In case you’re curious what I’ve been reading…
Augmented Information Assimilation: Social and Algorithmic Web Aids for the Information Long Tail
This is a video of my talk at CHI 2008, of my work with Stu Card looking at how users integrate new World Wide Web services, such as social bookmarking, with everyday information assimilation practices
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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 [...]
In case you’re curious what I’ve been reading…
Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus
Clay Shirky gives a great talk on “cognitive surplus,” or how much freaking free time people actually have. What do they do in this free time? Well, a whole heck of a lot is spent watching TV…but more and more, people are participating in [...]
About Brynn Evans
I just finished the second year of my PhD program in Cognitive Science at UC San Diego. I've been studying how people use social web services for information sharing, discovery, and sensemaking.
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“My CDs had become this snapshot of who I was, like carrying around a driver's license with a 5 year-old photo.”
– Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
4 February 2006
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