Brynn Marie Evans

Category Archives: research

Methods for cognitive task analysis

20 Sep 2008 – 16:28

Peter Pirolli and I are designing a study where we want to do a cognitive task analysis of people’s sensemaking processes. Verbal protocol analysis (most commonly introspective, retrospective, and think-aloud) may help us understand the process people engage in while they find, synthesize, and assimilate new information as part of a broader sensemaking task.
Modeling cognitive [...]

By brynn | Tagged cognitive science, cognitive task analysis, sensemaking, talk-aloud, verbal protocol | Comments (1)

Just how virtual are virtual social networks?

19 Sep 2008 – 20:30

I’ve been working on a social sensemaking project with Peter Pirolli at PARC. In the process of designing it, we realized that there were smaller pieces of the puzzle, so to speak, that could be investigated one at a time. The results I’m reporting here are from a study looking at just how virtual today’s [...]

By brynn | Tagged facebook, friends, real life, social network, twitter | Comments (1)

If you are who you “follow” …..

8 Sep 2008 – 11:41

…then I should be into design, technology, business, twitter, web 2.0, social, and social media.
As a Cognitive Science/HCI person studying social media, that’s pretty close My friend Mike Krieger produced this from a little experiment he did last weekend. The idea is simple:

Take a Twitter user’s friends (who they follow).
Look at each of [...]