University of Sheffield - Steve Whittaker

University of Sheffield - Steve Whittaker

Intreasting lectore by Steve Whittaker on memory. He says that most of the work done shows that while people might spend a lot of time saving memories they don't use them that oftern. For exampe me metioned research the 43% of book marks are not revisited. or that most corporatations show little document reuse and that having recordings of lectures don't help students scores.

Intreasting. Did show off cool device that records sound and lets you take notes. The idea was that the notes index the sounds and so clicking on an old note jumps the audio stream to that point ( when you made the note). I always wanted to do something similar with a button on a recording ipod. That is it always records but marking makes the last 5 mins stored.

Also showed cool zooming text tech. Basically the way to get significant words is to look for words occuring more oftern than it does in general lanuage. Does produce some quite cool results.

Mentioned website where people have labled significant locations ( something to do with BBC and first memories... I can't remember).

Fourth experiment just completed makes us 30% of the way to statisitcal salvation.

Still the memory stuff makes you wonder why you bother to blog at all ?