Updates on Term Project

I found the College Student Experience Questionnaire and an article about a campus-wide focus on student experience. The following figure is from the article, and it provides a framework for thinking about students’ experience as a whole. I may adopt this model for my data analysis, though not data in every categorizes in this model …

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 …

#RAA5: Impact of Web Personalization on User Information Processing and Decision Outcomes

1. APA Citation: Tam, K. Y., & Ho, S. Y. (2006). Understanding the impact of web personalization on user information processing and decision outcomes. Mis Quarterly, 30(4), 865–890. PDF 2.  Purpose of the Research: To understand the impact of personalized content on user information processing and decision making, because little is known about the effectiveness …

Personalization: Machine Mirrors the Ugly Us that We don’t Want to See so We Blame the Machine

There is a fair amount of discussion that Google search, Amazon recommendation and Facebook streams are too much personalized and making us closed minded, the so called filter bubble or echo chamber effect. I’ve been thinking this for a while, and I have a new idea about what makes personalization and recommendation bad. It is …

RAA#4: Social Discovery

1. APA Citation Shneiderman, B. (2011). Social discovery in an information abundant world: Designing to create capacity and seek solutions. Information Services and Use, 31(1), 3–13. PDF 2. Definition: Social Discovery: the collaborative processes that promote creating capabilities and seeking solutions. “In its most ambitious form social discovery is the detection of new and important …

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~

Best Readings Recently

(1) Eli Pariser is wrong by Greg Linden  This is a reply to Eli Pariser’s idea of filter bubble. I feel this blog post is talking about the future of recommendation and personalization, that is, where recommendation and personalization should lead to. However, Eli Pariser is talking about the existing recommendation and personalization (how it …

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… …