[Sigia-l] Netiquette

[Jared M. Spool]

At 02:45 PM 8/18/2005, Donna Timara wrote:
>On 8/18/05, Drop, Daniel SIK <ddrop at sikorsky.com> wrote:
>
> > We have recently seen this balancing act on this forum.  Jared's recent
> > responses to those differing on his opinion on the length of navigation
> > labels are commendable.  Having followed this forum for many years, I
> > noticed statements from his dissenters that may have been perceived as
> > personal attacks by other readers. Jared always responded to the difference
> > of opinion, never the perceived attack.  The dialog was very refreshing.>
>
>I thought so too. Thanks for mentioning. I think Jared has been
>exceptionaly good at this. I am not sure, Jared must speak for
>himself, but I guess, he uses dialogs very well to learn something
>from other POVs...?!

Thanks to Daniel and Donna for the kind words.

As a researcher, my interest is in exploring the problem space. Our 
research points to certain findings, but those findings are within a 
context. All the interesting things happen at the edges of that context.

When people point out counter examples or bring up questions, we're 
exploring the most interesting part of the research. So, I don't need to 
feel threatened in these conversations -- on the contrary, I very much 
encourage the discourse.

In fact, we've taken things a step further and created a blog, just for 
this purpose. (You can see it here: http://www.uie.com/brainsparks ) At 
first, we considered not allowing comments, but quickly dismissed that 
idea, as we want to encourage people to ask about the work.

Every time I answer a question about our research, I learn something about 
where folks are coming from and what they need from us. It helps me explain 
our work even better the next time.

I'd like to encourage people to check out our blog and give us comments.

Jared


Jared M. Spool, User Interface Engineering
http://www.uie.com    jspool at uie.com    blog: http://uie.com/brainsparks

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