Community Street - Social Thoughts and Art World Thoughts

Thoughts on Social Design

Improving the ART-Testbed, thoughts and reflections

The Agent Reputation and Trust (ART) Testbed initiative was launched with the goal of establishing a testbed for agent reputationand trust-related technologies. This initiative has lead to the delivery of a flexible/modular prototype platform to the community. After two years and four successful competitions, several issues have arisen that require some attention to maintain the focus of the te...

Social Preferences: Some Thoughts from the Field

This review steps back from the burgeoning economics literature on measuring social preferences and considers more carefully the empirical evidence from the lab and the field. I place the claims from the ardent supporters of the literature into three bins: one for claims that are supported by the data upon closer scrutiny, one for claims that are not supported by the data upon closer scrutiny, ...

Diagrams about Thoughts about Thoughts about Diagrams

The study of diagrammatic reasoning often focuses on computational models of diagram use rather than on studies of human performance. This paper considers diagrams as a notational system that can be used and studied in an experimental context. It presents a review of the experimental psychology literature rather than a complete theoretical framework, and is intended as an introduction to the fi...

Parting Thoughts

It has been said that there is no stronger urge than the urge to edit someone else's writing. Upon my retirement from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and concurrently from my position as co-editor-in-chief of Environmental Health Perspectives, I find that perhaps the stronger urge is not to edit but rather to editorialize. Therefore, I would like to provide some...