Monthly Archives: June 2009

Do your friends make you smarter? Exploring social interactions in search

Thanks to Chris Messina for filming this video during my 3rd year talk (end-of-year presentation to my department)! The slides are available here.
Brief summary: in this talk I present some work that I’ve done (with collaborators at PARC) related to social search, or how social interactions and social resources help individual users during search activities. [...]

The Social Shirt: Memory on Your Sleeve

We have all experienced it: we go to introduce ourselves to someone new, only to learn that the person remembers us quite distinctly! How embarrassing! Or its milder cousin: we recognize someone but fail to recall their name, occupation, or the context in which we originally met them. Do we go re-introduce ourselves? How do [...]