Posts Tagged ‘web science’
Observing Social Machines Part 1: What to Observe?
Posted by: clare on: May 13, 2013
Today marks the start of ACM WWW’2013, with this particular day bringing a doctoral consortium plus various tutorials and workshops. I’m not there myself, but I’m co-author of a paper that the one and only Dave De Roure shall present at today’s workshop on the Theory and Practice of Social Machines. The workshop itself is [...]
WebSci and the Two Hundred Cultures: slides online
Posted by: clare on: May 10, 2013
Hey there Internet! I’ve had requests for access to the slides of my WebSci’13 presentation about the representation of different disciplines within WebSci (a brief overview of the topic is here). The slides are embedded below: I’ll update this post on the weekend to include a link to the paper itself, and you can expect [...]
Web Science and the Two (Hundred) Cultures: Representation of Disciplines Publishing in Web Science
Posted by: clare on: May 3, 2013
Long-term readers may recall that at WebSci’12 last year, I published a paper on representation of disciplines in the Web Science conference series. It was motivated by the ongoing discussion and (at times) uncertainty in the WebSci community about the disciplinary composition of that community, and about defining Web Science itself. The paper explained this [...]
Have you done interdisciplinary work? A call for participation!
Posted by: clare on: May 2, 2013
Have you done interdisciplinary work? Perhaps you’ve worked in Web Science or a related area. Maybe you’re a sociologist who has studied societal impacts of the web, or a designer who has worked on web interfaces for groups. Perhaps you’re a psychologist, criminologist or sociologist with a long-running interest in web-related issues… or an economist, [...]
Recommended article: rethinking passwords
Posted by: clare on: March 15, 2013
William Cheswick‘s recent CACM article, Rethinking Passwords, is an excellent and timely read. As Cheswick points out, there is “an authentication plague upon the land”, with everyday internet users running dozens of accounts that all require passwords. Account providers often enforce inconsistent and incomprehensible rules about each of those passwords (“at least 6 characters, but [...]
Changing the world through HCI (and WebSci!)
Posted by: clare on: November 23, 2012
Ben Shneiderman visited the University of Southampton this week. Huzzah! I’ve been influenced by Ben’s writing over the last couple of years, particularly his article on Micro- and Macro-HCI, in which Ben calls for an understanding of experiences, emotions, aesthetics and social aspects. (Given that my doctorate concerned understanding social and emotional aspects of experience, [...]
SoFWIReD launch
Posted by: clare on: November 19, 2012
Today was pretty neat, as it brought the launch of SoFWIReD, Southampton Fraunhofer Web Science, Internet Research & Development. Let me quote them: The project goal is to develop a comprehensive, interoperable platform for data and knowledge driven processing of open data and to investigate aspects of Collective Intelligence. The insight generated in the project [...]
New things: seme4
Posted by: clare on: August 17, 2012
I promised an update about my latest endeavour post-Newcastle: I’m very pleased to be doing some work with seme4, a vibrant Linked Data company based in the south of England. This work is taking me back to my Southampton roots — I don’t think anyone can come away from Computer Science at the University of [...]
Web Science is a young adult! On WebSci12.
Posted by: clare on: July 19, 2012
Although almost a month has passed since WebSci’12 — and although I had to leave the conference early — I’d like to share my reflections on the day-and-a-half I spent there after the WebSci-Teach workshop. Friday 22 June: NetSci as WebSci, social networking, posters and more I was intrigued to find that Kleinberg’s WebSci opening keynote was [...]
Teaching Web Science: WebSci’12 workshop
Posted by: clare on: July 8, 2012
A couple of weeks have already passed since the WebSci’12 WebSci-Teach workshop. This was run by Stéphane Bazan, Su White and Hugh Davis, and concerned how we go about teaching Web Science in practice. Reasons to talk about this include the youth of the WebSci curriculum, the barriers of teaching across disciplines, and issues such as [...]
