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About: Gene Golovchinsky

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Sr. Research Scientist at FXPAL. Interested in information seeking, dynamic hypertext, collaborative search, e-books, freeform digital ink annotation, human-computer interaction, photography, wine, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Follow me on Twitter at @HCIR_GeneG

Posts by Gene Golovchinsky:

• The Copenhagen Interpretation, 02 Sep 2010 in Information seeking

  The IIiX conference series (the latest installment of which took place recently at Rutgers University) arose from IRiX (Information Retrieval In conteXt) workshops (2004, 2005) held in conjunction with SIGIR 2004 and 2005. The workshops were organized by what I think of as the Scandinavian contingent of the IR community — the likes of Peter [...]

• Searching deeper, 01 Sep 2010 in Information seeking

  Daniel Russell wrote up a nice summary of my search for the origins of Daniel  Tunkelang’s name. Daniel R. drew two lessons from the exercise: one, that social search (although I would say the social was bordering on the collaborative, in this case) can be effective because it integrates insights of multiple people; and two, [...]

• Gaming learning, 31 Aug 2010 in Education and outreach& human-computer interaction

  If you’re in the business of conveying information to people, you might be interested in engaging their interest to cause them to seek out more information and to deepen their understanding of the data. That’s the premise that Nick Diakopoulos is trying to explore with some interactive visualizations of demographic data.
  Nick (a former FXPAL Intern) [...]

• App as silo, 30 Aug 2010 in ebooks& human-computer interaction

  A little while ago I wrote about the lack of details in reports of iPad/eBook use for education; I am happy to point to an article that gets it right. Joel Mathis surveyed some recent efforts by universities to use the iPad to replace some more traditional educational materials. He reported on some specific apps [...]

• HCIR Search Challenge, 26 Aug 2010 in Information seeking& human-computer interaction

  The fourth HCIR workshop was held this past weekend at Rutgers University in conjunction with the IIiX 2010 conference. This was, in my opinion, the best workshop of the four so far. Part of the strength of the workshop has been the range of presentations, covering more mature work in traditional 30 minute presentations, a [...]

• Comments and annotations, 25 Aug 2010 in human-computer interaction

  While traveling I have been doing more work on my iPad, some of which I had previously done on paper or on my laptop. I’ve been reading and reviewing conference papers, making UI design sketches, and writing longer chunks of text such as this blog. The experience has been informative, but not altogether positive.

• Tablets for learning, 24 Aug 2010 in Education and outreach

  I recently found an interesting collection of student literature review/position papers from Umeå University related to a range of CS and HCI issues, including mobile technology, ubiquitous computing, table-top displays, etc. Among them was a paper by Alan Larsson that examined the role that slate-like tablet computers can play in education. It examined requirements for [...]

• Session-based search slides, 20 Aug 2010 in Information seeking& human-computer interaction

  Here are the slides of the presentation I gave at the IIiX 2010 conference. I presented work done in collaboration with Jeremy Pickens on session-based search. The paper is here; the talk highlights some of the theoretical considerations and gives some examples of the new interface we’re building.

• IIiX2010 Doctoral Consortium, 19 Aug 2010 in Events& Information seeking

  The IIiX 2010 Doctoral Consortium was a rather intense ten hours filled with great ideas and discussion. We had 11 students and six advisers, representing a broad range of universities and areas of interest related to information seeking. Each student made a 20-25 minute presentation, followed by questions from the advisers and from other students; [...]

• Proof?, 17 Aug 2010 in Computer Science& scientific publishing& social impact of technology

  For those of us with a passing (or greater) interest in algorithms, last week was particularly interesting: Vinay Deolalikar circulated a paper that attempted to prove P≠NP. This is one of the great unsolved problems in Computer Science, and its solution has some important implications for real-world problems such as keeping your money in your [...]