One enduring core value in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research has been the development of technologies that augment human intelligence. This mission originates with V. Bush, Licklider, and E...
I try to read the Economist regularly, but it's hard to keep up because each issue is so good. I just came across an article in the Economist from Jan 10th 2008 issue talking about using the frequ...
One of the distinguishing features of social media has been that it enables communications of one-to-one, as well as one-to-group and one-to-large-many. Twitter now reports that it is faster than ...
I'm at University of North Carolina attending a NSF-sponsored workshop on Information Seeking Support Systems with some pretty high-powered researchers like Sue Dumais (Microsoft), Jan Pedersen (Ya...
Given the rise in popularity of social tagging systems, it seems only natural to ask how efficient is the organically evolved tagging vocabulary in describing any underlying objects? The accumulat...
Tagging systems such as del.icio.us and Diigo have become important ways for users to organize information gathered from the Web. However, despite their popularity among early adopters, tagging sti...
PARC Forum: May 1, 2008, 4:00 p.m., George E. Pake Auditorium, Palo Alto, CA ,USAEnhancing the Social Web through Augmented Social Cognition researchEd Chi, PARC Augmented Social Cognition grou...
One of the great things about the Web is that all this knowledge that is socially constructed and co-created can be easily searched. The PageRank algorithm (based loosely on a collective voting an...
One problem we have been facing as HCI researchers is how to get user data such as their opinions or relevance judgements quickly and cheaply. I think we may have a good way of doing this with Ama...
As mentioned previously, Premal Shah of Kiva.org recently spoke at the PARC's special speaker series on "Going Beyond Web2.0". During the talk, Premal gave many great stories of how Kiva got start...
Charlene Li of Forrester recently came to PARC and gave an excellent talk on the transforming power of social applications on businesses. She defined the "groundswell" as the "social trend in whic...
We're conducting ethnographic interviews on Wikipedia use, to help us create better tools for both readers and editors. Share your experiences and give us your opinions! The interview takes about a...
Premal Shah, the President of Kiva.org, is speaking at PARC tomorrow, and I'm really excited. Kiva.org is a non-profit organization that provides microloans to individuals in the developing world....
The PARC Forum Speaker Series called 'Going Beyond Web2.0' that ASC organized will continue to release video recordings of the talks at:http://www.parc.com/events/forum/archive.php.The first talk b...
In our research on Wikipedia, we have been using a broad framework published as an one-page article in CACM (Communication of the ACM) in 2005 by Denning et al. on the perceived risks in using Wiki...
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