Human beings often make decisions without fully realizing the factors that influence their choices. A woman buys the same type of car that most of her neighbors drive despite it being too small for her needs. A man at a salad bar loads up on the croutons that are in the first row of items […]
Is the Internet influencing the way we think? If so, how? Nicholas Carr, author of the Pulitzer-nominated book “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains?” will join us for a discussion of the cognitive and intellectual effects of digital media.
Brief Bio
Nicholas Carr writes about technology, culture, and economics. […]
Stories abound about how creative people believe that the aspects of their settings — including the spaces they inhabit along with the tools and materials they use — are important to their creative process. Anecdotes relay how Immanuel Kant felt he needed the church steeple view from his bedroom window to be creative, Proust preferred to work in a cork-lined room, and […]
One of the “hottest” topics these days is based on reports (from Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Michigan, Penn) that over 100 000 students sign up for classes taught about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, etc.. This is advertised as follows (from https://www.coursera.org/): Education for Everyone.
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Given the overwhelming evidence that current energy use by humans contributes to global warming, reducing our non-renewable energy consumption is a worthwhile endeavor. But in order to reduce our consumption we must first better understand it, and unfortunately the implications of our usage largely go unnoticed. This ignorance is likely rooted in the interactions most […]
Global energy consumption is at unsustainable levels and to reduce it, renewable energies and increased energy efficiency have to be combined with changes in behavior. Common approaches to ‘motivate’ people to use less energy are increasing energy prices or starting energy competitions between consumers. Both have repeatedly been shown to actually reduce intrinsic motivation and […]
“The mission of L3D is to establish the scientific foundations for the envisionment, design, development, and assessment of socio-technical systems that serve as amplifiers of human capabilities and that will bring dramatic and transformative improvements in the ways people live, learn, work, and collaborate.” Our areas of application have ranged across topics including the design […]
Abstract
Based on the assumption that the scarce resource for many people in the world of today is not information but human attention, the challenge for future human-centered computer systems is not to provide more information “to anyone, at anytime, and from anywhere,” but to say “the ‘right’ information, at the ‘right’ time, in the […]
Exploring Fundamental Transformations of Learning and Discovery in Cultures of Participation
The purpose of this symposium is to discuss our advancements within NSF grant 1028017. You can download the entire project proposal here: CDI-2010-FullProposal, as well as supplemental information on research design and the after-school program discussed in the proposal here: Additional-Info-ResearchDesign.
For over a year and a half Craftopolis has been deployed as an activity in a local elementary school’s after school program. Throughout this time, Craftopolis, a construction kit for creating craft based interactive worlds, has evolved through feedback and suggestions from both students and undergraduate mentors from the University of Colorado. During this presentation […]
