Current Projects
- Looking at the relationship between online social networks
and "real life" social connections. In collaboration with Peter Pirolli.
- Looking at how a small group of friends used social web
services (Flickr, Ma.gnolia, and Twitter) for information sharing
and discovery. (2nd year project committee: Jim Hollan, Ed Hutchins, and David Kirsh).
- Studying the role of social interactions in search (a social
search project). In collaboration with Ed Chi.
- Examining how early adopters made use of emerging
information assimilation services on the web, such as social
bookmarking, as part of their daily routine, including how they
exploit online information environments to reduce the need for
attention, organizational, and social sharing acts. In
collaboration with Stu Card.
Previous Projects