Kevin Lim's Library tagged research →  View Popular

A fun assortment of great quotes / ideas from TED 2009, thanks to Tara.

www.horsepigcow.com/...summary-of-amazing-ted-quotes - Preview

quotes ideas research abstract

Meet Alex Golub, Ph.D., an anthropology professor at the University of Hawaii. Golub plays a Resto Shaman in a Wrath-era raiding guild who's researching what he calls the culture of raiding -- "why people do something as crazy as run 25-mans four days a week."

www.wowinsider.com/...e-anthropologist-digs-into-wow - Preview

gaming anthropology research interview academic behavior culture warcraft

Who knew that AOL search logs would prove such a muse to artists? Two Dutch filmmakers follow the odd search engine entries of user 711391 as she tries to find love, escape from Houston, and kill those annoying birds in her yard.

arstechnica.com/...-i-love-alaska-short-films.ars - Preview

films video search anonymous art research

This ongoing research project investigates the changes that occur to weblogs (blogs) throughout their lifespan. It examines both the markers that indicate a particular phase of its existence in our emerging life cycle model and the drivers that move the c

portal.acm.org/citation.cfm - Preview

blogging adoption lifecycle research academic pdf

Continuous flight was demonstrated during a solar powered flight of more than 27 hours over 874.4 km what represents a Zürich-London trip. This is a world record for this size and using no thermal winds or altitude gain before the night.

www.sky-sailor.ethz.ch - Preview

uav solar drone transportation research

Via Howard Rheingold, HP's Social Computing Lab focuses on methods for harvesting the collective intelligence of groups of people in order to realize greater value from the interaction between users and information. Their research includes collective inte

www.hpl.hp.com/scl - Preview

crowdsourcing research socialmedia intelligence web2.0 internet academic socialnetworking

Bloggers are not a homogenous group, but they are an educated and affluent one: three out of four U.S. bloggers are college graduates, and 42% have attended graduate school. They skew male, and more than half have a household income over $75,000.

technorati.com/...who-are-the-bloggers - Preview

blogging research statistics demographic charts business

News reported on TV appears more credible than print newspaper, while online news edges in between. Interestingly, news media credibility is on a general decline.

people-press.org/report - Preview

newspapers tv news credibility research statistics

Great overview on the ethics of security / vulnerability disclosure. The ethics of full disclosure are intimately familiar to those of us in the computer-security field. Before full disclosure became the norm, researchers would quietly disclose vulnerabil

www.wired.com/...securitymatters_0821 - Preview

security research disclosure privacy business opensource law ethics news

A little sensationalistic, but worth reading as an online variation of traditional media effects.

www.medialifemagazine.com/...reat_Promiscuous_friending.asp - Preview

magazines socialmedia trends research ub

Renewed interest in political and social dynamics under authoritarian regimes. Relevant to my work on China's Internet and Democracy.

chronicle.com/...3644n.htm - Preview

china research internet social academia political

Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis.

services.alphaworks.ibm.com/...SgoRsIsOtha6bhEf6arzI2~ - Preview

visualization dataveillance research

Thanks to lightweight video cameras, producing eye-tracking hardware is now possible.

www.cis.rit.edu/...ETRA04_babcock_pelz.pdf - Preview

wearable cyberculture cyborg gadgets diy videos camera howto research technology usability

The game, called AudiOdyssey, simulates a deejay trying to build up a catchy tune and get people dancing. By swinging the remote-control device used by the Nintendo Wii, which senses motion, the player can set the rhythm.

web.mit.edu/...audio-game-0513.html - Preview

singapore music disability dance research gadgets

"All models are wrong, but some are useful." Thing is, models are still essential... they give us a sense of direction, and we can learn better from failure.

www.wired.com/...pb_theory - Preview

theory information science research internet

'Privacy' is an abstract and contentious notion. This document provides definitions of privacy and related terms, in a sequence that is intended to provide an introduction to the topic.

www.anu.edu.au/...Intro.html - Preview

privacy academia research identity dataveillance surveillance

An eBook reader that has two "pages". The two displays can be moved like a real book's pages to leaf through a document, or detached to compare and share virtual pages.

www.youtube.com/watch - Preview

videos youtube ebooks gadgets research usability design

"Old McDonald had a farm, and a Facebook account"... History repeatedly demonstrates that rural communities have unique technological needs. We know little about how rural communities use modern technologies, so we lack knowhow to design for them.

social.cs.uiuc.edu/...aper-the-network-in-the-garden - Preview

digitaldivide maps socialmedia internet research

Jan Chipchase, a design researcher for Nokia, travels the globe exploring how people use their mobile devices, discovering how to make them better, how to reach the billions of people who don't own a phone - and learning a whole lot about people along.

www.newscientist.com/...-cellphone-anthropologist.html - Preview

interview cellphones design research culture

Howard Rheingold's resources about attention and multitasking, references backchanneling.

www.socialtext.net/...index.cgi - Preview

backchannel attention academia research via:mento.info