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Terms of Service, Ethics and Bias
Data mining researchers, application builders, and social scientists want to collect and analyze data about your activities online. But when do we cross the line...
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Time Travel Is Now Possible
I will be reporting on two of the sessions I attended this afternoon. One session was on analyzing interactions, which dealt primarily with methods for measuring...
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Clay Shirky: Doing Work, or Doing Work?
In a keynote delivered to this year's ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), author and academic Clay Shirky captured the distinction between...
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Paucity to Plethora: Jevons Paradox
I suspect much of computing is still socially conditioned by its roots in computational paucity to recognize fully the true opportunity afforded by computational...
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Third Workshop on Search and Social Media (SSM 2010)
Report on Third Workshop on Search and Social Media (SSM 2010).
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The DARPA Network Challenge and the Design of Social Participation Systems
What have we learned from the DARPA Network Challenge and the design of social participation systems? The principal concern for designers of social participation...
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The Ghosts of Holiday Shopping: Past, Present and Future
In many parts of the western world, the frenzy of holiday shopping has reached its crescendo. With apologies to Charles Dickens, it is instructive to consider...
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The Rise of the External Brain
From an entirely unexpected source, we begin to realize the dream of an external brain that supplements our knowledge, wisdom, and memories.
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Better GPS Software Through User Feedback
I appreciate my GPS software can tell me where I am, but it should get better at predicting where I will go.
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What the Cloud Means For HCI
The CTO roundtable on cloud computing article in a past issue of CACM made me start thinking about what cloud computing really means for HCI and how people will...
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Impact of the Social Web on Computing Research
Scientists from diverse fields are feeling the impact of Social Web systems and are publishing research papers that characterize, model, prototype, and evaluate...
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Collaborating Across Boundaries
In a global world, collaboration and communicating with colleagues in different geographical locations is becoming critically important. What kinds of tools can...
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Collective Intelligence: a Fad or Real Research?
A recent trend in HCI research is the extension of the long time goal of augmenting human intelligence to "augmenting social intelligence." That is, enabling not...
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Student Research Competition at Grace Hopper
Highlights of the top six posters/presentations at the Student Research Competition
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Smartphones and Health Systems Research at Intel Seattle
The ubiquity of smartphones and their increasing ability to collect and transmit information will lead the way for the next advances in health monitoring and improvement...
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