Haystack Blog

I attended the VISSW 2011 workshop last sunday.  It was fun, but a few of the papers exhibited a painfully familiar pattern: they put together a plausible-seeming user interface but didn’t evaluate it with a user study.  I left frustrated, with no sense of whether the ideas of the interfaces would be good or bad [...]

A few weeks ago, I finished writing a thought piece with Mark Ackerman, Ed Chi, and Rob Miller about the state of systems research in social computing. It grew out of conversations with a lot of researchers in the area, and examines questions of novelty, evaluation, and the industry/academia question in the field. I submitted [...]