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Impact of the Social Web on Computing Research
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Palo Alto Research Center Research Manager Ed H. Chi
Scientists from diverse fields are feeling the impact of Social Web systems and are publishing research papers that characterize, model, prototype, and evaluate such systems. Researchers are seeing a surge of new research on Web2.0 technologies distributed in a wide variety of disciplines and associated conferences.
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(2)Good article. It's true about all the new research being done on Web 2.0. I am on a team of researchers working on building a social networking game web app that will help us analyze social interactions between Computer Science students and help the students be more interactive. This is a big job from an HCI standpoint so we are collaborating between our HCI Lab and our Game Lab on this. Our web app would be somewhere in between Lightweight and Heavyweight Collaboration because we use Tag network analysis heavily. It's good to see articles that reflect my research so closely.
@Marvin: The desire to interact more is innate, so the rise of the social web is not surprising, but its speed is what was amazing. Helping computer science students to interact more will help them understand this very important trend in computing.
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