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From Putting People First

Pfizer uses ethnography and medical anthropology in drug development process

In 2013 Pfizer leadership realized that to better enable patient engagement throughout the entirety of the drug discovery, development, and delivery process, the... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 20, 2015 at 06:08 AM

From Wild WebMink

Legislating For Unicorns

When Julian Huppert MP (Lib-Dem) asked the Home Secretary Theresa May MP (Con) if banning encryption – as the Prime Minister had been interpreted as saying – is... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | January 20, 2015 at 05:39 AM

From Putting People First

Microsoft survey in 12 countries highlights people’s concerns about privacy

Microsoft’s second annual survey (pdf) of Internet users around the world has many obvious insights on the benefits of technology for how people shop, work, learn... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 20, 2015 at 03:25 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Turning a Boring Task into a Game

A classic reason for gamifying a task. In the news today: The Airport Scanner game shows how you can get millions of people to perform the luggage scanning task... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 19, 2015 at 02:38 PM

From Putting People First

Time for Big Anthropology

Numbers don’t tell us everything we need to know [in health care], writes strategic consultant Dan Beckham. We must also consider human culture: “That’s often the... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 19, 2015 at 01:44 PM

From Schneier on Security

US Law Enforcement Also Conducting Mass Telephone Surveillance

Late last year, in a criminal case involving export violations, the US government disclosed a mysterious database of telephone call records that it had queried... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | January 19, 2015 at 01:42 PM

From XRDS

From novice to expert: the art of science of pedagogy

By now, America’s STEM problem – the growing gap between demand and skill in American jobs in STEM fields – is well recognized (see this commentary by Bill Nye)... Olivia
From XRDS | January 19, 2015 at 01:17 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Unilever Shares Selfies

In Internet Retailer: Another example of shoppers using their phones to explore the marketing space. It is much done already, but how are the results managed,... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 19, 2015 at 12:27 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Arrives, Worries People

In Wired, discussing an arrival of AI and how it worries people. I remember that this was warned of in the late 80s as well. Now we have marched down the road... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 19, 2015 at 12:13 PM

From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

A Comic About Grace Hopper

Ramya from Udemy shared a neat little comic with me about Grace Hopper, and said I could share it here. You can look at the comic on their website, too, whereView... Gail Carmichael
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science | January 19, 2015 at 09:49 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Emotional Ads more Impactful in Wealthier Nations

Perhaps Obvious. But have never seen a study attempting to quantify it. In Research Live Magazine." ... A paper published in the Journal of Advertising Research... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 19, 2015 at 09:33 AM

From Computational Complexity

The two defintions of Chomsky Normal Form

I have eight textbooks on Formal Lang Theory on my desk. Six of them define a CFG to be in Chomsky Normal Form if every production is of the form either A-->BC... GASARCH
From Computational Complexity | January 19, 2015 at 09:33 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Gesture Sensing Armband

In Engadget: Have been looking at applications of gestural interfaces to analytics " .... Muscle-sensing Myo gesture armband will be on Amazon this quarter... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 19, 2015 at 08:53 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger Digital Strategy to Save Customers Time and Money

More on Kroger Digital Strategy. " ... Kroger keeps studying online shopping because 60 percent of all consumers consider trips to the grocery store their least... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 19, 2015 at 08:52 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 19 January 2015

School is out today in honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day. Semester exams start tomorrow. I think I’m ready. I hope my students are ready. I do have a couple of... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | January 19, 2015 at 06:11 AM

From Putting People First

The agency is dead. Long live the agency.

The traditional agency model is physically more than alive on a small scale, but mentally has been stagnating, writes Tobias van Schneider, Product Design Lead... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 19, 2015 at 02:47 AM

From Putting People First

In the age of the Internet of Things, all products are software products

Esko Kilpi, the principal of Esko Kilpi Ltd, a leading research and consultancy firm focusing on the art of interaction, science of social complexity and the design... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 19, 2015 at 02:38 AM

From Putting People First

Behavioural Economics and Health: Nudging Toward a Culture of Wellness

Behavioural Economics and Health: Nudging Toward a Culture of Wellness Report by David Verbeeten The Conference Board of Canada, 52 pages, January 15, 2015 This... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 19, 2015 at 02:30 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Structural Data Objects

Interesting piece. I recall working on something like this for the construction of a competitive analysis database. Though it was not called a structural data... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 18, 2015 at 10:42 PM

From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

January (web)

Welcome from the ACM-W Chair Welcome to the January 2015 issue of ACM-W Connections. It has been a year since we first introduced Connections and I want to once... oleary
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing | January 18, 2015 at 07:29 PM