www.chrisjordan.ca

So I have been busy. Work has been awesome and I will have some interesting updates on different things I have been working on later. I also just got back from my first vacation to Vancouver... well first vacation since I started work. When I got home at the beginning of this month, I was pleasantly surprised to find that my HICSS-42 publication was nominated for a best paper award. It didn't get it but regardless, it is nice to know that people found it to be good enough to warrant the nod.

Well, that title is slightly deceiving. I am almost done. I successfully defended my thesis earlier this month and pasted in my revisions. I am just waiting to get my committee's approval before I can official declare that I am done. So yes, that means I can be referred to as Dr. Chris. I am not too sure about using the prefix but I am definitely glad to be done.

Well, it finally happened. I published a paper on my PhD thesis work. It got accepted at HICSS-42 in the Digital Media: Content and Communication track under the Information Access and Retrieval: The Web, Users, and HCI mini-track. The abstract is below.

I recently published a paper with Dr. Toms' CMI lab about our search research that we did for INEX 2007. It is entitled "Task Effects on Interactive Search: The Query Factor" Site. Coincidently, it is in the proceedings for INEX 2007. Essentially is it about the experimental Wikipedia search system that we have been developing over the past year and looking at how users behave while they search when doing different tasks. Not surprisingly, user behavior differs depending on the task.

Hey all,

I have just relocated to New York with my wife. I got what looks to be a cool job here and she will be continuing on with her school. It's been a busy month with moving and settling in but we are getting there.

Ok, I have finally moved over all the content from my old Plone site to Drupal. I have to say that Drupal is a little different from Plone in terms of managing a Website. I think that the Plone approach to creating and editing pages and workflows is more intuitive than Drupal. Drupal however is much faster, uses less resources, and far easier to skin. Overall, I am happy with the move to Drupal. The Drupal blog and forum modules are nice too.

Hey all,

PhD is all but done now so I decided to rebuild my Website. It needed something new and I was getting tired of Plone. Anyhow, I am moving everything over to the new site in the next few days.

And yes... I have a blog now.