CHI Paper: Feed me: motivating newcomer contribution in social network sites

Filed under: CHI, Publication, Social Computing by David Karger on Tuesday, 7 April 2009 | No Comments

Moira Burke at al. from facebook studied what led new users to post more over time—in terms of feedback from those how saw their posts, how broadly they were distributed, etc.  They counted what happened over someone’s first two weeks on facebook and predicted what would happen over the next 3 months.  They considered variables [...]

CHI Paper: It Feels Better Than Filing

Filed under: PIM, Publication by David Karger on Tuesday, 7 April 2009 | No Comments

Stephen Voida presented “It Feels Better than Filing: Everyday work experiences in an activity-based computing system”.   ABC deprecates the folder hierarchy in favor of a mechanism for associating files (and other objects) with specific activities.   The user specifies which activity they are undertaking, and the system materializes the items ssociated with that activity.   Activity [...]