You’re probably wondering: where the heck is Brynn Evans? Good question. I have been here and there and everywhere, but I haven’t been sitting idly.
I’ve been working with Ed Chi at PARC to understand search in enterprises, and specifically how/where social search may help. Our approach has been to collect critical-incident style survey responses from [...]
I continue to collect data from my second year project participants. I have 6 videos from participant 01 (5 hours of recorded desktop/online activity) and 2 videos from participant 02 (1 hour of recorded activity). Participant 03 has consented but has not yet shared any video recordings. Sadly, the individuals I had lined up as [...]
I’ve been working with Ed Chi to refine our social search inquiry. We’ve decided to collect critical-incident style survey responses from Mechanical Turk to two separate, but related, topics: 1) enterprise search, and 2) enterprise tagging. For each survey, we ask that participants provide details about the last time they searched for or tagged/labeled/saved (digital) [...]
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 for an [...]
Not much to report. There are 3 confirmed participants in the study, one of whom has already shared some video clips of his online activity. It would be great to get a fourth participant (I’m working on it).
Tim, Amanda, and I have been coding the videos we’ve collected so far. Each of us will review [...]
