The last two days has been intense. Monday afternoon was a lecture by Micheline Beaulieu on context-based evaluation of interactive systems, which tied in nicely with the social context course I took last fall. One of my greatest trepidation in foraying into the field of information, is that I have a thirst for technological understanding, but I am admittedly no CS material. Yet, Prof. Beaulieu’s research area and background gave me hope. Interdisciplinary approach — such as in the case of IR — doesn’t mean that everyone becomes an expert at everyone else’s field, it means an awareness and ability to speak in each other’s lexicons so a dialogue can happen. Read the rest of this entry »