thesis log

Last but not least

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:10:47 -0400

Since this blog’s last post I’ve finish my masters with an 19 out of 20 and started working as a User Experience Designer.

I’m leaving this blog online as a keepsake from my thesis. If you want to keep up with me and my work drop by www.chezbern.com

D. Boyd on the effects of law, market and social norms on privacy

Tue, 04 May 2010 06:21:22 -0400

D. Boyd on the effects of law, market and social norms on privacy

busy busy week

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:38:55 -0400

It’s been quite a busy week for us. I’ll post all the news when the dust settles.

We’re about to reach a huge milestone :)

f8: new developer policies

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:58:00 -0400

Facebook announced a critical change in their developer policies. They are taking off a data storage/caching policy that went something like this “Applications can’t store user data for more than 24h”. This basically means anyone who can put up a facebook app can store data about you. And when I say data I mean demographics, posts, friends, etc etc.. All in all, this represents yet another stab on user privacy by Facebook.

Good news is, our data crawler app is now legal and compliant!

user research: stand-by

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:30:00 -0400

We are taking one step back in our user research. We hope it will allow us to take two steps forward in the design and implementation phases. Apart from optimizing and automating the data collection software, we’re also re-thinking the foundations of our survey. Coming up with more focused hypothesis and questions will hopefully yield us stronger and more valid requirements for our design. Tasos, an assistant researcher for the WeSP project at M-ITI is being a great help in this stage, so big thanks to him.

We’ll be back full throttle and with great news in no time, stay tuned.

user research: update

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:23:46 -0400

quantitative data collection is ready. Thanks Jayant!

Meetings, meetings & meetings..

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:57:14 -0400

I’m back in Madeira for a week and having a lot of meetings over at M-ITI. So, expect a considerable amount of developments and some good news too.

Lorrie Cranor, a privacy expert (from whom I read a lot of papers for my literature review)...

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:12:00 -0400

Lorrie Cranor, a privacy expert (from whom I read a lot of papers for my literature review) installed poStory!

Presentation

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:28:52 -0400

Today I’m giving a presentation about my project at the Psychology Faculty here in Seville. Read more here.

Wish me luck!

user research: live!

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:03:00 -0500

Our two initiatives to collect user data are live. Feel free to help us in any way!

postory — Facebook app to collect quantitative data

Survey — Survey on posting practices

user research

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:37:40 -0500

The user research we are performing for the project will start asap. As I said in previous posts we are going to gather quantitative and qualitative data. Come back soon to know how we are going to do this :)

read the buzz around Madeira

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:03:00 -0500

read the buzz around Madeira

Iterating, iterating..

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:40:00 -0500

We’re still tweaking the survey and thinking about another way to collect data. This time, quantitative data :)

Collecting user data

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:16:00 -0500

As we want to have a short design process we decided to run an initial survey to inform our design decisions. I’ll share a link here as soon as the survey is up and running.

mid-term report: done!

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:34:21 -0500

My mid-term report is done and I will publish it here soon. The next step is still on the making but it will be a decisive one.

I’ll keep this updated as soon as I have something more solid.

"Technologies of connectivity will dissolve the mapping between activities and places and everyplace..."

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:31:22 -0500

“Technologies of connectivity will dissolve the mapping between activities and places and everyplace will be for everything all the time.”

- Agre P.

literature review + report

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:43:23 -0500

I’ve finished the better part of my readings and took 17 pages worth of notes and references. Ok, mostly references :)

I’m gonna start on the mid-term report due in the first week of January. Want to finish it asap so I can try and submit it to a conference somehow. Actually moving on to something other than reading and writing would be good enough.

Launch

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:17:41 -0500

Hey everyone, I’ve been cooking and pimping up this blog for quite a while and decided to launch it today.

Any feedback?

"Facebook gives the ‘gift’ of infinite social information, but this can feel too much like the One..."

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

“Facebook gives the ‘gift’ of infinite social information, but this can feel too much like the One Ring – precious upfront, but destructive long-term.”

- danah boyd

david: Patrick Moberg lol, not sure if I agree but :)

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:07:49 -0500

david:

Patrick Moberg

lol, not sure if I agree but :)