Brynn Marie Evans

Monthly Archives: August 2009

When is a questionnaire just a survey?

26 Aug 2009 – 22:17

I asked a question on twitter today: Do you consider “surveys” to be different from “questionnaires”? If so, how? This question struck me as I was editing a paper where I was describing a survey (or is it a questionnaire?) that we used to collect data from Mechanical Turk. I was about to use the [...]

By brynn | Posted in research | Tagged data, questionnaire, research, survey | Comments (4)

Digital anthropology panel at SXSW’10

18 Aug 2009 – 9:21

I’m involved in another panel proposal at SXSW’10. As before, we need your votes! This panel is called: Practical Digital Anthropology: Getting to Know Your Users. The panel description and list of questions that we’ll cover is below: Most modern analytics attempt to boil complex behaviors down to statistics; but is that the whole story? [...]

By brynn | Posted in research | Tagged digital anthropology, ethnography, panel, sxsw, user research | Comments (1)

Social search panel at SXSW’10

17 Aug 2009 – 19:34

Sanjay Kairam and I submitted a beginner’s panel proposal on social search to SXSW’10. But in order to present the panel, we need to get a lot of community votes! Even if you’re not going to SXSW next year, you can vote and your vote will count! Click here to vote! A short description of [...]

By brynn | Posted in social search | Tagged google, interactive, panel, personalization, real-time search, social search, sxsw | Comments (0)

Why people can’t be trusted: What we say is not what we do

10 Aug 2009 – 14:01

I’ve been reading Bill Tancer’s book Click. He works for a company called HitWise that has access to millions of search terms from across the web — by finding trends in these queries, he claims that we can learn about people’s actual motivations, interests, behaviors, and, even, fears. A word before I go on: I generally [...]

By brynn | Posted in design, social | Tagged bill tancer, click, fear of, survey, survey data, user research | Comments (1)

Bodystorming the betacup

6 Aug 2009 – 11:27

Here’s the video from our bodystorming exercise at Overlap09. We were trying to illustrate how our early betacup prototype could reduce paper cup waste and encourage eco-friendly behaviors among consumers. We’d love for any and all feedback! The betacup Bodystorming Session – Overlap 09 from The betacup on Vimeo.