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An article in New Scientist explores how user interface researchers are investigating computer aided persuasion as a technique to assist people to make choices. To me this is a perfect example of understanding how to use the edge computing interface to shift behavior. "Researchers at Eindhoven University...
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This article from the BBC describes a huge piece of infrastructure being proposed for the London Olympics . "A giant "digital cloud" that would "float" above London's skyline has been outlined by an international team of architects, artists and engineers. The construction...
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I was in a discussion the other day with HP's research lead Prith Banerjee . One of the research areas he talked about was Taxonom a data classification SaaS . This project is focused on deriving taxonomies from data. This is always an area I find fascinating, since it is having the computers automate...
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I just got a notification that Popfly is shutting down (it never left BETA). The note I received from Microsoft stated: "It's with a heavy heart that I share some news with you today: on August 24, 2009, the Popfly service will be discontinued and all sites, references, and resources will be...
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On www.eds.com , there is an article titled " Accelerating Success Through Innovation ." It discusses EDS’ position on innovation and spotlight how our government segment is delivering innovation. One of the items mentioned in the story is the emergency management system that EDS did...
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One of the predictions I had for 2008 was for fundamental changes in the user interface. This article describes efforts underway to provide a smarter automotive dashboard, addressing some of the attention engineering concerns I’ve discussed before. A team from the Technical University of Berlin found...
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CIO magazine this month had an article on dealing with complexity . It starts out with a term I’ve never heard before: Moore’s Flaw. This concept is something I’ve blogged about before in an entry about Accelerating complexity . The term though seems ideal since all the extra capability...
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One of the effects of taking advantage of the edge is the increase in information flow coming in through various techniques (e.g., RFID, mobile devices, sensors). There is concern that with all this information flowing in we’ll be overwhelmed, but that’s where smart devices and attention engineering...
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We were doing an exercise this week to look at problems differently. Part of it was to look at current trends and determine what is going to be abundant and what effect that has on our thinking. So for example going out a decade or so, there will be something like 16 times as much compute capacity as...
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Changes in Human Computer Interface is critical to the next big shift in computing. In this blog, I've mentioned attention management and other context-aware techniques. This article from the ACM queue looks at many of these same issues, both from a historical and future vision perspective.
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I've mentioned in the past the role of pattern recognition changing in the future. Currently, most organizations confine their business intelligence (BI) use to highly skilled analysts. These analysts are expected to have deep industry and process expertise that helps them make sense of what the...
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A while back, I put a blog entry about the need to put information in context to maximize the use of attention. That's great, but it appears designing an effective system to generate the right result may be more complex than that. This article talks about a Dutch study that shows the best decisions...
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I was at a Burn’s supper this week in Scotland and the person sitting next to me attended one of the presentation sessions EDS did where we were talking about earlier in the week. We were talking about the next big thing in IT. My presentation was around event stream processing and how unique may...
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There have been a number of entries in the blog in the past related to context awareness. This week Richard Veryard had a number of entries in his blog related to context awareness. They resonated with some of the things Jeff Wacker and I were talking about with an audience today. Context awareness and...
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I was reading ComputerWorld this weekend and there was an article titled: How Did I Miss That? , that caught my attention. In the past, I've mentioned issues about attention management and information overload . This article was an interview with Max Bazerman who has done some work on why it actually...