Augmenting Social Cognition: From Social Foraging to...

Google Tech Talks
February 15, 2007

ABSTRACT

The emergence of Social Web has resulted in a spectrum of collaborative information environments. These social software span from systems with lightweight collaboration that identify faddishness of information (digg.com) to heavyweight collaboration systems that produce encyclopedia content (Wikipedia). We are interested in understanding the emerging behavior in social software, particularly how they enable social search, foraging and sensemaking.

We summarized initial results from PARC's Augmented Social Cognition research project, where we studied both Wikipedia and del.icio.us to characterize their evolution.

Speaker

Ed H. Chi is a senior...

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From a member of the bourgoisie users, with no formal education on ICT, and total ignorance on software designing, I found your chat fascinating and brilliantly exposed. A charmingly understated and highly intelligent speaker!