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? Eric Whitacre Concert
From Wild WebMink

? Eric Whitacre Concert

Eric Whitacre Concert, originally uploaded by webmink. Busy day Tuesday, which included the great pleasure of going to hear Eric Whitacre conduct his superb choir...

Research Plan: The Role of Story in Educational Games
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Research Plan: The Role of Story in Educational Games

I've (finally!) been working on a concrete thesis research plan and wanted to share a general idea of what I'm intending to do.  The short version is that I want...

Merchandising Across Channels
From The Eponymous Pickle

Merchandising Across Channels

Good report in RIS News:  " ... This month

From Computational Complexity

If Bill Tweeted what would he tweet (Steve Jobs Edition)

A more nuanced view of Steve Jobs: here. A less nuanced view of Steve Jobs: here. The next Steve Jobs: here A very nice NON-Steve Jobs post here. Is thisAndrew...

Card Deck Invention Games
From The Eponymous Pickle

Card Deck Invention Games

Mind Hacks discusses the use of card decks for innovation.    A game prompting invention.   Several card deck examples I had not heard of.    We used this technique...

The many meanings of ethnography
From Putting People First

The many meanings of ethnography

Ethnography, Ethnography or Ethnography? What Happens When the Same Word Means Different Things to Different People? is the title of a new paper on ethnography...

GS1 Standards Conference Report
From The Eponymous Pickle

GS1 Standards Conference Report

In the Enterprise I participated in a number of presentations by GS1 " ... an international not-for-profit association dedicated to the development and implementation...

dConstruct 2011 videos online
From Putting People First

dConstruct 2011 videos online

dConstruct 2011, the 2 September event in Brighton, England, brought together leading thinkers from the fields of interaction design, mobile design and ubiquitous...

Managing Workforce With Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Managing Workforce With Analytics

We used BI and Analytical  methods early on in the enterprise in HR and it was very useful.  More here in Business Finance: Business analytics offers a fresh take...

Mr Cameron, it
From Putting People First

Mr Cameron, it

Ageing populations and budget cuts mean devising a new social contract. So why not use real designers

Where Facebook is not Used
From The Eponymous Pickle

Where Facebook is not Used

In FlowingData:   A fascinating map that shows where on earth Facebook is not being used.  Fairly universal.

Guardian Tech Weekly podcast: creating a digital public space
From Putting People First

Guardian Tech Weekly podcast: creating a digital public space

Jemima Kiss examines plans for a digital public space with the British Library, the Royal Opera House and the BBC. “How can we preserve analogue culture in a digital...

Listen
From My Biased Coin

Listen

A colleague outside theory (but inside computer science) recently brought up an interesting question with me that seemed like a possible research-level issue. LogP...

Video highlights from PICNIC Festival 2011
From Putting People First

Video highlights from PICNIC Festival 2011

The videos of the presentations at PICNIC Festival 2011 (14-16 September, Amsterdam) are now online. Jake Barton on Urban Collaboration and Storytelling What will...

The CKO in the Healthcare Data Explosion
From The Eponymous Pickle

The CKO in the Healthcare Data Explosion

Stan Dyck sends along this post from Healthcare IT News, very true:

The birth (and death) of market research: why design research will prevail
From Putting People First

The birth (and death) of market research: why design research will prevail

The market research industry is built for the 20th Century mass production model, which is rapidly disappearing, argues Sam Ladner. The

Audio interview with design anthropologist Dori Tunstall
From Putting People First

Audio interview with design anthropologist Dori Tunstall

Debbie Millman of DesignObserver.com interviewed design anthropologist Dori Tunstall on the insights that anthropology brings to consumerism and branding, and about...

Susan Graham to Receive Ken Kennedy Award
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Susan Graham to Receive Ken Kennedy Award

Susan L. Graham

New Attacks on CAPTCHAs
From Schneier on Security

New Attacks on CAPTCHAs

Nice research: Abstract: We report a novel attack on two CAPTCHAs that have been widely deployed on the Internet, one being Google's home design and the other...

Teaching Kids to Read but not Write?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Teaching Kids to Read but not Write?

A tweet passed though my stream last night. Eugene Wallingford retweeted someone else
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