VTX 7:00 – 3:30

Paper

• Need to add diagram that connects research questions
• Need to add some setup for each section
• Need to add a ‘done’ condition to the discussion of the RQs. – Working this.
  • Struggled with RQ2 and RQ2a. My issue was one of ordering reall. I’d like to get some good information about how the current tool would be used. I know there will need to be modifications and I don’t want to get tied up in designing before the people that I can talk to about the design have a sense of how it might work. So what is required for a pre-design design? And how do you evaluate it.
  • As a side note, I could certainly revisit the Google news navigation. The RSS code isn’t supported any more, but it looks like a CSE with NewsArticle might work. Looks like it does! ScholarlyArticle is supported as well!
• Add a study where subjects have explorer, confirmer and avoider roles when searching for an answer. (This should be in the E.C. for 5.4.4)
• Add a final study that’s just ‘open search’? (This could be interesting with 5.4.5. It wouldn’t be any more coding than the Red Scare system. Still a Google CSE as the back end, but running through an intermediary server for logging.)

Coding

• Going to try the similarity distance as the ratio of similar items to the total. That turned out to work very nicely. Here’s the code of it:

  public double compare(Belief targBelief) {
      CollectionCompare cc = new CollectionCompare();
  
      // look for all matches and partial matches from teh target's point of view
      for (Statement targStatement : targBelief.getList()) {
          if (statementMap.containsKey(targStatement.getName())) {
              Statement sourceStatement = statementMap.get(targStatement.getName());
              double matches = Math.min(sourceStatement.getWeight(), targStatement.getWeight());
              cc.matches += matches;
              cc.mismatches += Math.max(sourceStatement.getWeight(), targStatement.getWeight()) - matches;
  
          } else {
              cc.mismatches += targStatement.getWeight();
          }
      }
  
      // look for all mismatches from our point of view
      Map<String, Statement> targMap = targBelief.getMap();
      for (Statement sourceStatement : getList()) {
          if (!targMap.containsKey(sourceStatement.getName())) {
              cc.mismatches += sourceStatement.getWeight();
          }
      }
  
      cc.total = cc.matches+cc.mismatches;
      double ratio = cc.matches/cc.total;
  
      return ratio;
  }

• Had to add a pull towards the origin
• Added sliders to manipulate attraction and repulsion