about me
- i'm a second year phd student in
cognitive science at
uc san diego.
this past summer (2007), i was an intern at the palo alto research center
(PARC) as a member of the
human-information interaction group with Stu Card.
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- here's a link to my personal blog.
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- if you'd like to be in touch, email me at bmevans at cogsci dot ucsd dot edu.
general research interests
- ethnography for human-computer interaction design
- building a bridge between digital and physical media
- sensemaking and knowledge management
- social participation in online communities
- information visualization
- distributed cognition
current projects
- looking at how social web tools are changing the
way people communicate and share information with each
other (second year project)
- studying social search and social tagging in enterprises
(with Ed Chi)
- examining how individuals integrate new web
services, such as social bookmarking, with everyday
information assimilation practices (PARC internship)
previous projects
academic advisors
curriculum vitae