Brynn Marie Evans

Monthly Archives: February 2008

weekly status update (2/25/2008)

25 Feb 2008 – 14:30

This past week I coded and analyzed the 10 responses I received from the Mechanical Turk survey (PARC project). I’ve been re-writing the survey based on this preliminary data and plan to re-post to Mechanical Turk within the next week. I would like to supplement this survey data with a few in-person interviews, as well. [...]

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links on ma.gnolia

24 Feb 2008 – 1:02

In case you’re curious what I’ve been reading… Coding Horror: Every User Lies The “paradox of the active user” is a paradox because users would save time in the long term by learning more about the system. But that’s not how people behave in the real world, so we cannot allow engineers to build products [...]

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weekly status update (2/20/08)

20 Feb 2008 – 18:13

Yes, this isn’t exactly weekly at the moment. I’ve been pretty sick the past 2 weeks, although I’m not trying to make excuses. I am finally recovering, though. During the past 2 weeks at PARC, I wrote and piloted an interview on information sharing practices in the workplace. From it, I created a survey that [...]

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links on ma.gnolia

17 Feb 2008 – 1:02

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Following the KPBS Twitter feed (part II)

15 Feb 2008 – 16:40

After interviewing KPBS about their Twitter activity during the San Diego fires, I was curious to hear from individuals who actually used the Twitter stream for updates. In addition to my posting here, I posted a few questions on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk about how people found and used the Twitter stream. The questions and a [...]