Via Nick Diakopoulos, I see that Google News has added badges, awarded for reading an number of articles on a certain topics. You earn them privately and can then share them. Nick has some thoughts on his blog. I agree with a lot of Nick’s thoughts. Having validated reading behavior is useful – though it’s [...]
Tagged badges, gamification, google news, newsLast week, Sunlight Labs released Inbox Influence, a set of browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox) and bookmarklets that annotate senders and entities in the body of emails with who has contributed to them and to whom they have contributed. I really like the idea of using browser plugins to annotate information people encounter in their regular [...]
Tagged politics, privacy, recordsI want to take few minutes to highlight a few papers from CHI 2011, spread across a couple of posts. There was lots of good work at this conference. This post will focus on papers in the persuasive technology and social software for health and wellness space, which is the aspect of my work that [...]
Tagged chi, chi2011, health, mindful technology, mindfulness, persuasive technology, research, social influence, social software, wellnessOn Monday, I had the pleasure of visiting Malcolm McCullough’s Architecture 531 – Networked Cities for final presentations. Many of the students in the class are from SI, where we talk a lot about incentive-centered design, choice architecture, and persuasive technology, which seems to have resulted in many of the projects having a persuasive technology [...]
Tagged design, mindful technology, persuasive technology, researchFor those interested in the software that drives the SIDisplay, SI master’s student Morgan Keys has been working to make a generalized and improved version available. You can find it, under the name “@display” at this GitHub repository. SIDisplay is a Twitter-based public display described in a CSCW paper with Paul Resnick and Emily Rosengren. [...]
Tagged @display, public display, research, sidisplay, social software, twitterThere’s a lot to like about the recent changes to Facebook, but, as an application developer, many of the changes are a mixed bag. Changes to navigation and to interaction points between Facebook and applications are problematic, while new application privacy features are a good start but seem incomplete. Navigation to Apps Formerly, the application [...]
Tagged design, facebookThe first of my social software for wellness applications is available on Facebook (info page). Three Good Things supports a positive psychology exercise in which participants record three good things, and why these things happened. When completed daily – even on the bad days – over time, participants report increased happiness and decreased symptoms of [...]
Tagged facebook, happiness, positive psychology, research, social software, three good things, three positive things, wellnessIn a post describing some teens’ use of Twitter and Facebook (Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody; some teens are using private Twitter accounts for communication with friends because Twitter is too public), danah boyd poses the following question: My guess is that if Twitter does take off among teens and Dylan’s friends feel [...]
Tagged facebook, identity, privacy, twitterIn early September, I attended WikiSym 08 in Porto, Portugal, so this post is nearly two months overdue. In addition to presenting a short paper on the use of a wiki to enhance organizational memory and sharing in a Boeing workgroup, I participated on the WikiFest panel organized by Stewart Mader. Since then, a couple [...]
Tagged collaboration, conference, cscw, research, wikiThe New York Times has a nice writeup on some of the ways companies are using prediction markets. One of the examples given is Best Buy’s use of an internal prediction market to forecast potential delays in products or services, and to catch these delays in time to prevent further slips. I tend to agree [...]
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