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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 Putting People First
Behaviour more significant than opinion when it comes to service design
Behaviour change techniques should be used to develop public services with citizens’ motivations at the heart of their design, says a leading [UK] thinktank. A...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain-Computer Interfaces
An article and video showing an example of brain computer interfaces for communications and control. " .... Brain activity produces electrical signals detectable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter & Gamble Uses Pepto Bismol Social Media
A good and detailed case study of the use of Cinco de Mayo festival and a viral YouTube App to promote a consumer packaged goods video. Good example of how big...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Links on Ubiquitous Sensors
Some interesting links on ubiquitous sensors in Techdirt that attracted by attention. Some more useful than others, but worth exploring. It is about gathering...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Prints
Okay, this is a little weird: This year's Earth Day will again include the celebrated "squid printing" activity with two big, beautiful Pacific Humboldt squidagain...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE Seeking SI2 Proposals
The NSF’s CISE Directorate, in partnership with the Office of Cyberinfrastructure and other directorates at the Foundation, has announced a call for Software Infrastructure...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Will Rising Enrollments Stifle Partnerships?
Mark Guzdial's recent blog contained an interesting article from Eric Roberts: https://computinged.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/guest-post-eric-roberts-on-the-dangers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Networking for Business Collaboration?
For informal communication and alerting, yes, but for ongoing collaboration? I agree, not in its current form. In Ecommerce Times: Is 'Social' Business Collaboration...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
What Can AI Offer to Biologically Inspired Sustainable Design?
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Ashok Goel, Associate Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science in the School of Interactive Computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Opinion Stats Done Wrong
A good post in the ACM blog about how opinion statistics are often done wrong. I have seen similar things done in the enterprise. Well worth understanding. The...
From Putting People First
Dagstuhl UX white paper
Thirty user experience (UX) researchers and practitioners participated in a three day seminar in Dagstuhl in order to bring clarity to the concept of user experience...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Ten things Computer Science Tells us About Bureaucrats
Originally, the term computer applied to human beings. These days, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish reliably machines from human beings: we require ever...
From Wild WebMink
? Transparency and Privacy Article Available
I’ve edited the article that appeared here and on CWUK earlier to reflect conversations on identi.ca and elsewhere and you’ll now find it in the Essays section.
From Putting People First
Where innovation belongs in user-centered design
User Experience designers have a unique opportunity to become the facilitators of holistic design and the advocates of innovation, argues Jake Truemper. By combining...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Groupon Clone Goes Live
Google has released its own Groupon offering. Having now used Groupon a number of times I can understand the attraction. Yet I still get the feeling Groupon is sloppily...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Exits BrainJuicer
Unilever has sold off its position in online research agency BrainJuicer, after an usually lengthy eight year investment. A quick look at BrainJuicer seems totheir...
From Putting People First
Theoretical underpinnings of social interaction design
Adrian Chan has posted what he calls a “big picture introduction” to the theory behind social interaction design. “I view social interaction design as a field that...
From Putting People First
Books on ethnography and ubiquitous computing by PARC researchers
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, a Xerox Company), a premier center for commercial innovation, announced that Dr. Margaret Szymanski, Senior Researcher and interaction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Photo Cruising in Google Earth
A new browsing capability has been added to Google Earth called Cruising that lets you move through posted images. Nice idea, though it is most interesting where...
From Computational Complexity