I was *so* hoping this was going to be about the Machine Queen of Mars <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_(rover)>. But this looks amazing too...
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 3:50 PM Janna Layton <jlay...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > In this showcase, Prof. Danielle Bassett will present recent work studying > individual and collective curiosity as network building processes using > Wikipedia. > > Date/Time: March 17, 16:30 UTC (9:30am PT/12:30pm ET/17:30pm CET) > Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw2s_Y4J2tI > > Speaker: Danielle Bassett (University of Pennsylvania) > > Title: The curious human > > Abstract: The human mind is curious. It is strange, remarkable, and > mystifying; it is eager, probing, questioning. Despite its pervasiveness > and its relevance for our well-being, scientific studies of human curiosity > that bridge both the organ of curiosity and the object of curiosity remain > in their infancy. In this talk, I will integrate historical, philosophical, > and psychological perspectives with techniques from applied mathematics and > statistical physics to study individual and collective curiosity. In the > former, I will evaluate how humans walk on the knowledge network of > Wikipedia during unconstrained browsing. In doing so, we will capture > idiosyncratic forms of curiosity that span multiple millennia, cultures, > languages, and timescales. In the latter, I will consider the fruition of > collective curiosity in the building of scientific knowledge as encoded in > Wikipedia. Throughout, I will make a case for the position that individual > and collective curiosity are both network building processes, providing a > connective counterpoint to the common acquisitional account of curiosity in > humans. > > Related papers: > > Hunters, busybodies, and the knowledge network building associated with > curiosity. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/undy4 > > The network structure of scientific revolutions. > http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08381 > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#March_2021 > > -- > Janna Layton (she/her) > Administrative Associate - Product & Technology > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
