I have been reading some papers and learned a new concept called "swift trust" and its importance on the success of a temporary team to achieve its goals.I was wondering if anyone heard this term before or read an intersting paper about it related to wiki.
I am interested in looking at my anchored discussion research from social network perspective. I was wondering if anyone has conducted a social network analysis in a collaborative learning environment. Social network analysis basically says that the cohesion of a collaborative group, group members' roles, and power relations influence the outcome of learning. So my idea is to investigate whether anchored discussion could influence these elements for a better collaborative learning environment.
Summary of:
; "Autistic Social Software", The Best Software Writing I, Apress (2005) pp. 35-45.
Danah Boyd is a Ph.D. student in Judith Donath's Social Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. Her argument should be familiar: it's the agile software methodology manifesto from the perspective of social software, detailing why current design methodology does not work. Seems like an indictment of positivist design of social software.
The author claims that the way that social software (Friendster, LinkedIn, etc.) is designed to be used models how autistic people or people with Asperger's Syndrome are taught to engage in social interactions: programmatically. "Step by step, we dissect social affect and try to formalize it so that these kids can understand the world" (p. 3). Current social software codifies social interaction in much the same way, but this does not fit anyone's actual needs, and in fact people will typically try to find ways around the built in social interaction rituals (p. 4-5), if they do not abandon the product altogether.
The paper suggests that designers should design social software around how people actually interact (using a user-driven iterative design methodology (p. 6)) instead of rigidly modeling poorly understood behaviors and offering the resultant product to people to use.
Summary of:
; "Autistic Social Software", The Best Software Writing I, Apress (2005) pp. 35-45.
Danah Boyd is a Ph.D. student in Judith Donath's Social Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. Her argument should be familiar: it's the agile software methodology manifesto from the perspective of social software, detailing why current design methodology does not work. Seems like an indictment of positivist design of social software.
The author claims that the way that social software (Friendster, LinkedIn, etc.) is designed to be used models how autistic people or people with Asperger's Syndrome are taught to engage in social interactions: programmatically. "Step by step, we dissect social affect and try to formalize it so that these kids can understand the world" (p. 3). Current social software codifies social interaction in much the same way, but this does not fit anyone's actual needs, and in fact people will typically try to find ways around the built in social interaction rituals (p. 4-5), if they do not abandon the product altogether.
The paper suggests that designers should design social software around how people actually interact (using a user-driven iterative design methodology (p. 6)) instead of rigidly modeling poorly understood behaviors and offering the resultant product to people to use.
I've been doing a couple of things over the last two weeks:
I've been doing a couple of things over the last two weeks:
Looking through my bookmarks from a month or so ago, I remembered that I had seen an interesting approach to enabling colloborative authoring (really collaborative editing, as in what editors do as opposed to writers) from the people at the Institute for the Future of the Book. I remembered that Kate and Evren have been interested in collaborative authoring, so I post it here.
CommentPress is a WordPress theme that allows readers to add comments to each paragraph of a document. Comments made on a paragraph appear in a column to the right of the body of the text, aligned with the paragraph, so that the reader can read the document and see the comments relatively in situ. The makers of CommentPress intend authors to post long works (articles or books) in sections to a CommentPress site, and then to invite people to comment much as an editor would, paragraph by paragraph in the context of the text. Alternatively, the author can invite comenters to give very targeted comments, and then readers to read the text less like the post and response of blogging and somewhat more like a conversation, or a text with related and well-situated sidebars.
As a collaborative editing paradigm, I think it would be interesting to compare how effective this is compared with the Wikipedia :Talk pages (see also [1]), with which comments are closely associated with the text being written, but are not visible while one is reading the text.
[1] ; ; ; ; "Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia", System Sciences, 2007. HICSS 2007. 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on, (2007) pp. 78-78.
Looking through my bookmarks from a month or so ago, I remembered that I had seen an interesting approach to enabling colloborative authoring (really collaborative editing, as in what editors do as opposed to writers) from the people at the Institute for the Future of the Book. I remembered that Kate and Evren have been interested in collaborative authoring, so I post it here.
CommentPress is a WordPress theme that allows readers to add comments to each paragraph of a document. Comments made on a paragraph appear in a column to the right of the body of the text, aligned with the paragraph, so that the reader can read the document and see the comments relatively in situ. The makers of CommentPress intend authors to post long works (articles or books) in sections to a CommentPress site, and then to invite people to comment much as an editor would, paragraph by paragraph in the context of the text. Alternatively, the author can invite comenters to give very targeted comments, and then readers to read the text less like the post and response of blogging and somewhat more like a conversation, or a text with related and well-situated sidebars.
As a collaborative editing paradigm, I think it would be interesting to compare how effective this is compared with the Wikipedia :Talk pages (see also [1]), with which comments are closely associated with the text being written, but are not visible while one is reading the text.
[1] ; ; ; ; "Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia", System Sciences, 2007. HICSS 2007. 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on, (2007) pp. 78-78.
Check out Lee Lefever's cool videos: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=commoncraftshow&search=tag
Check out Lee Lefever's cool videos: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=commoncraftshow&search=tag
Well... SISATSpace Phased II has ended and Phase III has started with a bang, with the Welcome New Community member Week on SISATSpace...
Well... SISATSpace Phased II has ended and Phase III has started with a bang, with the Welcome New Community member Week on SISATSpace...
Since the last meeting i was able to create a new community for new users: http://claremontconversation.org/tcourse/helpdesk/.
i also uploaded a number of screencasts...
Since the last meeting i was able to create a new community for new users: http://claremontconversation.org/tcourse/helpdesk/.
i also uploaded a number of screencasts...
Information visualization will probably be a core component of my research, and so I'm getting to know the big names in the field and their work. Edward Tufte's ("Tufte" is pronounced tuff-tee, not tooft) work has been a resource to me for several years. He is a primal force in information visualization, and his beautiful books are referenced commonly in papers which propose or use visualization tools or techniques. Prof. Tufte (he is professor emeritus at Yale University) has made a mission of educating people on how to honestly, clearly, and effectively present information. He is also famous his strong opinions on PowerPoint, starting with his analysis of a briefing slide uncovered during the space shuttle Columbia explosion investigation. Tufte's analysis shows how the poor information carrying capability of PowerPoint played a part in failing to prevent the disaster. [ Read More about this on my website ... ]
Information visualization will probably be a core component of my research, and so I'm getting to know the big names in the field and their work. Edward Tufte's ("Tufte" is pronounced tuff-tee, not tooft) work has been a resource to me for several years. He is a primal force in information visualization, and his beautiful books are referenced commonly in papers which propose or use visualization tools or techniques. Prof. Tufte (he is professor emeritus at Yale University) has made a mission of educating people on how to honestly, clearly, and effectively present information. He is also famous his strong opinions on PowerPoint, starting with his analysis of a briefing slide uncovered during the space shuttle Columbia explosion investigation. Tufte's analysis shows how the poor information carrying capability of PowerPoint played a part in failing to prevent the disaster. [ Read More about this on my website ... ]
Throughout my twenty-ish years in academics (as an undergraduate and master's student at UVa; as staff at Caltech; and as a Ph.D. student at Claremont Graduate University), I've learned much about choosing topics of study through talking with researchers, observing the choices graduate students have made and the outcomes that resulted, and through reading books like The Craft of Research . Now that I'm facing having to write papers and a dissertation of my own, I wanted to distill what I've learned into guidelines and write them down as reminders so that I don't lead myself astray over the coming years. [ Read More about this on my website... ]
Throughout my twenty-ish years in academics (as an undergraduate and master's student at UVa; as staff at Caltech; and as a Ph.D. student at Claremont Graduate University), I've learned much about choosing topics of study through talking with researchers, observing the choices graduate students have made and the outcomes that resulted, and through reading books like The Craft of Research . Now that I'm facing having to write papers and a dissertation of my own, I wanted to distill what I've learned into guidelines and write them down as reminders so that I don't lead myself astray over the coming years. [ Read More about this on my website... ]
http://www.eigenfactor.org/map/index.html
Shows links between different disciplines, along with the top 10 journals in each field. Useful for looking thru reference discipline top journals for ideas / references / common models.
And another neat article (esp. for Peter)
Miura, A., & Yamashita, K. (2007). Psychological and social influences on blog writing: An online survey of blog authors in Japan. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(4), article 15. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/miura.html
We conducted a questionnaire survey of personal blog authors (N=1,434) and examined two hypothesized models using structural equation modeling to clarify the psychological and social process associated with why authors continue to write their blogs. Two final models with good fit were obtained. It was confirmed that being satisfied with benefits to self, relationships with others, and skill in handling information had significant positive effects on the intention to continue blog writing. The psychological traits of private self-consciousness, reassurance-seeking, and information need were hypothesized to be effective in establishing consciousness of the benefits; these also had significant positive effects. In contrast, only positive feedback had a significant influence on satisfaction related to information handling skill, whereas both negative and positive feedback had significant influences on satisfaction related to information handling skill. This suggests that communication with readers who gave positive feedback strongly encouraged blog authors to continue writing. Similarities and differences between the two models and recommendations for further theoretical development are discussed.
Okay, this is not exactly my first post ever. However, I figure that on a lab update topic, I will try to slip in something.
I am currently working on two things. First, I am cleaning up a paper on the results from last year's transdisciplinary experiment. At the moment, I am working off-line as I scratched and write on a paper printout. I am also going to look into structural equation modeling as an alternative to regression. Second, I am putting together my ideas about a dissertation.
Both of these files have been uploaded to the file gallery, and I am always open to comments. The dissertation proposal is only two pages (hint, hint).
1. Paper - Sorry, this was too big. I'll find another way to post it.
This paper presents a design research project adapting Elgg, an open source social networking package, for use in graduate education. The modified software represents an alternative model to the traditional course management system, using blogs & wikis...
