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, conference, 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, conference, diversity, empathy, homophily, politics, research, serendipityOn Monday, I had the pleasure of visiting Malcolm McCullough’s Architecture 531 – Networked Cities for final presentations. Many of the students in the class are from SI, where we talk a lot about incentive-centered design, choice architecture, and persuasive technology, which seems to have resulted in many of the projects having a persuasive technology [...]
Also tagged mindful technology, persuasive technology, researchWhen preparing our Persuasive 2010 paper on Three Good Things, we ended up cutting a section on using word clouds to support reflection. The section wasn’t central to this paper, but it highlights one of the design challenges we encountered, and so I want to share it and take advantage of any feedback. Our Three [...]
Also tagged research, social software, three good things, word cloudsThere’s a lot to like about the recent changes to Facebook, but, as an application developer, many of the changes are a mixed bag. Changes to navigation and to interaction points between Facebook and applications are problematic, while new application privacy features are a good start but seem incomplete. Navigation to Apps Formerly, the application [...]
Also tagged facebookA month or so ago, Cory Doctorow wrote a column about how your “creepy ex-co-workers will kill Facebook,” and introduced what he calls “boyd’s law:” Adding more users to a social network increases the probability that it will put you in an awkward social circumstance. I think there’s an important corollary: adding more features and [...]
Also tagged contacts, facebook, gmail, google, gtalk, privacy, social softwareThis is a quick and very late heads up about Ken Erickson’s participation in a panel organized by Dori Tunstall at AAA this morning. The below description is cribbed from Dori’s blog: Anthropologist Ken Erickson explores the world of FAA and Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations in the design of Boeing airplanes accessible to [...]
Also tagged aircraft, boeing, government, policyFor my final project in Network Cities (ARCH531), I worked with Garin Fons and Amy Grude to explore urban flows. We propose a system that enables sidewalks to respond to you and the people who came before you. As you walk through a city, the ground underfoot glows. Intense, extended glows show the most common [...]
Also tagged place, siFor one of our Networked Cities projects, we were asked to explore urban markup. While looking at existing projects, my teammate David Hutchful and I got the feeling that tagging spaces is a pretty crowded space. Tagging or otherwise marking people with the intent of learning more about them or feeling more connected to them [...]
Also tagged identity, place, siThe phrase “alone together” came up in a couple of different contexts this week. In both instances it was expressed as being physical with other people participating in a solitary activity: checking email at Starbucks, flying without talking with your seatmates, and the like. This is not unlike Ducheneaut’s use of the phrase alone together [...]
Also tagged community, place