Okay, the third and final (?) set of CHI Highlights, consisting of brief notes on some other papers and panels that caught my attention. My notes here will, overall, be briefer than in the other posts. More papers We’re in It Together: Interpersonal Management of Disclosure in Social Network Services Airi Lampinen, Vilma Lehtinen, Asko [...]
Also tagged chi, chi2011, design, researchFor my second post on highlights from CHI this year, I’m focusing on papers related to opinion diversity and discourse quality. Normative influences on thoughtful online participation Abhay Sukumaran, Stephanie Vezich, Melanie McHugh, Clifford Nass Two lab experiments on whether it is possible to foster more thoughtful commenting and participation by participants in online discussion [...]
Also tagged chi, chi2011, design, diversity, empathy, homophily, politics, research, serendipityLast week I presented our first Sidelines paper (with Daniel Zhou and Paul Resnick) at ICWSM in San Jose. Slides (hosted on slideshare) are embedded below, or you can watch a video of most of the talk on VideoLectures. Opinion and topic diversity in the output sets can provide individual and societal benefits. If news [...]
Also tagged algorithm, BALANCE, diversity, icwsm, news, politics, recommender systems, research, sidelinesIn early September, I attended WikiSym 08 in Porto, Portugal, so this post is nearly two months overdue. In addition to presenting a short paper on the use of a wiki to enhance organizational memory and sharing in a Boeing workgroup, I participated on the WikiFest panel organized by Stewart Mader. Since then, a couple [...]
Also tagged collaboration, cscw, research, wikiLibby Hemphill and I are hosting a roundtable discussion at the 2008 iConference, hosted by UCLA, at the end of February. Professional students, whether undergraduates or masters’ students, represent a significant portion of the iSchool community. How do iSchools effectively educate those students while continuing to develop successful research programs? This roundtable discussion will focus [...]
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