ed h. chi - PARC blog

ASC blog deprecated (moved to parc.com)

28 March 2011 | ed h. chi

This entry serves as a marker that the ASC Team blog is no longer active. From now on, PARC's social computing researchers will blog at: http://blogs.parc.com/blog/topics/social-computing/ Ed H. Chi has left PARC and became a Research Scientist ...

ASC blog deprecated (moved to parc.com)

28 March 2011 | ed h. chi

This entry serves as a marker that the ASC Team blog is no longer active. From now on, PARC's social computing researchers will blog at: http://blogs.parc.com/blog/topics/social-computing/ Ed H. Chi has left PARC and became a Research Scientist ...

Further details on ‘Location’ field behavior on Twitter

25 January 2011 | ed h. chi

There are of course a lot more details on the 'Location' field study in the previous post, which was covered by various press outlets (Seattle PI, AllThingD, ReadWriteWeb, NYTimes.) There are several further details that're worth pondering about: Fir...

Further details on ‘Location’ field behavior on Twitter

25 January 2011 | ed h. chi

There are of course a lot more details on the 'Location' field study in the previous post, which was covered by various press outlets (Seattle PI, AllThingD, ReadWriteWeb, NYTimes.) There are several further details that're worth pondering about: Fir...

"Location" Field in Twitter User Profiles (and an interesting fact about Justin Bieber)

18 January 2011 | ed h. chi

Interest in geographic information has intensified in the last year or two. One of the ways in which people obtain geolocation data is the decoding of the "Location" field during account sign-up. Many researchers have used this field for analysis of w...

Open data manipulation and visualization: Challenges

2 September 2010 | ed h. chi

I typically blog about research results here, but here is one post that's more conversational, and discussion oriented.  My good friend m.c. shraefel asked me a question via email: "What are 1 or 2 key priorities you think must be addressed that w...

Open data manipulation and visualization: Challenges

2 September 2010 | ed h. chi

I typically blog about research results here, but here is one post that's more conversational, and discussion oriented.  My good friend m.c. shraefel asked me a question via email: "What are 1 or 2 key priorities you think must be addressed that w...

Grounded research on Enterprise2.0: the creation of a social information stream browser

4 August 2010 | ed h. chi

For a number of years, because of our research group's context within a large corporation like Xerox, we have been studying the effectiveness of Enterprise2.0 tools. As Web2.0 consumer tools have changed over time, so has Enterprise2.0 tools. We rec...

Grounded research on Enterprise2.0: the creation of a social information stream browser

4 August 2010 | ed h. chi

For a number of years, because of our research group's context within a large corporation like Xerox, we have been studying the effectiveness of Enterprise2.0 tools. As Web2.0 consumer tools have changed over time, so has Enterprise2.0 tools. We rec...

Model-Driven Research in Social Computing

14 June 2010 | ed h. chi

I'm in Toronto attending the Hypertext 2010 conference, where I gave the keynote talk at the First Workshop on Modeling Social Media yesterday. I want to document a little bit of the points I made in the talk here. The reason we seek to construct and...