Writings

  1. B.M. Evans. Social Search can't be Solved by an Algorithm. pp. 245-247, in Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce Success, by Greg Nudelman. Wiley, 2011. (Buy the book!)
  2. B.M. Evans. When Facebook comes to Work: Understanding the Work Practice of the Digital Native. Chapter 1 in Dancing with Digital Natives: Staying in Step with the Generation that's Transforming the Way Business is Done. CyberAge Books, 2011. (Chapter 1 PDF; Buy the book!)
  3. B.M. Evans and E.H. Chi. Tell Me About Your Problems: An Analysis of Search Failures and Social Interactions. in submission. (email for a copy of the manuscript)
  4. B.M. Evans and E.H. Chi. An Elaborated Model of Social Search. Information Processing and Management, 46(6), pp. 656-678, 2010. (PDF; Journal link)
  5. B.M. Evans, S. Kairam, and P. Pirolli. Do Your Friends Make You Smarter?: An Analysis of Social Strategies in Online Information Seeking. Information Processing and Management, 46(6), pp. 679-692, 2010. (PDF; Journal Link)
  6. B.M. Evans, S. Kairam, and P. Pirolli. Exploring the Cognitive Consequences of Social Search. In Proc. Computer-Human Interaction (CHI'09), ACM Press, pp. 3377-3382, 2009. Student Research Competition [2nd place]. (PDF)
  7. B.M. Evans and E.H. Chi. Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search. In Proc. of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW'08), ACM Press, pp. 485-494, 2008. (PDF)
  8. B.M. Evans and S.K. Card. Augmented Information Assimilation: Social and Algorithmic Web Aids for the Information Long Tail. In Proc. of Computer-Human Interaction (CHI'08), ACM Press, pp. 989-998, 2008. (PDF)
  9. K.J. Meador, A. Gevins, S.W. Loring, L.K. McEvoy, P.G. Ray, M.E. Smith, G.K. Motamedi, B.M. Evans, and C. Baum. Neuropsychological and Neurophysiological Effects of Carbamazepine and Levetiracetam. Neurology, 69, pp. 2076-2084, 2007. (PDF)

Blog posts

  1. 6-8-5. Gamestorming blog; May 17, 2011.
  2. Party Invitations. Gamestorming blog; August 16, 2010.
  3. Doing More with Remote Research: Exploring Physical and Social Contexts. Co-authored with Julie Melton. UX Magazine, August 17, 2010.
  4. iPad vs. iPhone: A User Experience Study. Co-authored by Nate Bolt, Brynn Evans, Cyd Harrell. UX Magazine, June 10, 2010.
  5. Using Remote Research to Inform Social Interaction Design (SxD). Bolt|Peters blog, February 2, 2010.
  6. Putting the Craft in Design Thinking. Unstructure, January 30, 2010.
  7. Social Shopping: Putting the Emotion Back in E-Commerce. ReadWriteWeb, December 4, 2009.
  8. Three Flavors of Social Search: What to Expect. ReadWriteWeb, November 12, 2009.
  9. Why There's Nothing to Fear in Social Search. ReadwriteWeb, October 27, 2009.
  10. Social Relevancy Rank: What's Missing? ReadWriteWeb, July 26, 2009.

Conferences

  1. Bootcamp for a UX Team of None. South by Southwest, March 2012. (Panel description)
  2. Overlap 2011 (co-organizer with Krista Sanders)
  3. Session on Comics for Storytelling and Sketching 101. SketchCamp SF, San Francisco, CA, May 2011. (Also co-organizer of the event.)
  4. 1up! Games for Change. South by Southwest, March 2011. (Panel description; Slides)
  5. Session on Comics for Storytelling. DrawCamp, Milwaukee, WI, June 2010.
  6. Two sessions on Bodystorming and No Bullshit User Research. FOO Camp East, May 2010.
  7. Social Search: A Little Help From My Friends. South by Southwest, March 2010. (Slides; Summary; Podcast)
  8. Digital Ethnography for Social Interaction Design [REMIX]. User Research Friday, February 2010. (Slides)
  9. Digital Ethnography for Social Interaction Design. Yahoo! Research Group, December 2009. (Slides)
  10. Aiming for Innovation: Living Design in a Business World. (Co-presented with K. Sanders). BayCHI, December 2009. (Slides; BayCHI Podcast and a CHI Conversation)
  11. Designing for Sociality in Enterprise Search. (Co-presented with W. Evans). Enterprise Search Summit West, November 2009. (Slides; Articles written about the talk: Searching for Social; Social Work: Friend or FOE?)
  12. Do Your Friends Make You Smarter? Exploring Social Interactions in Search. IBM Almaden Research Center, USER Seminar, July 2009. (Slides)
  13. Do Your Friends Make You Smarter? Exploring Social Interactions in Search. Cognitive Science Dept. at UCSD, June 2009. (Slides; Video)
  14. Exploring the Cognitive Consequences of Social Search. (Co-authors: S. Kairam and P. Pirolli). CHI'09, April 2009. (Slides; 30-sec Madness Video)
  15. Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search. (Co-author: E.H. Chi). CSCW'08, November 2008. (Slides; Summary)
  16. Distributed Cognition and the Social Web. Reboot 10, June 2008. (Slides; Video; Summary)
  17. Augmented Information Assimilation: Social and Algorithmic Web Aids for the Information Long Tail. (Co-author: S.K. Card). CHI'08, April 2008. (Slides; Video)

Workshops

  1. Gamestorming in Primary Education (by me & Andy Dahley), at the SF Friends School. Feb 9, 2012. San Francisco, CA.
  2. Enterprise Social Search Workshop (by me & Will Evans), at Bolt | Peters. May 7, 2010.
  3. Design sketching and implementation, at ZURB. May 8, 2010.
  4. Leaving Flatland: Designing Services and Systems Across Channels, at IA Summit 2010. April 8, 2010. (my review [blog post])
  5. Using User Research, at Creativity and Cognition. B.M. Evans. "Using data to inform social design." October 27, 2009. (PDF)
  6. The Social Web Workshop, (co-organizer). Workshops by Chris Messina & Jyri Engestrom. October 2009. (Background: "The Web at at New Crossroads")
  7. Designing Interactivity with Arduino, at UCSD. May 2, 2009.
  8. Sensemaking Workshop, at CHI. April 4-5, 2009. (Summary)
  9. Search in Social Media, at CIKM. B.M. Evans and E.H. Chi. "Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search." October 30, 2008. (PDF)
  10. Collaborative Information Retrieval, at JCDL. B.M. Evans and E.H. Chi. "Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search." June 20, 2008. (PDF)

Posters

Miscellaneous (unpublished) writings