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dConstruct 2011 videos online
From Putting People First

dConstruct 2011 videos online

dConstruct 2011, the 2 September event in Brighton, England, brought together leading thinkers from the fields of interaction design, mobile design and ubiquitous...

Managing Workforce With Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Managing Workforce With Analytics

We used BI and Analytical  methods early on in the enterprise in HR and it was very useful.  More here in Business Finance: Business analytics offers a fresh take...

Mr Cameron, it
From Putting People First

Mr Cameron, it

Ageing populations and budget cuts mean devising a new social contract. So why not use real designers

Where Facebook is not Used
From The Eponymous Pickle

Where Facebook is not Used

In FlowingData:   A fascinating map that shows where on earth Facebook is not being used.  Fairly universal.

Guardian Tech Weekly podcast: creating a digital public space
From Putting People First

Guardian Tech Weekly podcast: creating a digital public space

Jemima Kiss examines plans for a digital public space with the British Library, the Royal Opera House and the BBC. “How can we preserve analogue culture in a digital...

Listen
From My Biased Coin

Listen

A colleague outside theory (but inside computer science) recently brought up an interesting question with me that seemed like a possible research-level issue. LogP...

Video highlights from PICNIC Festival 2011
From Putting People First

Video highlights from PICNIC Festival 2011

The videos of the presentations at PICNIC Festival 2011 (14-16 September, Amsterdam) are now online. Jake Barton on Urban Collaboration and Storytelling What will...

The CKO in the Healthcare Data Explosion
From The Eponymous Pickle

The CKO in the Healthcare Data Explosion

Stan Dyck sends along this post from Healthcare IT News, very true:

The birth (and death) of market research: why design research will prevail
From Putting People First

The birth (and death) of market research: why design research will prevail

The market research industry is built for the 20th Century mass production model, which is rapidly disappearing, argues Sam Ladner. The

Audio interview with design anthropologist Dori Tunstall
From Putting People First

Audio interview with design anthropologist Dori Tunstall

Debbie Millman of DesignObserver.com interviewed design anthropologist Dori Tunstall on the insights that anthropology brings to consumerism and branding, and about...

Susan Graham to Receive Ken Kennedy Award
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Susan Graham to Receive Ken Kennedy Award

Susan L. Graham

New Attacks on CAPTCHAs
From Schneier on Security

New Attacks on CAPTCHAs

Nice research: Abstract: We report a novel attack on two CAPTCHAs that have been widely deployed on the Internet, one being Google's home design and the other...

Teaching Kids to Read but not Write?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Teaching Kids to Read but not Write?

A tweet passed though my stream last night. Eugene Wallingford retweeted someone else

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 11
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 11

October 12 Hearing The Research and Science Education Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on education approaches...

NSF/CISE Holds Webinar on Sustainability RFPs
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF/CISE Holds Webinar on Sustainability RFPs

Earlier this afternoon, the

Sleep App
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sleep App

Skeptical of its value, but will mention to a sleep disorder doctor.  Another example of sensor driven Apps, An App to Help You Sleep Better: By measuring your...

Navy Chooses InferX
From The Eponymous Pickle

Navy Chooses InferX

A short time ago I started to look at InferX, a company that implements data mining and alerting techniques.  A topic we explored extensively in the enterprise....

This Blog Promotes Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

This Blog Promotes Analytics

One of the purposes of this blog is to promote the use of analytical methods in retail, manufacturing, research, marketing and beyond.  Want to use my over thirty...

Embodied interactions: in touch with the digital
From Putting People First

Embodied interactions: in touch with the digital

Fabian Hemmert will be one of the keynote speakers at Interaction 12. In this article on Johnny Holland, he reflects on “recent developments in the research field...

Flow in design
From Putting People First

Flow in design

Dana Chisnell reports on the importance of flow in UX design. Flow comes from focused attention, deep engagement, a feeling of mastering a challenge. The outside...
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