I am in the process of cleaning some data I collected in late 2002 as part of a media comparison experiment. The task in the experiment was to play “Taboo”, in same-gender pairs, in four different media conditions. The third independent variable, in addition to gender and media type, was a rudimentary manipulation of common [...]
Posts under ‘common ground’
conversation, conventions, common ground
Assuming for the moment that tagging and naming files is a kind of referential communication task, I have been looking at literature related to grounding and convention to try to find out what is known about how people are able to understand each other in conversation. My purpose is to design a better experiment. Some [...]
common ground
working on our submission to ASIS&T is leaving me little time to write about other stuff. however, i did ‘take a break’ yesterday to find a few papers about common ground that might be helpful for designing the experiment. where ‘a few’ really means eight papers. i am trying to find different ways researchers have [...]
tagging experiment
just a few quick thoughts on a tagging experiment before i get to the real work that i have to do today. the purpose of the experiment would be to find out whether a few of factors that we suspect affect interuser agreement (one dependent variable) actually do. the factors (independent variables) are: common ground [...]
sampling del.icio.us
so it seems like there might be a way to get del.icio.us to return random URLs. it isn’t clear to me how “random” they might be, and i guess there’s truly no way of knowing for sure short of asking Y!… anyway, this link http://del.icio.us/recent?random&min=10 brings up a random web page recently posted by someone [...]
