Comments on: Mediating Information – What Does That Mean? http://www.thingsontop.com/mediating-information-737.html Search User Experience Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:59:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Writing a Book on Search User Experience - Things On Top http://www.thingsontop.com/mediating-information-737.html/comment-page-1/#comment-2223 Writing a Book on Search User Experience - Things On Top Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:08:54 +0000 http://www.thingsontop.com/?p=737#comment-2223 [...] want to write an e-book about search user experience, based on some of my latest blog posts (and all the great discussions they have sparked). I started writing this summer, and that is [...] [...] want to write an e-book about search user experience, based on some of my latest blog posts (and all the great discussions they have sparked). I started writing this summer, and that is [...]

]]> By: Vegard Sandvold http://www.thingsontop.com/mediating-information-737.html/comment-page-1/#comment-279 Vegard Sandvold Wed, 06 May 2009 10:58:11 +0000 http://www.thingsontop.com/?p=737#comment-279 Hi Jeremy! Thanks for the feedback. I'm learning a lot about collaborative search from our discussions. Hi Jeremy! Thanks for the feedback. I’m learning a lot about collaborative search from our discussions.

]]> By: jeremy http://www.thingsontop.com/mediating-information-737.html/comment-page-1/#comment-273 jeremy Wed, 06 May 2009 00:08:36 +0000 http://www.thingsontop.com/?p=737#comment-273 I must disagree with you putting Explicit Collaborative Search into the (primarily) user mediated category. One of the main focuses of my research has been intentionally and exactly the opposite. See this paper: "Algorithmic Mediation for Collaborative Exploratory Search" http://www.fxpal.com/publications/FXPAL-PR-08-460.pdf When I (along with Maribeth Back and Gene Golovchinsky) started developing this a few years ago, the whole reason for doing so was to get away from the type of information seeking that happens as a result of collaborative filtering. But yes, I agree with the use of the "mediation" dimension. See also: http://palblog.fxpal.com/?p=274 I must disagree with you putting Explicit Collaborative Search into the (primarily) user mediated category. One of the main focuses of my research has been intentionally and exactly the opposite. See this paper: “Algorithmic Mediation for Collaborative Exploratory Search”

http://www.fxpal.com/publications/FXPAL-PR-08-460.pdf

When I (along with Maribeth Back and Gene Golovchinsky) started developing this a few years ago, the whole reason for doing so was to get away from the type of information seeking that happens as a result of collaborative filtering.

But yes, I agree with the use of the “mediation” dimension. See also: http://palblog.fxpal.com/?p=274

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