Category Archives: status

status update (3/27/2008)

27 Mar 2008 – 15:41

You’re probably wondering: where the heck is Brynn Evans? Good question. I have been here and there and everywhere, but I haven’t been sitting idly. I’ve been working with Ed Chi at PARC to understand search in enterprises, and specifically how/where social search may help. Our approach has been to collect critical-incident style survey responses [...]

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weekly status update (3/10/2008)

10 Mar 2008 – 16:33

I continue to collect data from my second year project participants. I have 6 videos from participant 01  (5 hours of recorded desktop/online activity) and 2 videos from participant 02 (1 hour of recorded activity). Participant 03 has consented but has not yet shared any video recordings. Sadly, the individuals I had lined up as [...]

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weekly status update (3/3/2008)

3 Mar 2008 – 19:17

Not much to report. There are 3 confirmed participants in the study, one of whom has already shared some video clips of his online activity. It would be great to get a fourth participant (I’m working on it). Tim, Amanda, and I have been coding the videos we’ve collected so far. Each of us will [...]

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weekly status update (2/25/2008)

25 Feb 2008 – 14:30

This past week I coded and analyzed the 10 responses I received from the Mechanical Turk survey (PARC project). I’ve been re-writing the survey based on this preliminary data and plan to re-post to Mechanical Turk within the next week. I would like to supplement this survey data with a few in-person interviews, as well. [...]

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weekly status update (2/20/08)

20 Feb 2008 – 18:13

Yes, this isn’t exactly weekly at the moment. I’ve been pretty sick the past 2 weeks, although I’m not trying to make excuses. I am finally recovering, though. During the past 2 weeks at PARC, I wrote and piloted an interview on information sharing practices in the workplace. From it, I created a survey that [...]

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