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Defend Values – How?

Paper View Plain Text View In the senior PLA class, we had a speaker come in to talk about courage and values. The theme was to be courageous enough to defend your values if they are challenged. I appreciated the connection of values and courage as this is how and why...

article analysis

Click to access Grossklags-CSCW2013.pdf   Wang begins by discussing privacy concerns surrounding social media applications and other online platforms. The study aims overall to evaluate different design options for the privacy setting pop ups / customization screens....

Design and Privacy

With the rise of big data and IoT, information privacy is an ongoing concern. How can companies help ease the discomfort and ignorance of users when deciding whether to share their information or not? Below is a study focused on how the design of the privacy setting...

Interesting Paper on Cognitive Modeling

As I am interested in both technology and psychology, I have grown very interested in cognitive modeling. Cognitive modeling is a fairly popular field studied in the College of IST. I wanted to share an interesting paper from an IST faculty member about cognitive...

Digital Maps Can Be Complicated

Thought this was a really interesting article. Seems we often times forget just how much works goes into having an accurate digital map and how many factors play a key role in that proccess. Check it out: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2517946 Dr. Maitland explores...

Overview: Rise of People Analytics

Although employee engagement is the most popular human system measurement tool in industry today, top consulting firms are instructing clients to take their human system measurement to the next level. This HR trend, practiced by companies such as Google, Best Buy, and...

Thoughts on ICT Study

Had some thoughts on this interesting article. http://itidjournal.org/index.php/itid/article/view/1050 The study aims to analyze articles published in the journal Information Technologies and International Development. Key considerations for the study were...

Brief Evolution of Human Systems Measurement

Historically, the common human system measurement has been job satisfaction. It’s connection with job performance arose in the 1930s following the Hawthorne studies. Although an older metric, it is still actively used by organizations as a key performance indicator of...

Usability Opinion

Found this opinion piece on usability. The piece strongly criticizes tech firms, but I disagree with several claims. http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/gestural_interfaces_a_step_backwards_in_usability_6.html Don Norman and Jakob Nielsen claim that there is an overall decrease...