Monthly Archives: July 2008

Using Mechanical Turk for research

After Kittur, Chi, and Suh’s Crowdsourcing user studies with Mechanical Turk (CHI 2008), Ed Chi and I decided to run another study using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service. I finally tallied our “expenses” and response rate, and though it would be interesting to share.
Now, Ed and I were interested in learning something interesting about web search, [...]

Summary of Reboot10 talk: Distributed Cognition & The Social Web

Last week I decided to give (=was coerced into giving) a talk at Reboot10. I was apprehensive about talking because I didn’t know what to expect from this audience and felt I wouldn’t have anything interesting to say that they’d like to hear about! Well, I pondered this for a little while and realized that [...]

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Chris Messina’s talk at Reboot10

This was a live video stream of Chris’ talk at Reboot10 in Copenhagen on Jun 27, 2008: Free to Migrate. Pretty crazy that this was recorded from Jyri’s mobile phone while Chris was presenting
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