Intellectual Property Law

Supernova2008 wrap-up talk

By Susan Crawford

Noshir Contractor of Northwestern:

“When you want to find out more about some person or some thing, or some concept, what do you do?”  Will you Google your question, or go to a web site you know about, or a person?  And if you find out who is an expert, will you go ask that person - or the lovable fool?  We’re really interested in the social motivation of searchers… and how we can embed those kinds of motivations into search tools.

Lots of social drivers for creating and sustaining communities.  Lots of projects investigating those social drivers.  Demonstrates searching from particular perspectives - not just expertise, but relationship between searcher and searched.  (If I know someone, he is more likely to return my call.)  Maybe search can be improved.

“As we think about multidimensional networks, let’s use social relationships in order to enhance search.”

Full post as published by Susan Crawford Blog on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).