Text Archives - mediaX at Stanford University https://mediax.stanford.edu/tag/text/ Industry Affiliate Program of Stanford’s H-STAR Institute Wed, 28 Nov 2018 17:47:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Trust, Reputation, and Anonymity in Peer to Peer Publishing and Content https://mediax.stanford.edu/research-projects/omc-goel/ Mon, 19 Nov 2018 22:00:30 +0000 https://mediax.stanford.edu/?page_id=11281 From The Theme ONLINE MEDIA CONTENT WHAT IF What if we could develop a truly fair, comprehensive and anonymous mechanism for assigning reputation ratings to self-published work online? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to explore reputation systems, with a focus on the feasibility of algorithmic techniques that address the issues of […]

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]]> Designing Technologies that Mediate Human Social Interaction: Strategies for Effective Cooperation and Collaboration https://mediax.stanford.edu/research-projects/kwp-nass/ Mon, 19 Nov 2018 20:48:28 +0000 https://mediax.stanford.edu/?page_id=11262 From The Theme
 KNOWLEDGE WORKER PRODUCTIVITY WHAT IF What if we could develop a theory of “social affordances” (properties of technologies that shape online social interaction, personal judgment, and social decision-making) to better understand and even predict the effects of media design choices on behavior? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to […]

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]]> Spatial Meaning Constraints in Visual Language Reading https://mediax.stanford.edu/research-projects/scs-tversky/ Fri, 16 Nov 2018 19:12:14 +0000 https://mediax.stanford.edu/?page_id=11094 From The Theme SOCIAL AND COMPUTING SCIENCES WHAT IF What if we could study how people process text and images in order to better understand the parameters of visual language? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to explore the perceptual constraints available for processing meaning from the textual and spatial features of […]

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]]> ShowMeTellMe: Multimodal Learning Experience Mediated by the Future Interactive Paper TextBook https://mediax.stanford.edu/research-projects/ahct-law/ Wed, 30 May 2018 14:35:00 +0000 https://mediax.stanford.edu/ahct-law-fruchter/ From The Theme ADVANCED HUMAN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES WHAT IF? What if learning materials could support input, feedback and interaction between users – learners, instructors, authors, mentors etc? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO Input, feedback, and interaction among learners, instructors, mentors and authors are key to facilitating questioning and thinking. Using a scenario-based approach, this […]

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]]> Transparent Social Footprints https://mediax.stanford.edu/research-projects/pod-heer/ Wed, 30 May 2018 14:35:00 +0000 https://mediax.stanford.edu/pod-grimes/ From The Theme PUBLISH ON DEMAND WHAT IF What if we could help media companies increase revenue by tracking the “social footprints” of their audiences? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We wanted to examine the requirements needed to develop prototypes for metrics and tools to support media organizations in the shift from print to […]

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]]> Recasting the Textbook https://mediax.stanford.edu/research-projects/pod-wineburg/ Wed, 30 May 2018 14:35:00 +0000 https://mediax.stanford.edu/pod-wineburg/ From The Theme PUBLISH ON DEMAND WHAT IF What if active engagement in building stories of history helped students evaluate the sources of information and better understand the perspectives from which history is written? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We recast the history textbook as an edited on- demand, collaborative collection of historical narratives. […]

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]]> Smarter Scholarly Texts https://mediax.stanford.edu/research-projects/pod-willinsky/ Wed, 30 May 2018 14:35:00 +0000 https://mediax.stanford.edu/pod-willinsky/ From The Theme PUBLISH ON DEMAND WHAT IF What if we could streamline academic article production for both authors and publishers through the use of extensible markup language in an assisted automated system? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO Our goal was to develop a scholarly article parsing toolchain that would include a parsing engine, […]

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]]> Kindred Britain 2.0 – Can We Walk the Past’s Streets https://mediax.stanford.edu/research-projects/meldw-jenkins/ Wed, 30 May 2018 14:35:00 +0000 https://mediax.stanford.edu/meldw-jenkins/ From The Theme MEMORY, ESTATE AND LEGACIES IN A DIGITAL WORLD WHAT IF What if we could create a multidimensional, dynamic and interactive visual infographic, combining data on people, time and space to track the evolution of concepts, relationships and ideas? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO Our goal is to leverage a curated and […]

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