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2024-03-13 07:16:06     Workplace AI, robots and trackers are bad for quality of life, study finds | Business | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ty-of-life-institute-for-work

“We found that quality of life improved as the frequency of interaction with ICTs increased, whereas quality of life deteriorated as frequency of interaction with newer workplace technologies rose,” the report said.

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2024-02-06 06:52:58     Peak–end rule - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%E2%80%93end_rule

The peak–end rule is a psychological heuristic in which people judge an experience largely based on how they felt at its peak (i.e., its most intense point) and at its end, rather than based on the total sum or average of every moment of ...

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2024-01-05 06:23:47    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67872693

Harry Potter, Elon Musk, Beyoncé, Super Mario and Vladimir Putin.

These are just some of the millions of artificial intelligence (AI) personas you can talk to on Character.ai - a popular platform where anyone can create chatbots based on ...

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2022-09-29 13:33:49     SCHI Lab - OWidgets

https://multi-sensory.info/index.php/componen.../11-owidgets

Olfactory interactions and interfaces are extremely rele... of use and application contexts, from entertainment to r... supporting learning experiences to enhancing the creatio... experiences such as in virtual and augmented environments.

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2022-03-23 20:11:08     StoryKit: An Object-Based Media Toolkit - BBC R&D

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/object-based-media-toolkit

We've taken object-based media to the next level by supp... creators with tools and workflows that enable real-world... responsive object-based experiences

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2020-09-25 12:18:21     'I'm extremely controversial': the psychologist rethinking human emotion | Science and nature books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...gist-rethinking-human-emotion

How we interpret our feelings depends on where and how w... says professor Lisa Feldman Barrett - and not understand... our lives harder

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2020-06-21 09:49:36    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53093613

The first time Steve Saylor fired up the hotly-anticipated new game The Last of Us Part II, he burst into tears.

"Y'all don't even know how much..." he says between sobs in his video of the moment, which has now had nearly half a million v...

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2017-12-16 18:00:14     Can I Leave This One Out? The Effect of Dropping an Item From the SUSJUS

http://uxpajournal.org/dropping-item-sus/

There are times when user experience practitioners might... System Usability Scale (SUS), but there is an item that ... in their context of measurement. For example, the first ... I would like to use this system frequently.” If the sy... one that wo

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2017-06-15 21:32:04     Lima – The first Cloud that respects your privacy

https://meetlima.com/index.php?lang=en

Keep your personal files safe at home. Access them from ... the beauty of the Personal Cloud.

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2017-06-15 21:16:00     When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archiv.../283865/?...

During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we o... steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared b... couple.

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2017-04-10 08:01:48     Why algorithms aren't working for women

http://www.feministcurrent.com/...ithms-arent-working-women/

Algorithms are everywhere. They’re the unnoticed mecha... determine everything from the temperature in your office... your Facebook feed, to the information Google shows you ... But there’s one big problem: these algorithms are not ... value-neutr

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2017-04-10 08:01:48     Why algorithms aren't working for women

http://www.feministcurrent.com/...ithms-arent-working-women/

Algorithms are everywhere. They’re the unnoticed mecha... determine everything from the temperature in your office... your Facebook feed, to the information Google shows you ... But there’s one big problem: these algorithms are not ... value-neutr

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2017-04-10 07:21:46     Inside Your Users’ Minds: The Cultural Probe · An A List Apart Article

https://alistapart.com/article/culturalprobe

By analyzing the results of your cultural probe, you can... of how users behave: what they love and hate, what motiv... what they do and why. Solutions based on this knowledge ... give users what they need, rather than what they say the... also help i

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2017-02-14 10:57:46     University attacked by its own vending machines, smart light bulbs & 5,000 IoT devices | Network World

http://www.networkworld.com/...bs-and-5-000-iot-devices.html

Today’s cautionary tale comes from Verizon’s sneak p... 2017 Data Breach Digest scenario. It involves an unnamed... seafood searches, and an IoT botnet; hackers used the un... vending machines and other IoT devices to attack the uni... network.

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2017-02-01 21:38:41    

http://emotions.periscopic.com/inauguration/?...

The inaugural address contains the first words uttered b... It is an untarnished moment during which the American le... presidential tone, inspire a country, put an election to...
An examination of the facial expressions of the last six ...
Shown here

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2017-01-29 19:50:37     Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked in rooms - The Local

http://www.thelocal.at/...-hackers-as-guests-locked-in-rooms

One of Europe's top hotels has admitted they had to pay ... Bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who managed to hack the... system, locking hundreds of guests in or out of their ro... was paid.

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2016-12-25 08:31:14     From yoga pants to smart shoes: The technology of touch - BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38385039?CMP=share_btn_me

Imagine being able to navigate the streets just by recei... your footwear. Or feeling a tingle in your yoga tights i... position needs improvement.
And what if you could feel the things you're touching as ...
This is the science of haptics, the intersec

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2016-12-06 14:33:06     Solid

https://solid.mit.edu/

Solid is an exciting new project led by Prof. Tim Berner... the World Wide Web, taking place at MIT and the Qatar Co... Institute. The project aims to radically change the way ... work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as ...

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2016-11-02 10:32:25     Human brain is predisposed to negative stereotypes, new study suggests | Science | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...tereotypes-new-study-suggests

rain responds more strongly to information about unfavou... groups, offering clues as to how prejudice emerges and s... shows

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2016-10-21 08:07:33     Text Samples

https://kevinmarks.github.io/colourandcontrast.html

Color and contrast
Contrast ratios illustrated

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2016-10-20 09:11:33     How the Web Became Unreadable

https://backchannel.com/...ecame-unreadable-a781ddc711b6#...

For example: Apple’s typography guidelines suggest tha... for a 7:1 contrast ratio. But what ratio, you might ask,... to state the guideline? It’s 5.5:1.
Apple’s guidelines for developers.

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2016-09-29 14:52:29     Microsoft's Internet Business Gets a New Kind of Processor | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/...oft-bets-future-chip-reprogram-fly/

It’s a typical tangle of tech acronyms. CPUs. GPUs. TP... it’s the subtext that matters. With cloud computing, c... Microsoft and Google and Amazon are driving so much of t... technology that those alternative chips will drive the w... apps and on

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2016-04-29 11:52:12    

https://www.newscientist.com/...es-our-feelings-about-words/

But keyboards may have an impact on the emotional associations we have with words as well. It has been found that words consisting of a higher proportion of letters from the right-hand side of a QWERTY keyboard – those from “y”, “h⮮.

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2016-04-29 09:54:19    

https://theintercept.com/...ekness-fear-and-self-censorship/

A newly published study from Oxford’s Jon Penney provides empirical evidence for a key argument long made by privacy advocates: that the mere existence of a surveillance state breeds fear and conformity and stifles free expression. Report...

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2016-04-18 12:44:36     The Scarlett Johansson Bot Is the Robotic Future of Objectifying Women | WIRED

http://www.wired.com/...s-some-icky-things-about-our-future/

AS ROBOTICS AND 3-D printing technologies become more ac... tinkerers, men are (of course) building robots of beauti... who’s turned on a TV in the past decade shouldn’t be... that one of the first—and creepiest—examples of this...
News broke

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2016-04-18 12:44:36     The Scarlett Johansson Bot Is the Robotic Future of Objectifying Women | WIRED

http://www.wired.com/...s-some-icky-things-about-our-future/

AS ROBOTICS AND 3-D printing technologies become more ac... tinkerers, men are (of course) building robots of beauti... who’s turned on a TV in the past decade shouldn’t be... that one of the first—and creepiest—examples of this...
News broke

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2016-04-18 12:43:40     Google's Nest closing smart-home company Revolv, bricking devices - Business Insider

http://uk.businessinsider.com/...olv-bricking-devices-2016-4

Nest, a smart-home company owned by Google's holding com... dropping support for a line of products — and will mak... existing devices completely useless.
It's a move that has infuriated some customers, and rais ...

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2016-04-11 07:58:30     Internet mapping turned a remote farm into a digital hell | Fusion

http://fusion.net/st.../internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/

for the last 14 years, every time MaxMind’s database h... about the location of an IP address in the United States... identify, it has spit out the default location of a spot... from the geographic center of the country. This happens ...
Which happe

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2016-04-10 14:26:03     How Big Data Harms Poor Communities - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive.../477423/?...

Outside the court system, “innocent until proven guilt... people’s due-process rights, Kerr says: “A right to ... to participate in one’s hearing, a right to know what ... collected about me, and a right to challenge that inform... opaque data

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2016-04-10 10:37:41     Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji | GroupLens

http://grouplens.org/...or-miscommunication-using-emoji/?...

Hey emoji users: Did you know that when you send your fr... Nexus, they might see  on their iPhone? And it’s not... of thing can happen for all emoji (yes, even ). In a pa... will be officially published at AAAI ICWSM in May, we sh... problem can

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