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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Network Structures that Promote Innovation
Forthcoming paper that looks quite interesting, " .... Which network structures favor the rapid spread of new ideas, behaviors, or technologies? This question...
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Decisions in Noisy Contexts
Good piece in Dan Ariely's always interesting blog: Good Decisions, Bad Outcomes. About attempting to make predictions in difficult environments, this can often...
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Bluespring Improves Business Processes
Had an informative followup meeting with Bluespring Software last week. An impressive company which uses Visio and Office to deliver business process modeling via...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Prepared Food Surge
A piece on the surge of prepared food in retail. Higher prices and profits, yet still an increased interest by shoppers for pre-prepared items.
From Putting People First
Growing up digital, wired for distraction
Matt Richtel reflects in a long New York Times article on the impact of growing up digital. The constant stream of stimuli offered by new technology, he says, poses...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-11-21
Government suppliers may be ordered to open up data I'll believe it when I see it. The whole point of outsourcing in government contexts (and not just IT – think...
From Putting People First
The reference user experience: four essays
The essays featured here stem from talks given at the Focusing on the User Experience session of this year
From Putting People First
Interactions Magazine
The current issue of Interactions Magazine is the last issue of editors Jon Kolko and Richard Anderson, who reflect on the results achieved. Also Don Norman reflects...
From Putting People First
Singapore needs to place anthropology before technology
“We need to place anthropology before technology,” said Richard Seymour, Co-founder, Seymourpowell, at the sixth annual meeting of the International Advisory Panel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Psych and Advertising
In Mind Hacks: a number of recently links in the general area of psychology and advertising. All of interest to the practitioner.
From Putting People First
Two Experientia presentations in Busan, South Korea
Last week, Experientia was in Busan, South Korea, at the invitation of the Busan Design Center. As part of its first Design Week, the Center organised two international...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CNN Labs: Sensors in Healthcare
CNN’s John Sutton has written a really great article describing sensor networks — and how they’re radically altering
From The Eponymous Pickle
Discovering the Benefits of the Semantic Enterprise
Mark Montgomery of Kyield video: " ... on the benefits and byproducts of employing our semantic enterprise system. The style is an informal lecture lasting about...
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Drink Recommending Vending Machines
Another idea about machines merchandising to people base on sensors. I have seen a number of examples of this, but none that were successful. If they are too...
From Putting People First
How college students evaluate and use information in the digital age
Project Information Literacy (PIL) is ongoing research project, based in the University of Washington’s Information School, that collects data from early adults...
From Putting People First
Harvard Forum essays on ICT4D
ITID (Information Technologies & International Development) has come out with a special issue devoted to papers emerging from the second Harvard Forum on ICTs,...
From Putting People First
Peter Merholz on advertising and marketing agencies delivering UX design
Peter Merholz, president of Adaptive Path, has written a long and eloquent rant against advertising and marketing agencies proclaiming to do user experience design...
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