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From Putting People First

Awesome experiences make us nicer

New research by published in the journal Psychological Science shows that awe-inspiring moments can literally make time seem to stand still, or at least slow down... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 24, 2012 at 07:14 AM

From Putting People First

Making sense of the cross channel experience

In this short essay, Jon Fisher of UK consultancy Nomensa presents some introductory thoughts about Nomensa’s framework for ”sense making in cross channel design... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 24, 2012 at 07:09 AM

From Putting People First

mHealth: the next frontier or too much hype?

mHealth: The Next Frontier For Mobile Service Growth By Scott Wilson and Phil Asmundson of Deloitte Advances in wireless remote patient monitoring (RPM) are expected... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 24, 2012 at 07:03 AM

From Putting People First

Debate on the UXPA name change

At the beginning of June, the Usability Professionals Association (UPA) announced that from now on it would be known as the User Experience Professionals Association... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 24, 2012 at 06:54 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Walgreen's Mobile Store Map

Walgreen's maps every store with a mobile application, but does not communicate it very well, writes Storefrontbacktalk. We worked extensively with store mapping... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 24, 2012 at 06:45 AM

From Putting People First

Our Frugal Future: Lessons from India’s innovation system

Drawing on the latest data and over 130 interviews with Indian policymakers, entrepreneurs and academics, this report by NESTA, the UK innovation agency, explores... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 24, 2012 at 06:36 AM

From Putting People First

Co-design in innovation

In a short post on the Huffington Post blog, author Soren Petersen describes how co-design – when firms and non-design users jointly design business and product... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 23, 2012 at 11:42 PM

From Putting People First

Book: This is Service Design Thinking

This is Service Design Thinking: Basics – Tools – Cases Edited by Marc Stickdorn and Jakob Schneider BIS Publishers, 2011 376 pages (Amazon link) This is Service... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 23, 2012 at 11:11 PM

From Putting People First

Ethical decision-making apps damage our ability to make moral choices

A recent crush of smartphone and tablet apps claim to make hard decisions easier, and the range of ethical dilemmas they can weigh in on will only increase. At... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 23, 2012 at 10:59 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Computing Researchers Among Presidential Early-Career Awardees

This afternoon, the White House named 96 researchers — including a 2009 Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) – as recipients of the 2012 Presidential Early Career... Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | July 23, 2012 at 08:03 PM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 23 July 2012

I had a great week and a great weekend. Busy weekend with family which is the best way to spend the weekend. I’m late with today’s posts though but hopefully you... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 23, 2012 at 07:46 PM

From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Is C/C++ worth it?

We routinely attribute the long battery life and power of our tablets and tiny laptops to better hardware. However, in many cases, this better hardware runs software... Daniel Lemire
From Daniel Lemire's Blog | July 23, 2012 at 06:53 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

LandSat at 40

LandSat imagery was the first example we saw of the value of images from space for business. We examined them for use in forest management for the pulp industry... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 23, 2012 at 05:59 PM

From Computational Complexity

CCC12- post 4 of 4- Misc Info.

CCC 12 post 4 of 4. The business meeting and other observations. Programming committee info: There were 119 submissions of which 18 were junk (more on that... GASARCH
From Computational Complexity | July 23, 2012 at 05:09 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Holistic Virtualization

Computerworld special edition on holistic virtualization. Increasingly important for the integration of analytics. Exploring. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 23, 2012 at 05:05 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Noise and Blank Display Ads

Former colleague Ted McConnell, exec VP at the Advertising Research Foundation, writes about the conundrum of blank display ads getting an impressive number of... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 23, 2012 at 04:35 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Biases are Running Rampant

We discovered in the very early days of the Web that the increasing access to more information made it very easy to feed your own biases. Ordinary employeesSteve... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 23, 2012 at 02:14 PM

From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 23

July 24 Briefing: The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation is holding a briefing on assistive voting technology for veterans. 9:30 a.m., 188 Russell... David B.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | July 23, 2012 at 02:05 PM

From Schneier on Security

How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism

An antidote to the American cycle of threat, fear, and overspending in response to terrorism is this, about Norway on the first anniversary of its terrorist massacre... schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 23, 2012 at 11:15 AM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Introducing the CCC to Our New Readers

For those of you who have been regulars of the CCC Blog since the early days (back in late 2008), thanks for continuing to click on to us. For the rest of you —... Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | July 23, 2012 at 05:15 AM