Where Were You When I Needed You?

When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish

“A of us with backbones are ... the fi sh group,” realized Ray Troll somewhere in his understanding of evolutionary biology. Our hands are but an evolved version of fi ns. When you know this, “Then you start seeing the world in a different way.” This evolutionary connection fueled the artist’s imagination as well as his interest in the natural world and its origins, which rivals only his compul...

Even if I showed you where you looked, remembering where you just looked is hard

People know surprisingly little about their own visual behavior, which can be problematic when learning or executing complex visual tasks such as search of medical images. We investigated whether providing observers with online information about their eye position during search would help them recall their own fixations immediately afterwards. Seventeen observers searched for various objects in...

select * where { : I : trust : you }

Finding, accessing and consuming multimedia content on the Web is still a challenge. In this position statement we discuss three still widely neglected issues arising when one is interacting with multimedia content in social media environments: provenance, trust, and privacy. We will introduce a generic model allowing us to identify potential risks and problems, further discuss this model regar...

Mining Social Deliberation in Online Communication - If You Were Me and I Were You

Social deliberative skills are collaborative life-skills. These skills are crucial for communicating in any collaborative processes where participants have heterogeneous opinions and perspectives driven by different assumptions, beliefs, and goals. In this paper, we describe models using lexical, discourse, and gender demographic features to identify whether or not participants demonstrate soci...

When You Have Nowhere to Look, You Look Where You Can.