This is a video of the talk I gave at the HCI2008 conference in Liverpool on 4th September 2008, entitled “News Not Noise: Socially-aware Information Filtering”.
I outline some of my key research findings regarding Facebook usage and suggest alternative interface concepts for browsing social news, making use of machine learning techniques and incorporating an understanding of social psychology.
For more details, please refer to the accompanying paper in Volume 2 of the conference proceedings, page. 115. The talk and paper are based on my undergraduate dissertation.
This talk won the Best Student Paper Presentation award for the conference.
Cool stuff … now have you actually programmed something around this? (Or are you going to?)
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No, sadly I didn’t have time. I created a digital prototype in Ruby on Rails to demonstrate the interface concept, but it would have been a lot more work to interface it to a social network. Now I’m working full-time on EasyEthical and so developing this isn’t really a priority.
Hey Jon – great talk. Just sent you a note with a bit more of my thoughts…
Good job! Very interesting. I would actually like to post this on FB but I think it would need to be edited to keep attention. Any chance of you doing that? In any event, you did a great job here.
Hi Sindy, I’m afraid I don’t have time to edit it down, but please feel free! I can let you download a high-quality video file if that helps?