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From The Eponymous Pickle

Waitrose CrowdSources With its Shoppers

From IdeaConnection: The UK retailer Waitrose is using crowd sourcing techniques with its customers to develop new products. We will continue to see more of "... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | September 21, 2011 at 01:27 PM

From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Jane McGonigal: Reality is Broken

Jane McGonigal thinks reality is broken. Why else would so many of us escape it to play hours and hours of video games? But among all the media hype about theReality... Gail Carmichael
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science | September 21, 2011 at 12:21 PM

From Schneier on Security

Shifting Risk Instead of Reducing Risk

Risks of teen driving: For more than a decade, California and other states have kept their newest teen drivers on a tight leash, restricting the hours when they... schneier
From Schneier on Security | September 21, 2011 at 11:58 AM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Launching a New Resource for CS Undergraduates

We’re launching something brand new today! The Computing Community Consortium’s Research Community & Student Outreach Subcommittee is pleased to announce a unique... Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | September 21, 2011 at 11:51 AM

From Putting People First

Green markets must be created by you

Tuuli Kaskinen and Roope Mokka, researchers at Demos Helsinki, argue in an essay that we need more than mere sustainable versions of everyday products: we need... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 21, 2011 at 08:11 AM

From Putting People First

Designing social tools around user interests

The key to designing social media well lies in designing it for a user Experientia
From Putting People First | September 21, 2011 at 07:40 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Employee Segmentation

Bain & Company writes about Employee Segmentation: Using employee segmentation to bring out the best in your workforce. I had never thought about segmenting... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | September 21, 2011 at 05:14 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Brandwashed Published

Martin Lindstrom's new book: Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate our Minds and Persuade us to Buy is now available. See this press release for much... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | September 20, 2011 at 08:34 PM

From Putting People First

The Language of Interfaces

Des Traynor recently spoke at the Content Strategy Forum in London about the importance of which words used in an interface. The difference between Facebook’s Like... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 20, 2011 at 04:30 PM

From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Emerging Knowledge Is a Private Business

Collaboration is often encouraged in science: it is viewed as an intrinsically good thing. Yet there are downsides to collaboration. The most obvious downside is... Daniel Lemire
From Daniel Lemire's Blog | September 20, 2011 at 04:28 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Internal Social Software

Excellent Mashable piece on the use of social software inside the company. I am now involved with two projects that are seriously using this concept. It makes... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | September 20, 2011 at 04:09 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Computer Scientist Among 2011 MacArthur Fellows

Congratulations to Shwetak Patel, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, who has just... Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | September 20, 2011 at 03:55 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Eye Tracking for the iPad

A useful development reported in AdAge. GazeHawk Brings Eye-Tracking Technology to the iPad. Heatmaps Could Help Tablet Publishers and Advertisers. Yes, this... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | September 20, 2011 at 03:26 PM

From Putting People First

EPIC 2011 draft proceedings available for download

The draft proceedings of EPIC 2011, the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, currently taking place in Boulder, CO, USA, are available for download during... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 20, 2011 at 03:23 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Marketing in Korea

In the Korea Herald: A general article in English on mobile and virtual retail developments in Korea. We looked to Korea for its forward looking understanding... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | September 20, 2011 at 03:01 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

MS Robotic Studio

We examined a number of robotics solution for home solutions. In IEEE Spectrum: Microsoft Releases Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta, New Robot Platform. " ..... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | September 20, 2011 at 02:45 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

What is RFID?

I have given many talks on the nature and usefulness of Radio Frequency Identification. (RFID) I see today there is an article on RFID Journal about its nature... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | September 20, 2011 at 02:38 PM

From Putting People First

Behavioural insights could save millions of pounds

Using behavioural insights could save taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds over the course of the [UK] Parliament and thousands of lives a year, according to... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 20, 2011 at 02:36 PM

From Putting People First

Transform Conference at Mayo Clinic (videos)

A week ago Mayo Clinic Experientia
From Putting People First | September 20, 2011 at 02:20 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Calling for Proposals: Envisioning Frontiers of Computing Research

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) — a standing committee of CRA that seeks to catalyze and empower the computing research community to pursue audacious,... Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | September 20, 2011 at 01:26 PM