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Ultra Simple User Interfaces
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ultra Simple User Interfaces

The best user interface should predictively anticipate our needs.    Focus us on the right data and tools to do our job best.    Feed us the proper sensor readings...

GOPHERSET: NSA Exploit of the Day
From Schneier on Security

GOPHERSET: NSA Exploit of the Day

Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: GOPHERSET (TS//SI//REL) GOPHERSET is a software implant for GSM (Global System...

Exploring new markets for Firefox OS: mobile and internet behaviours in Central Europe
From Putting People First

Exploring new markets for Firefox OS: mobile and internet behaviours in Central Europe

Experientia has lately been doing a lot of work on mobile OSes, from feature evaluations of some of the more interesting new arrivals, to comparisons of some of...

Qualitative research in industry – videos from the Qualitative 360 Asia Pacific conference
From Putting People First

Qualitative research in industry – videos from the Qualitative 360 Asia Pacific conference

Qualitative 360 Asia Pacific 2013 took place in Singapore in November 2013, and some videos are now available: Winning with shoppers via qualitative research [23...

Ford Autonomous Vehicle
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ford Autonomous Vehicle

A look at an autonomous vehicle prototype by Ford.  When will the vision of fully autonomous vehicles become common?  Still wonder the liability issues.

CPG Companies vs Amazon or With Them?
From The Eponymous Pickle

CPG Companies vs Amazon or With Them?

In Retailwire:" ... Are CPG companies consciously deciding to align with the logistic powerhouse of the future instead of the distribution giants (brick-and-mortar...

A case study on inclusive design: ethnography and energy use
From Putting People First

A case study on inclusive design: ethnography and energy use

Energy usage and conservation can be a seemingly mundane part of an individual’s daily life on one hand, but a politically, ecologically, and economically critical...

Finding People's Location Based on Their Activities in Cyberspace
From Schneier on Security

Finding People's Location Based on Their Activities in Cyberspace

Glenn Greenwald is back reporting about the NSA, now with Pierre Omidyar's news organization FirstLook and its introductory publication, The Intercept. Writingfirst...

Square at Whole Foods
From The Eponymous Pickle

Square at Whole Foods

Did an early experiment with the Square system for client payment, it has continued to progress in POS system,  here it continues its push into retailer payment...

On Applied Concept Mapping
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Applied Concept Mapping

Some time ago I mentioned the book Applied Concept Mapping, by Brian Moon, et al  and also posts about concept mapping in general.   Also about how it can be implemented...

Team Robotics: Loving the Swarm
From The Eponymous Pickle

Team Robotics: Loving the Swarm

New research on a topic we had examined.  Using cheap, simple and disposable robots to perform sensor activity, like performing inventory in a warehouse.      ...

Hitting a Block and Feeling Stuck
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Hitting a Block and Feeling Stuck

I recently received an email asking whether I've ever faced programmer's block.  The emailer was referring to those times you sit and stare at a problem but never...

From Computational Complexity

IEEE and the Conference on Computational Complexity

Dieter van Melkebeek, current conference chair of the IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity has set up a forum to discuss the future affiliation of the conference...

DROPOUTJEEP: NSA Exploit of the Day
From Schneier on Security

DROPOUTJEEP: NSA Exploit of the Day

Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: DROPOUTJEEP (TS//SI//REL) DROPOUTJEEP is a STRAITBIZARRE based software implant...

Gamification Reviewed
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gamification Reviewed

Knowledge@Wharton looks at the state of Gamification.   I have noticed a decrease in communication about the approach, since we did a number of experiments in the...

My Favorite Students Ask Me The Most Questions
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

My Favorite Students Ask Me The Most Questions

I try hard to explain every well the first time. I really do. I think most teachers do. It never fails though that someone doesn’t get it the first time. In all...

The Museum of Future Government Services
From Putting People First

The Museum of Future Government Services

The Museum of Future Government Services, which in Dubai on the 10th of February at the UAE Government Summit, is an interactive design futures. The Museum explores...

An anthropologist walks into a bar…
From Putting People First

An anthropologist walks into a bar…

In 2006 a major European brewing company we’ll call BeerCo was faced with falling bar and pub sales and, despite muscular market research and competitive analysis...

Data and design in innovative citizen experiences
From Putting People First

Data and design in innovative citizen experiences

The past decade has brought enormous and growing benefits to ordinary citizens through applications built on public data. Any release of data offers advantages...

Deep Data Insights
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deep Data Insights

Stephen Few reviews the book:   Data Insights: New Ways to Visualize and Make Sense of Data, by Hunter Whitney.    Taking a look myself.  " ... Data Insights is...
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