As per normal, my short and mostly unheard rant about HCI and WWW! This year we did have some HCI under the title ‘Social Web UI’. Two other session did look promising, ‘User Behavior in OSN’ and ‘Behavioral Analysis’, but alas no, miss titled in mine, and other HCI’ers opinion. These were mostly ‘throw tweets at ML/AI’ and wait. Social Web UI was the only viable option.

So what did we get?

• Perception and Understanding of Social Annotations in Web Search Presenters: Jennifer Fernquist, Ed H. Chi   
• Google+ Ripples: A Native Visualization of Information Flow Presenters: Fernanda B. Viegas, Martin Wattenberg, Jack Hebert, Geoffrey Borggaard, Alison Cichowlas,Jonathan Feinberg, Jon Orwant, Christopher R. Wren
• Do Social Explanations Work? – Studying and Modeling the Effects of Social Explanations in Recommender Systems Presenters: Amit Sharma , Dan Cosley
• Saving, Reusing, and Remixing Web Video: using attitudes and practices to reveal social norms Presenters: Frank Shipman , Catherine Marshall