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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 My Biased Coin
Reviewing Bad
A pun title, relating to two quick things.First, I had the wonderful experience of getting to see (through a special deal set up by Harvard's faculty development...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tibco Spotfire Acquires Extended Results
TIBCO Software Acquires Extended ResultsTIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced it has acquired Extended Results, a privately-held provider of mobile...
From Putting People First
How Public Design? A conference at Mindlab
MindLab, a cross-ministerial innovation unit in Denmark, hosted the seminar titled ‘How Public Design?’ for the second time on 2 and 3 September. This event gathered...
From Putting People First
Is design still about making things?
The future of design is a broad and slippery subject, one examined number of designers and critics at the recent Alvar Aalto Design Seminar in Jyväskylä, Finland...
From Putting People First
How robots can trick you into loving them
The secret to robots with better social skills? Exploiting human nature. Maggie Koerth-Baker, science editor of BoingBoing.net, explores “how [designers can make]...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fewer Skeuomorphs
Brought to mind after loading the new flat design IOS7, which contains fewer skeuomorphs. Which are: Skeuomorphism A skeuomorph /ˈskjuːəmɔrf/ is a derivative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Millennials to Love and Share your Product
In Adage: " ... How to Get Millennials to Love and Share Your Product ... This Generation Wants to Be Engaged and Feel Good About Themselves ... "
From Putting People First
EthnographyMatters on the relationships between ethnography, fiction and design
This month’s theme of EthnographyMatters, edited by Nicolas Nova, is about the relationships between ethnography, speculative fiction and design. “In design circles...
From Putting People First
Two recent reports by Pew Internet
Both studies are about the USA market. Location-based services (Released on September 12, 2013) The role of location in digital life is changing as growing numbers...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Big Data Fellowship Opportunity
Every year, AAAS administers the Science & Technology Policy Fellowship program, which brings over 200 scientists and engineers to DC each year to work for the...
From Putting People First
A Manifesto for Smart Citizens
We, citizens of all cities, take the fate of the places we live in into our own hands. We care about the familiar buildings and the parks, the shops, the schools...
From Putting People First
Book: Design Anthropology
Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice Editor(s): Wendy Gunn, Ton Otto, Rachel Charlotte Smith Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 304 pages Design is a key site of cultural...
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The Internet of Things and the mythical smart fridge
In this article for UX Magazine, Avi Itzkovitch explores the opportunities the Internet of Things presents to designers. Because the smart fridge is the cliché...
From Putting People First
Who Commits Virtual Identity Suicide?
Who Commits Virtual Identity Suicide? Differences in Privacy Concerns, Internet Addiction, and Personality Between Facebook Users and Quitters Stefan Stieger, Christoph...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rescuing Infographics or Making them right
Readers here know my impatience with what are called infographics. More set up to look graphically impressive and clever than to inform. I don't think they can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Millennial Consumer
In Time: More intent on Browsing than on Splurging?" ... The millennial generation is easily the most studied demographic since their parents, the Baby Boomers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Long Range Strategic Planning
In HBS Working Knowledge: A quick look at long range strategic planning. I say that regardless if the work is not predictive, the path to achieving it is still...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Branded Google Glass Apps
Presenting Branded Google Glass Apps. Another move forward? " ... Google Glass may have just 10,000 users, but that hasn't stopped a handful of brands from developing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Videos for My C# Class
I've been creating short videos for my honors programming class. They are short and intended for my students to use for review. I’m not saying they are great but...
From The Eponymous Pickle