My goal lately has been to construct coherent sentences about my research interests. Ha! Sounds so simple. With lots of ideas bouncing around in my head, it’s been hard to narrow my focus. I know my focus needs to become even more clear, but here are a few paragraphs of something that I am eliciting [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about what social search is, what it means, does it matter if we all use it to refer to different things? (I highlighted a few of the different ways it’s being used in commercial applications towards the end of this talk I gave at BarCamp in San Diego this weekend.)
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Today I gave a talk at the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) conference in San Diego in the Social Sensemaking track. It was called: “Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search” (in collaboration with Ed Chi).
My slides are posted here and I’d welcome any further discussion, commentary, or questions on the talk or of “social [...]
(This was also posted on the ASC blog.)
There has been a lot of buzz around social search in the online tech community, but I am largely disappointed by the new tools and services I’ve encountered. It’s not that these sites are unusable, but that they each seem to take on a different conception of what [...]
