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From Putting People First

Book: The Mobile Frontier

The Mobile Frontier – A Guide for Designing Mobile Experiences By Rachel Hinman Rosenfeld Media June 2012 Publisher’s page | Amazon page Mobile user experience... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 10, 2012 at 02:01 PM

From Putting People First

Marty Kaplan: From Attention to Engagement (video)

Barcelona Media, an interdisciplinary center of research and innovation, hosted Lear Center director Marty Kaplan to speak at its 10th anniversary celebration on... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 10, 2012 at 01:50 PM

From Putting People First

Manifesto for design upholding human talents and innovation

This morning I got an invite in the mail to attend a London design symposium at Brunel University next week (16 June) that will debate the core themes of a new... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 10, 2012 at 09:30 AM

From Putting People First

Dark Matter and Trojan Horses

“Dark Matter and Trojan Horses – A Strategic Design Vocabulary” is a short e-book by designer and urbanist Dan Hill in which he argues that in an age of wicked... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 10, 2012 at 08:42 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Intel Facial Recognition

From Intel: A means of using facial recognition to target ads. " ... Intel has developed a new set-top box that will monitor who is watching TV at that moment... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 10, 2012 at 02:37 AM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

From time to time, we feature on this Blog an exciting research result that’s been picked up the mainstream media. Here’s one that’s garnered some interest this... Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | June 9, 2012 at 03:05 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Mapping Medical Conversations

Discursis maps and visualizes medical conversations. Adds insight to what really helps. "... The system can identify effective doctor-patient communication... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 9, 2012 at 01:56 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Use of QR Code

Using QR codes as a time station: The simple check-in idea has become more common. Simple is often good to build upon. Via Walter Riker. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 9, 2012 at 01:33 PM

From Putting People First

Genevieve Bell: women are tech

Social scientist Genevieve Bell – who is also the interaction and experience research director at Intel Labs – gave a major talk on what the future of technology... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 9, 2012 at 10:25 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

After Broadband: Chocolate Printers

Knowledge@Wharton on what happens when there is truly all pervasive connectivity. " ... Chocolate printers. Corporate "health meters" based on the Facebook posting... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 9, 2012 at 01:58 AM

From Apophenia

Why

On Wednesday night, I arrived at the Hilton Doubletree in Washington DC after an intense day of meetings ready to do a few more hours of work. When I got to the... zephoria
From Apophenia | June 9, 2012 at 12:10 AM

From Computational Complexity

A new bound on 3-hypergraph Ramsey Number! Why wasn't it discovered earlier?

When a new result is first discovered one question to ask is Why wasn't it discovered earlier? We look at a result in Ramsey Theory from 2010 and speculate asHypergraph... GASARCH
From Computational Complexity | June 8, 2012 at 09:49 PM

From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Baby Opalescent Squid

Baby squid larvae are transparent after they hatch, so you can see the chromataphores (color control mechanisms) developing after a few days. As usual, you can... schneier
From Schneier on Security | June 8, 2012 at 09:28 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

U.S., Japan Collaboration on Big Data and Disaster Research

The heads of the Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | June 8, 2012 at 07:12 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Bing Links with Britannica

ComputerWorld reports: To provide thumbnail encyclopedic information based on search requests. This would be akin to the fact that Wikipedia hits often come up... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 8, 2012 at 06:39 PM

From My Biased Coin

New SIGACT Officers

Lance informs me we have newly elected officers at SIGACT.Chair: Paul BeameMembers-at-Large:Venkatesan GuruswamiRocco ServedioAvrim BlumTal RabinCongratulations... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | June 8, 2012 at 05:10 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Visirule for Expert Systems

I have had reason recently to re-examine the use of expert systems to understand and improve complex business processes. I have mentioned a package called Visirule... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 8, 2012 at 04:22 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart and P&G Team for Mobile Shopping

In a unique and novel approach a faux food truck in NYC and Chicago is decorated with QR codes. Allows the walking shopper to buy an assortment of popular consumer... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 8, 2012 at 03:37 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF, Science Seeking Video Games, Apps for Visualization Challenge

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | June 8, 2012 at 02:45 PM

From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

When to Use Math Problems for Teaching Programming

Last time I talked about Dan Meyer's work, I pondered how his ideas about perplexing problems applied to educational games. He recently did an Ignite talk that... Gail Carmichael
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science | June 8, 2012 at 02:14 PM