Reading Reflection on “The 4th Paradigm of Science”

First of all, I’m really saddened by the missing of Jim Gray at sea. I’d like to express my deep condolences to him, and the recently missing MH370 plane, and all other planes and boats that have gone missing in the ocean. According to this reading, the 4 paradigms of science are experimental, theoretical, simulation (computational) and data-intensive …

Reading Reflection: Where does the “Natural” Come from in Natural Design?

This week’s CGT512 reading chapter1 of “The Design of Everyday Things” by Donald Norman emphasizes natural design. For example, doors have to be designed with proper visual clues so that people will naturally know which side to open and close the door, as well as to pull or push the door. I understand that for relative simple …

Qualitative Spirit

I am deeply confused by many things this semester, and I felt I am almost near a breaking point at some moments. One reason is that I felt I am oppressed by some beliefs about conducting scientific research that are contradicting with part of my value system, but I don’t know how to defend myself …

Reflection on the Dark Side Presentation

First of all, I think we are very brave to try out one class remotely. It is very important experience for a class studying the Internet. I don’t know whether previous students in this class have tried remote classes or not, I hope Dr.V could let students in the future continue to try, although it …

RAA#3: CommentSpace, Collaborative Visual Analytics

APA Citation: Willett, W., Heer, J., Hellerstein, J., & Agrawala, M. (2011). CommentSpace: structured support for collaborative visual analysis. Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 3131–3140). PDF CommentSpace website Purpose:  (1) Present details of a web-based collaborative visual analysis system CommentSpace that aims to help users better make …

Revisit One of My Old Posts

http://ene4cindychen.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-parallel-computing-mind.html I wrote this at Valenti’s day this year. Still looks a brilliant post~

Reading reflection: Attention

I will mention why I put this video here at the end of this post. I briefly summarize a few papers and add some of my thoughts following each two papers. 01. Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our Brain,  by Nicholas Carr Claim (argument): The Internet is changing our …

Reading Reflection: An Idea for Academic Reading Videos

I made this video on one of our reading this week. As I was reading that paper, I was making graph in my mind, so I really had an “impulse” to make a video. It’s not a very polished video, there are pulses in my speaking here and there, because I didn’t write a script… …

Reading Reflection: Crowdsourcing

I’ve been trying to investigate how to leverage the power of crowdsourcing to bring insight into understanding an emerging academia field. I put academic papers of Engineering Education Research on Amazon Mechanical Turk and ask turkers to read and tag them. From the result of a pilot test, I feel the foreseeable outcome probably will …

Reading and Discussion Reflection: Online Identity

In a recent Tech621 Social Internet class, we talks about concepts and issues related to online identity, self-presentation, impression management, etc. 1. One big name to mention when we talk about identity performance is E. Goffman. Goffman’s book “The Presentation of Self” was written in 1959, but it is still worth to consider even when …