jxe

academic fields to start

CS, HCI, CSCW

activity-centric networking (cs/systems)

The early internet was conceptualized as a network of hosts, and newer approaches present a network of content. We explore a third tack, organizing and navigating the internet as a network of activities for users. Hosts, content, and services may contribute to activities and may present the same or similar/substitutable activities. Metadata like duration and desires-fulfilled becomes important to the organization of the internet, and new modes of browsing are possible. Extensions to FB Open Graph and a web rendering based on the CommonCrawl.org open web crawl are presented. {demos: GLDB crawler; No Regrets chrome extension; Lifeworthy feed labeling; Opportunities API}

Signaling the possibility of rapport (hci, urban planning, psych)

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"An opportunity to notice more"
nab many players
ask them:
    Can I give you a little mission to do in your next session?
release unless yes:
    Okay.  That's it for today, then.
pick adjective from sad, green, red, absurd, quiet, lovely, yucky, or bright
tell them:
    Ok.  Over the next 45m see if you can notice something in the room.  

jxe

# mix in to a mongo collection to get in-mem doc merges that also go out to disk
module MongoMerge  
  def fancy_merge obj, changes
    changes.each do |k, v|
      next if k == :_id
      obj_v = obj[k]
      if !obj_v or not (Array === obj_v or Array === v)
        obj[k] = v
      elsif Array === obj_v
        obj[k] = (obj_v + [*v]).uniq