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March 2, 2022

WIRED: Google’s New Tech Can Read Your Body Language—Without Cameras

WIRED: Google’s New Tech Can Read Your Body Language—Without Cameras . “It sounds futuristic and perhaps more than a little invasive—a computer watching your every move? But it feels less creepy once you learn that these technologies don’t have to rely on a camera to see where you are and what you’re doing. Instead, they use radar. Google’s Advanced Technology and Products division—better known as ATAP, the department behind oddball projects such as a touch-sensitive denim jacket—has spent the past year exploring how computers can use radar to understand our needs or intentions and then react to us appropriately.”

September 5, 2020

ScienceBlog: Your Paper Notebook Could Become Your Next Tablet

ScienceBlog: Your Paper Notebook Could Become Your Next Tablet. “Innovators from Purdue University hope their new technology can help transform paper sheets from a notebook into a music player interface and make food packaging interactive. Purdue engineers developed a simple printing process that renders any paper or cardboard packaging into a keyboard, keypad or other easy-to-use human-machine interfaces. This technology is published in the Aug. 23 edition of Nano Energy.”

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June 28, 2016

Eight Principles of ‘Bot Design

Been thinking about possibly making your own ‘bot? Check out these Eight principles of ‘bot design. “Despite plenty of excitement it’s still unclear how conversational UIs can be made to work in a practical sense. But opinionated design principles can help us push past the hype, and design something real people will want to use every day.”

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June 21, 2016

Governing: Dot-Govs Get a Much-Needed Facelift

Governing: Dot-Govs Get a Much-Needed Facelift. “Is it time to give the government website a makeover? For years, city and state sites have been designed as portals through which the public could find as much information as possible. The motto was clearly, ‘the more, the better.’ But the result has been an overwhelming hodgepodge of columns and boxes filled with tiny text, drop-down menus that run on and on, and buttons everywhere.”

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May 28, 2016

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist

There is a lot to think about here: How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist – “I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked. When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want to show you where it might do the opposite.”

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May 8, 2016

Scientific American: What’s Wrong with Open-Data Sites — and How We Can Fix Them

From Scientific American: What’s Wrong with Open-Data Sites–and How We Can Fix Them. “Imagine shopping in a supermarket where every item is stored in boxes that look exactly the same. Some are filled with cereal, others with apples, and others with shampoo. Shopping would be an absolute nightmare! The design of most open data sites—the (usually government) sites that distribute census, economic and other data to be used and redistributed freely—is not exactly equivalent to this nightmarish supermarke. But it’s pretty close.”

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WIRED: Google’s New Tech Can Read Your Body Language—Without Cameras

ScienceBlog: Your Paper Notebook Could Become Your Next Tablet

Eight Principles of ‘Bot Design

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist

Scientific American: What’s Wrong with Open-Data Sites — and How We Can Fix Them

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