archive for July, 2009

PARC Innovations Update (2009 #3)

29 July 2009 | Editor

[e-newsletter archive ~May-July 2009]: New www.parc.com; solving problems important to the public; flexible electronics; white paper on innovation models; more...

Augmented Reality: Increasing collective intelligence

23 July 2009 | Lawrence Lee

Search engines like Google have trained us to believe we can find the answer to any question. Now activity streams from Twitter, Facebook, and others are changing our expectations around information yet again. We now demand information in real-time that’s socially and contextually relevant. Contextual information transforms our interactions within our physical environment... This area of research is called Augmented Reality, and it spans a wide spectrum of applications...

PART 1: The slowing growth of Wikipedia: some data, models, and explanations

22 July 2009 | ed h. chi

In September of 2008, we blogged about a curious change in Wikipedia that we didn't know how to explain that we had known for a while, and the ASC group has been looking into understanding this change in the last 6-9 months or so. The change that we w...

Experimenting on Mechanical Turk: 5 How Tos

21 July 2009 | Markus Jakobsson

Performing human-subjects experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk offers many benefits, including very low experiment costs, quick turn-around rates, and relatively simple approvals from human subjects boards. But you have to be careful to avoid bias and error...

Social attention and interactions are key to learning processes

20 July 2009 | ed h. chi

I just finished reading a long article in the journal Science on how social factors are increasing recognized as extremely important in a new science on learning [1].Learning is fundamentally a social activity, the article partially argued. "Social cu...

Social attention and interactions are key to learning processes

20 July 2009 | ed h. chi

I just finished reading a long article in the journal Science on how social factors are increasing recognized as extremely important in a new science on learning [1].Learning is fundamentally a social activity, the article partially argued. "Social cu...

Historical Roots behind TagSearch and MrTaggy

17 July 2009 | ed h. chi

Boing Boing recently covered our work on TagSearch algorithm, and the MrTaggy prototype. We built the prototype to show how ideas from search in the past are relevant in the new world of "social search".Boing Boing published the following response aft...

Historical Roots behind TagSearch and MrTaggy

17 July 2009 | ed h. chi

Boing Boing recently covered our work on TagSearch algorithm, and the MrTaggy prototype. We built the prototype to show how ideas from search in the past are relevant in the new world of "social search".Boing Boing published the following response aft...

Visualization used to improve team coordination

13 July 2009 | ed h. chi

This past Thursday I spent some time at IBM Almaden research center to attend the NPUC conference, which focused on the future of software development. In computing, software development is one of the most energy intensive collaborations, and often re...

Visualization used to improve team coordination

13 July 2009 | ed h. chi

This past Thursday I spent some time at IBM Almaden research center to attend the NPUC conference, which focused on the future of software development. In computing, software development is one of the most energy intensive collaborations, and often re...