Expertise
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010Thursday morning I got mail at work, which turned out to be an unsolicited book. As I noted on Twitter, I was somewhat confused by this.
OK, wtf? I just got a book on wines (what a coincidence) from a publishing company becoz of my blog. To review I guess. Why?
A book on wines for a […]
Lies, damned lies, and expertise
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009What is it with the bashing of experts this morning? First I read this article by Chris Atherton on why university professors, however great they may be in their particular research domain, tend to be bad at understanding how to teach. Then there is a blog entry over in the Frontal Cortex on how wine […]
Expertise and time perception
Friday, November 6th, 2009Now this is interesting: a study that suggests that experts perceive words from their own domain of knowledge as having been presented longer than other words:
Experts often appear to perceive time differently from novices. The current study thus examined perceptions of time as a function of domain expertise. Specifically, individuals with high or low levels […]
Workshop on amateurs and CSCW
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009The blurb on this CfP for a workshop at Group 2009 caught my eye:
What do a birdwatcher, photographer, tennis player, video gamer and Wikipedia editor have in common? Each might be characterized as an amateur in his or her respective area of participation. While discussion of the amateur participant emerges in a number of […]
Another study on expertise
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009This one is entitled Passive perceptual learning in relation to wine: Short-term recognition and verbal description, and was written by Angus L. Hughson and Robert A. Boakes, and published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 62, issue 1, pages 1-8, January 2009.
This experiment addressed the question of whether untutored experience of drinking wine […]
The misremembrance of wines past
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008Ooh, cool study on verbal and perceptual expertise: The misremembrance of wines past: Verbal and perceptual expertise differentially mediate verbal overshadowing of taste memory, by Joseph M. Melcher and Jonathan W. Schooler, Journal of Memory and Language, volume 35, issue 2, pp. 231-245, 1996.
When participants generate a detailed, memory-based description of complex nonverbal stimuli (e.g., […]
Paper submitted to HCI 2008
Monday, April 7th, 2008And another paper submitted to another conference, this time to HCI 2008. Heh, I had better not tell André that this conference is held in Liverpool or he’ll insist that we go there and worship at all the Beatles monuments.
And now to go work on some more papers.
