#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 …

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 …

RAA#2: A Semantic Content-Based Recommender System Integrating Folksonomies for Personalized Access

1. APA Citation: Lops, P., Gemmis, M., Semeraro, G., Musto, C., Narducci, F., & Bux, M. (2009). A Semantic Content-Based Recommender System Integrating Folksonomies for Personalized Access. In G. Castellano, L. C. Jain, & A. M. Fanelli (Eds.), Web Personalization in Intelligent Environments (Vol. 229, pp. 27-47). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Retrieved from http://www.springerlink.com.login.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/content/e6603207661850m7/ …

RAA#1: Whither the Experts?

1.The paper analyzed here: Welser, H. T., Gleave, E., Barash, V., Smith, M., & Meckes, J. (2009). Whither the experts? Social affordances and the cultivation of experts in community Q&A systems. 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (pp. 450–455). PDF 2. Definitions: Social affordances: refers to the properties of an object or environment …