- April 27, 2006
Dan Cosley (I think): Here are the takeaways I hope you will get from my talk: Artifacts of lasting value matter.Designing for contribution is interesting.Modeling value over time is useful.Intelligent task routing works. Communities like IMDB, RateYourMusic (35,000 people), and Wikipedia are building collective artifacts of lasting value. But not all communities succeed. Nupedia, how many smaller groups have faltered. Grouplens is kinda failing because everyone is using a different format. ...
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- April 26, 2006
Edward Bosma: My company, Océ, is a kind of Xerox for the Netherlands. We have >24,000 employees in 80 countries. At Océ we know how to design for use (fit to the task, make it easy to learn and efficient to use)... but this does not guarantee product success. Sometimes the product is not installed correctly, does not fit with how people work, etc. How do we design, not for use, but for experience We see experience with a product as a process. Identifying phases in this...
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- April 25, 2006
Alone Together Exploring the Social Dynamics of Massively Multiplayer Online Games is the title of a very interesting study of World of Warcraft (WoW) social dynamics by Nicolas Ducheneaut and collaborators. The talk was given in an overcrowded room. I was standing and couldn't take notes. Basically they used WoW's open API to scrape data about hundreds of thousands of players on five servers, registering who was present where and when and what character they were playing. The paper is surely...
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- April 25, 2006
(Notes from a talk about IBM's Dogear.)Social bookmarking is a central store, where you can put keywords (tags), discover via "pivot" browsing, and subscribe to link feeds. Going to the enterprise: (1) authentication (no anonymity - promotes more responsible work), (2) internet and intranet bookmarks, (3) support for both shared and private bookmarks (this was a subject of debate among us), (4) designed for remixing (REST and dogear api) Interface: select text, right-click and pick "Dogear...
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- April 25, 2006
(Jared Spool has been working on usability for eons. It's the second time I've run into him in Montreal. Entertaining speaker. I wrote down the points that stood out for me.)Scent is what users are looking for. Scent should be reinforced as you get closer to what you're looking for. The three-click rule - "everything must be reachable in three clicks" is bunk. On most ecommerce sites you need four clicks to do anything. Users tolerate clicking more if they get reinforcement along the...
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- April 24, 2006
This year the CHI conference is experimenting with how the (impressively heavy, 8-track wide, and that's just the papers) day schedules are presented to attendees, and they came up with a refreshing idea. Every morning they will line up 42 speakers to present 21 hours' worth of scholarly content, each being alloted 40 seconds to attract listeners to their talk. The end product is packaged as the CHI Madness session. I find the idea deeply clueful. This gives people an occasion to briefly pitch..
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- April 24, 2006
The CHI conference is in my hometown this week, and Socialtext is graciously sending me downtown to learn some stuff. Intuit founder Scott Cook opened the conference. Here are my notes from his talk.Update: what follows is more of an impressionistic transcript; Antonella Pavese put up a really nice "annotated reconstruction" of Scott Cook's CHI talk, complete with pictures and all - go see it!Speaker intro (paraphrased): In 1984 Scott Cook founded Intuit, which makes the famously successful...
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