INLS 180 Day 6 Notes

Oct. 5, 2005

 

Some notes on assignment for this week (EPIC)

 

Marshall and Wales talks

 

Project commitments

Julie, Amy, Carol: ideal man in movies (chick flicks)

Baasil & Angela: musical performance

Brian, Jessica, Michael: disadvantaged info seeking

Kathy, Bin, Yaxiao: cross cultural websites

Tracey, Peter, Jessica: religion and mass media

Jennifer, Rachael, Brian, Tessa: Katrina media treatment

Trisha, Lonelyss, Eric: low literacy health support interface

Fred: ClaimID

Meridith: ILS websites

Chris: global law influence on US courts

Gary: South Asia machine translation

TJ: online music stores

Emily: hypertext back links

Anuj, Tom: visualizing audio

 

 

  1. One minute papers

Points

Tradeoffs in indexing/representation methods

People change along with technology

Library intimidation

Dynamic content

 

Questions

Precision vs serendipity?

How to update librarians’ skills?

More on video, sound?

Can we adjust recall-precision parameters according to need on the fly?

Why don’t people give relevance feedback?

We are training google, can we train it better?

 

  1. Relevance as a central concept in ILS

 

 

 

  1. Discuss Readings

Harter: Group 6

                Schambler et al: Group 7

                Amento et al: Group 8

 

  1. Readings for next week

Fogg, BJ.(1999). Persuasive technologies.  CACM (ACM DL)

McInerney, C. (2002). Knowledge management and the dynamic nature of knowledge.  JASIST. 53(12), 1009-1018.

View and take notes on:  EPIC 2014.  http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/

Rosenfeld, L. Information architecture: Looking ahead.  JASIST, 53(10), 874-876. (online)

Lippincott, J. Met generation students and libraries (online)

 

Optional: Barreau (LISR)

Reeves, B. & Nass, C. (1996). The media equation: How people treat computers, television, and the new media like real people and places.  NY: Cambridge University Press. (Preface ix-xiii, Chapter 1 p 3-15, and Chapter 23 p251-256.)

 

4. One-minute paper concept

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?