Notes on papers, books and blogs about Cognitive Ergonomics, HCI, philosophy of design and everything interesting
The age of the Google Man is upon us! Great work by Michael Wesch (of The Machine is Us/ing Us fame), shows how search (and search literacy) has altered the landscape and shattered hierarchies.
http://www.youtube.com/?v=-4CV05HyAbMInformation R/evolutionTags: search, information, netculture, cyberpunk, anthropology, ethnography
I’ve uploaded the short (following Guy Kawasaki’s rule) presentation I gave in OpenCoffee IV. It was an interesting event and the presentations showed that something IS moving. Onic’s especially was inspiring even for me, a conservative non-entrepreneurial kind of person.
Thanks to the OpenCoffee Athens organizers for the great event!
Tags: opencoffee, greek, athens, conference, […]
Guillaume Cabanac is conducting an ambitious experiment on the automatic evaluation of discussion threads on web annotation systems. Web annotation systems are an interesting premise that could make the web more interactive. The problem is that the results are often messy and unusable. This experiment is part of an effort to reduce this mess.
The ultimate […]
Caught a glimpse of the stealth startup askmarkets, which runs on algorithms developed by fellow NTUA alumni and friend George Tziralis. Even in an alpha state it seems impressive, and sounds like the perfect way to take the empirical experiments made by the likes of Taleb a step further: social.
Another paper submitted for the alt.chi 2007 conference. This comes from PARC and is a study of the del.icio.us website using metrics based on entropy.
Their results are interesting:
The efficiency of social tagging is decreasing. The efficiency of social navigation affored by the tagging system is decreasing Users overlap in places they visit more strongly than before
These results […]
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