Category: Events
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Mobile Persuasion 2007: Triggering Changes in Attitudes and Behavior
BJ Fogg and his colleagues brought together an interesting and diverse collection of researchers, developers, designers, entrepreneurs and [other] activists at the Mobile Persuasion conference at Stanford University recently to discuss and debate the use of mobile technology to change people’s beliefs and behaviors. The twelve pages of notes I took are evidence that I…
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Web-2-Mobile Business Plan Competition
I was surprised that Nokia was not among the sponsors of the recent Under the Radar Mobility Conference I attended, at which 32 entrepreneurs pitched their mobile products and services. A number of other major players in the mobile web space were represented at the event as sponsors and/or panelists, e.g., Motorola Ventures, Intel Capital,…
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Under the Radar Mobility Conference
I attended the IBDNetwork‘s Under the Radar Mobility Conference at the Microsoft Conference Center in Mountain View yesterday. Being rather new to the mobile technology space, it was an informative and enlightening experience for me, helping me better appreciate the challenges in creating successful mobile products and services. And although the presentations were informative, relatively…
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Social Artificial Intelligence: Objective vs. Subjective Reality (and Representation)
Timo Honkela, Chief Scientist of the Adaptive Informatics Research Centre at the Helsinki University of Technology, and head of the Computational Cognitive Systems group there, visited Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, today, and presented a talk on Social Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Devices. Timo stressed the importance of viewing intelligence in a social context (vs.…
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Computer Supported Cooperative Whatever: Reflections on Work, Play and Passion at CSCW 2006
As I reflected upon the reflections that were offered during the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2006) last week — and some of my notes on CSCW 2006 — a promiment theme that emerged [for me] was the tension between professionalism and playfulness. The conference, which celebrated its 20th year anniversary this…
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CSCW 2006: Notes on the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
The ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2006) was held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, last week. The conference, which celebrated its 20th year anniversary this year, included 62 papers and notes, dozens of demonstrations and interactive posters, three panels and a pair of keynotes, and was attended by approximately 400 people. Unfortunately, due…
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Everyone’s a Nerd About Something: The Network Effects of Social Mobile Media
Marc Davis, Social Media Guru at Yahoo!, gave a far ranging presentation on "Mobile Media: Connecting Context, Content and Community" at the Stanford Mobile Computing Seminar this week. Marc started out highlighting the imbalance between the proportion of people who currently consume and produce text and consume other types of digital media (music, photos, videos),…
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Johathan Keats on Art, Science and Religion
Jonathan Keats gave a curiously engaging presentation on "Extraterrestrial Aesthetics, Divine Genetics, and Other Thought Experiments" at the Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium of UC Berkeley’s Center for New Media Monday night. Jonathan noted that both art and science are too inwardly focused, so he uses art to tease out nuances in science, and science…
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Spiritual Computing: Toward Meaningful, perhaps Transcendental, User Experiences
Craig Warren Smith visited Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, on Thursday to present and discuss some ideas relating to Spiritual Computing. As Craig describes it: Spiritual Computing (Spiricomp) elicits the potential of digital networks for fostering the spiritual growth among individuals and communities. … The investigative method of Spiricomp is unusual. Made possible by HH…