tag > HCI
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Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in (wolfie christl)
"Esoteric metrics based on analyzing extensive data about employee activities has been mostly the domain of fringe software vendors. Now it's built into MS 365. A new feature to calculate 'productivity scores' turns Microsoft 365 into an full-fledged workplace surveillance tool"
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The primary effects of spending 10 min on Twitter:
Significant increase of stress, tension and confusion.The primary effects of spending 10 min doing Qigong:
Significant reduction of stress, tension and confusion. -
No Implants Needed For Precise Control Deep Into The Brain (spectrum.ieee)
Optogenetics can now control neural circuits at unprecedented depths within living brain tissue without surgery.
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Towards a Universal Knowledge Accelerator - talk by Aniket Kittur
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"Who you are is determined at the moment of action - not by who you think you are or how others perceive you." - Richard Thieme
Related: Zero Day: Roswell - A short story by Richard Thieme
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Android is becoming a worldwide earthquake detection network
Google is creating a worldwide, Android phone-powered earthquake alert system. The first part of that system is rolling out today. If you opt in, the accelerometer in your Android phone will become one data point for an algorithm designed to detect earthquakes. Eventually, that system will automatically send warnings to people who could be impacted.
#Technology #ML #Augmentation #HCI #FFHCI #CrowdIntelligence #Military
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Diagram of Edward T. Hall's personal reaction bubbles (1966)
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This essay studies examples of early video art from a new historical perspective focusing on the co-evolution of live media and present-time consciousness from 1960s onwards. Pioneers’ videotapes and installations appear as the first segments of a non-linear sequence of electronic art practices coping with the postmodern crisis of temporality.
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People who are easily hypnotized are more likely to be addicted to their smartphones
New research published in Frontiers in Psychology suggests that being absorbed by your smartphone might bear some resemblance to a hypnotic trance. A hypnosis experiment found that students with heightened smartphone addiction scores followed more hypnotic suggestions than their counterparts.
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Design Methods: Or how to augment group creativity.
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Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as it is to use it
The user wants open software, software that can be modified, and that can participate in a progressive improvement process. — J.C.R. Licklider, Some Reflections on Early History (1986)
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The Focus of Designers. Slide my talk "Augmentation, Amputation, Dehumanisation - Towards Life Centered Design" (2019)
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Loomio is decision-making software designed to assist groups with the collaborative decision-making process. It is a free software web application, where users can initiate discussions and put up proposals. As the discussions progress to initiating a proposal, the group receives feedback through an updatable pie chart. (wikipedia)
