Appendix III: Samoan Civilization as It Is Today
Summary: The author talks about how modern society has influenced Samoa and how Samoa managed to still keep much of its culture intact.
Discussion: Most stories I have heard of modern society influencing others have led to the loss of culture. It is interesting to see that for the most part that is not the case in Samoa.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Book Reading #41: Why We Make Mistakes
Chapter 2: We All Search for Meaning
Summary: The author talks about how we rarely remember meaningless things such as names, but are quite good at remembering meaningful things such as faces. He gives several examples to illustrate this point such as a case where a man was mistakenly convicted of attempted murder even though the woman who was assaulted felt that she couldn't see the emotion she remembered in the mans face.
Discussion: This was an interesting read and I really liked the examples. The penny example came up in another book we read and I still couldn't remember the details of the penny.
Chapter 3: We Connect the Dots
Summary: The author discusses how aspects like color or price can change our memory or opinions of things even if they are actually the same.
Discussion: I found the wine story very amusing. Its interesting that he notes that people weren't just being snobby and that there is a real connection between price and perception.
Summary: The author talks about how we rarely remember meaningless things such as names, but are quite good at remembering meaningful things such as faces. He gives several examples to illustrate this point such as a case where a man was mistakenly convicted of attempted murder even though the woman who was assaulted felt that she couldn't see the emotion she remembered in the mans face.
Discussion: This was an interesting read and I really liked the examples. The penny example came up in another book we read and I still couldn't remember the details of the penny.
Chapter 3: We Connect the Dots
Summary: The author discusses how aspects like color or price can change our memory or opinions of things even if they are actually the same.
Discussion: I found the wine story very amusing. Its interesting that he notes that people weren't just being snobby and that there is a real connection between price and perception.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Paper Reading #14: Eddi: Interactive Topic-based Browsing of Social Status Streams
Comments:
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Reference Information:
Title: Eddi: Interactive Topic-based Browsing of Social Status Streams
Authors: Michael S. Bernstein, Bongwon Suh, Lichan Hong, Jilin Chen, Sanjay Kairam, Ed H. Chi
Venue: UIST
Summary:
In this paper the authors describe Eddi, an interactive topic- based browsing system for social status streams. In a nutshell, Eddie prunes through tweets in order to associate them with various topics. The motivation for this is that users are currently faced with an overwhelmingly large number of tweets and no good way of sorting through them to read what the user finds interesting. Eddie uses callouts to a search engine in order to find relevant topics within the tweet. After declaring a tweet to these topics they are displayed on the screen in different fonts with the largest fonts having the largest number of tweets on that topic.
Discussion:
Comment 1
Comment 2
Reference Information:
Title: Eddi: Interactive Topic-based Browsing of Social Status Streams
Authors: Michael S. Bernstein, Bongwon Suh, Lichan Hong, Jilin Chen, Sanjay Kairam, Ed H. Chi
Venue: UIST
Summary:
In this paper the authors describe Eddi, an interactive topic- based browsing system for social status streams. In a nutshell, Eddie prunes through tweets in order to associate them with various topics. The motivation for this is that users are currently faced with an overwhelmingly large number of tweets and no good way of sorting through them to read what the user finds interesting. Eddie uses callouts to a search engine in order to find relevant topics within the tweet. After declaring a tweet to these topics they are displayed on the screen in different fonts with the largest fonts having the largest number of tweets on that topic.
Discussion:
While I do believe that this is an interesting solution to a problem that many people who use twitter may have, I generally frown upon any technology that gives people any more reasons to spend countless hours on twitter or facebook. I believe too many people use facebook and twitter far too often and in order to tell the world of even the most mundane activities in their life. The fact that there is even a need for a program that can sort through twitter posts such as "I am now in the living room" is kind of sad.
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