Find me if you can: Designing Interfaces for People Search
By Junichiro Mori, Nathalie Basselin, Alexander Kroner, and Anthony Jameson (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)
Summary:
The article discusses people selection interfaces and provides two sample applications that assist in locating specific people for a given use.Searching for people is similar to searching for an article, everything is based on a given criteria. Next, the researchers define three types of data: user model-based, context-based, and relationship based. Examples provided are for the Community Browser (people are placed into categories) and Reaching People (assists in making contact with selected individuals through email or social networking tools). Both examples are functioning in two applications. To conclude, the researchers emphasize that this type of search is needed for collaborative work situations.
Discussion:
I found this paper to be lacking in detail. It introduced the topic of people searching for group projects, but did sufficiently describe who would have access to these types of searches. I see how in a large company this type of search could speed up team formations, but I am not sure if they should be open access to the general public.
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