20/09/2018
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Ich gehe heute Abend auf eine Veranstaltung wo das Thema Nudging diskutiert wird und bin schon seeehr gespannt. Ich hoffe, mein *Confirmation Bias* steht mir nicht allzusehr im Weg, denn meine Position zu “sanften Stupsern” oder dem “libertären Paternalismus” – … Continue reading
07/09/2018
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via GIPHY Image: Cooperation, exemplary image. ;) The famous robbers cave field experiment conducted by Muzafer Sherif (1954, 1958, 1961) investigated how and why group conflicts occur. Sherif argued that conflict between groups (intergroup conflicts) occur in case of two … Continue reading
25/06/2018
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Look after yourself. 1, Celebrate small things2, Celebrate big things3, Don't compare4, Make time for exercise5, Eat well6, Look for the good7, Stop being so hard on yourself8, Have some rest. And don't feel guilty about it9, Give yourself a … Continue reading
16/05/2018
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“In short, GDPR will make privacy a mandatory design principle–and, in doing so, may redefine the profession.” Great article on why designers should care about the GDPR. Because it makes us rembember that we are designing products for people not … Continue reading
12/05/2018
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"Our acceptance of seemingly autonomous voice assistants will depend on trust. And trust demands being able to distinguish when we’re talking to a human and when we’re talking to an AI.”https://t.co/xFEqIY0qE4 — Anna Dahlström (@annadahlstrom) May 12, 2018 See also: … Continue reading
12/05/2018
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The video above contains a very short introduction to the chinese room argument, introduced by philosopher John Searle in the 1980 in his essay “Minds, Brains and Programs”. and it fits to my last post about Googles Duplex natural speech … Continue reading
09/03/2018
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Always good to remember: Image was taken at our January Ladies that UX Berlin meetup, the talk was held by Heike van Geel
25/11/2017
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I am fed up with the way we are all being frogmarched towards driverless cars. What I really want is carless cities. — Owen Barder (@owenbarder) November 19, 2017
21/11/2017
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“[…] After all, fitting in as a machine-readable cog into the database of ideas gets you a faster start. But it’s also the best way to be ignored, because you’ve chosen to be one of the many […]” He is … Continue reading
21/11/2017
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via GIPHY “Wir sind permanent am Scrollen und checken, ob jemand seinen Status upgedatet hat. Problem: Das Design vieler Apps befeuert bewusst diese Sucht nach Information. Hauptsache, die Verweildauer stimmt. Brauchen wir höhere ethische Maßstäbe beim Design von Apps & … Continue reading
01/11/2017
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I’m trying to work on that. I wish I could be the kind of listener exemplified in this fantastic sketchnote by @scriberian Thanks @sherrillknezel pic.twitter.com/UAdjdCIwGG — Helen Bevan (@helenbevan) November 1, 2017
27/10/2017
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This is pretty cool: The „Ethics for Design“ documentary is exploring the role of a designer and design in our societies.
25/10/2017
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The goal of design is to gain full understanding. Why would you want to hurry that up? — Alan Cooper (@MrAlanCooper) October 24, 2017
05/09/2017
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“Like chess, a social interaction is typically a transaction between social partners. One animal may, for instance, wish by his own behaviour to change the behaviour of another; but since the second animal is himself reactive and intelligent the interaction … Continue reading
14/07/2017
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Interesting Radio Interview (in German) about meetings with organizational psychologist Felix Brodbeck (LMU Munich) in which he is talking about decision making and problem-solving in groups and also: group-dynamics and “deutsche Nörgelkultur”. :) https://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/swr2-forum/verschwenden-wir-mit-konferenzen-unsere-zeit/-/id=660214/did=13846846/nid=660214/ua8uzn/index.html
05/07/2017
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“Can a broken robot break a child?” Awesome Sherry Turkle about conversation in the digital age and how replacing face-to-face communication with smartphones (or even growing up in company with digital assistants, smart toys, and bots and connect emotionally with … Continue reading
20/06/2017
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A great real world example of contextual help.
29/03/2017
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„People performing in systems have in common that they are each somebody, doing something, someplace” Human Performance Model (Bailey, 1996) So we have three components to consider here as claimed in Bailey’s Model of human performance. The human (people with … Continue reading
16/03/2017
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Question: Which goes with the cow together? Or: Which two items go together? Please answer spontaneously for yourself (your first thought) I recently stumpled upon this again and I think it’s a quite interesting test and food for thought. What … Continue reading
10/03/2017
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This is just great! Daniel Kunin, a student of Brown university has created a visual introduction to statistics! As we learned in our university stats course understanding (basic) statistics and especially the term “statistical significance” is becoming more and more … Continue reading