Brynn Marie Evans

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) information on their computers. By asking participants to recall their last act, we hope to get a more accurate idea of their true behaviors; yet this is balanced by the fact that the last act may not be representative of their typical behaviors. However, through critical-incident prompting, we also hope to discover problems or set-backs users encountered in the process—these being the highly informative tidbits, regardless of whether the act as a whole was representative.

For both surveys, participants (with an Amazon.com account) must satisfy the following criteria:

• you work in a company, enterprise, or corporate organization
• most of the things you share and search for are in digital format (emails, digital documents, etc.)

Please fill out the survey(s) if you would like to tell us how you:

1. Search for information at work: http://moourl.com/rpuy4
2. Organize (label/tag) information at work: http://moourl.com/o0wiu

Thank you!!