Law, Science and Technology Proposal
From The Theme ONLINE MEDIA CONTENT WHAT IF What if we could facilitate consumer publication and use of online content by creating a more defined legal environment in which creative expression and use of content are encouraged, while the rights of creators of digital content are protected? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set […]
DIVER (Digital Interactive Video Exploration and Reflection) ROMP (Research on Online Media Personalization)
From The Theme ONLINE MEDIA CONTENT WHAT IF What if we could develop and study a mechanism for managing media content that preserves media companies’ digital rights, while providing consumers with new video expression and sharing functions? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to conduct research that would simulate the provision of […]
Trust, Reputation, and Anonymity in Peer to Peer Publishing and Content
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 […]
Transparent Social Footprints
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 […]
TweakCorps: Re-targeting Existing Webpages for Diverse Devices and Users
From The Theme PUBLISH ON DEMAND WHAT IF What if there were a machine learning algorithm that could identify and label design elements of web pages? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We focused on one popular class of semantic identifiers – those concerned with the structure (information architecture) of a page. Across webpages, there […]
Recasting the Textbook
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. […]
Content on the Go: The Economics of the Market for Mobile Apps
From The Theme PUBLISH ON DEMAND WHAT IF What if there were a better way to price apps than pricing based on either raising revenue or raising visibility? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We studied app pricing decisions in a stylized model to ascertain the relationship between pricing decisions and market visibility. We took […]
Decision Products and Long Term Integrity
From The Theme PUBLISH ON DEMAND WHAT IF What if we could use a software infrastructure to develop a culture that makes high-quality decision products a priority – as if facts, logic, future consequences, and preserving the integrity of those decisions are factors that matter? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO Our objectives were to […]
Smarter Scholarly Texts
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, […]