Headed to SXSW
I flew into Austin, TX today to participate of the SXSW Interactive conference as moderator of a panel titled The Potential of Augmented Reality for Education.
I came to pick up my badge and swag at the Austin Convention Center this afternoon and I can say I’m already impressed with the diversity of people, styles and backgrounds. From the plane to the convention center I’ve already meet Brazilians, an famous Italian blogger, a couple of people from Japan, people from marketing, and social media… I can tell this will be a great experience!
Hi Rashmi, I attended the panel soeissn and really enjoyed it, especially your presentation! It’s too bad you only had 10 minutes. I liked how you related tagging to natural cognition and argued that the user burden should be as low as possible and making sense out of the metadata universe should happen at the search stage, within the context of the kind of search being performed. Capture everything, sort it out later definitely makes sense for both user adoption and purity of metadata to fully realize collective crowd wisdom as well as let search methods decide how to best use the data, rather than imposing an artificial structure on the front-end. Thanks for posting the slides. I’ll be subscribing to this site’s RSS to keep up with your work. Cheers!