I gave this talk at Frontiers of Interaction (http://frontiersofinteraction.com/) in Rome.
Transcript: http://johannakoll.posterous.com/connecting-the-dots-my-talk-at-frontiers-of-i
Note: the audio is a recording of a quite fast-paced rehearsal. The audio from the presentation, including me improvising a little song, will be available as a UIE podcast.
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Humans are creatures of habit who find dealing with change difficult. Even when we’ve planned and desired it, its manifestation scares us.
As UX designers, we’re often the ones who make changes tangible. Sometimes met with love, more often met with resistance.
Drawing from psychology, philosophy and change management theory, this IA Summit 2011 session discusses how e.g. re-designs like the new Twitter, incremental changes to Facebook, or the updates to Meetup.com were introduced, communicated and received.
And it’s not only about consumer products. A new tool or software can change how people go about their daily work. Without their buy-in, the best design fails. The website we’re building for our client can cause them to re-think their approach to content, development, or their internal structure. This can be challenging. How can UX help to make the project successful?
#OccupyInnovation_Keynote on Design Thinking in the Enterprise at HTGT Summit...Moodi Mahmoudi
Innovation is not an art, but a science. Many seem to believe innovation is some sort of magical craft, able to be harnessed only by voodoo masters, visionaries gifted with special abilities. That belief is false. The capabilities needed to crack innovation’s code might not occur innately in all people, but it can certainly be embedded, replicated, and scaled at all levels of any organization. By being question-centric, building on insights rather than ideas, and hardwiring processes rooted in design thinking, the veil is lifted from what was once thought impossible — innovation for everyone, every day.
#OccupyInnovation at Booking.com Annual Meeting 2017Moodi Mahmoudi
I spoke about just that at this year’s Booking.com Annual Meeting, addressing an audience on the importance of blowing past the barriers that have been holding us back, making innovation something for everyone, every day. It’s our #OccupyInnovation outlook to the industry. My talk focused on three “to-dos” to accomplish this feat.
Instagram ist im Wandel. Von der Foto-Sharing Plattform ist die App zum dynamischen Zentrum des gesamten Facebook Enviroments geworden.
Aber was bringt 2019 - IGTV, mehr Stories, Messenger und vielleicht sogar Payment.
Act like a child_Closing Keynote World Healthcare Forum_The Hague_29Nov2016Moodi Mahmoudi
When it comes to innovation within an organization, there is often an enormous gap between ambition — what we want to achieve — and performance — what we actually achieve.
The statistics are staggering. A recent McKinsey report shows that 84 percent of executives believe innovation is critical to their success. Only six percent, however, are satisfied with the actual innovation performance. That’s a 92 percent miss on target. There is no other function within an enterprise where the gap between ambition and actual performance is this large.
How can this be? Why are organizations failing to make innovation work?
It is because we aren’t asking good enough — much less the right — questions. And one of the key parts of making innovation smart, simple, and sticky is doing just that.
Agile Mindset - Duong Trong Tan 2014/09 @septeni technologyVu Hung Nguyen
Duong Trong Tan talks about Agile mindset at Septeni Technology.
Đôi điều từ tác giả:
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Trong buổi nói chuyện này, em sẽ tập trung thảo luận các phương diện triết học của Agile/Lean.
Đi từ khám phá đương đại của nhà khoa học của Stanford về fixed mindset vs growth mindset.
Đến quan niệm về mindset và tầm quan trọng của tư duy trong công việc.
Khảo sát các cách thức tư duy của những người hành dụng (Pragmatist), Lí thuyết về thực nghiệm (empiricism) vốn là triết lí đứng sau Scrum.
Cho đến diễn giải các tình huống phức hợp thông qua lăng kính của lý thuyết về hệ thống và hỗn độn (complex system).
Và quan điểm về Phronesis của Nonaka vốn là ông nội của Scrum.
Cuối cùng, sẽ dừng lại ở quan điểm về Kiến tạo tri thức (constructivism) để có thể trang bị một vài thứ cho mindset sắp đón nhận các đợt thay đổi tới đây.
Bài nói chuyện có thể sẽ hơi khó hiểu vì trình độ có hạn của diễn giả, nhưng chắc chắn là sẽ khác so với những buổi trò chuyện trong giới phần mềm trước đó.
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Note: the audio is a recording of a quite fast-paced rehearsal. The audio from the presentation, including me improvising a little song, will be available as a UIE podcast.
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Humans are creatures of habit who find dealing with change difficult. Even when we’ve planned and desired it, its manifestation scares us.
As UX designers, we’re often the ones who make changes tangible. Sometimes met with love, more often met with resistance.
Drawing from psychology, philosophy and change management theory, this IA Summit 2011 session discusses how e.g. re-designs like the new Twitter, incremental changes to Facebook, or the updates to Meetup.com were introduced, communicated and received.
And it’s not only about consumer products. A new tool or software can change how people go about their daily work. Without their buy-in, the best design fails. The website we’re building for our client can cause them to re-think their approach to content, development, or their internal structure. This can be challenging. How can UX help to make the project successful?
#OccupyInnovation_Keynote on Design Thinking in the Enterprise at HTGT Summit...Moodi Mahmoudi
Innovation is not an art, but a science. Many seem to believe innovation is some sort of magical craft, able to be harnessed only by voodoo masters, visionaries gifted with special abilities. That belief is false. The capabilities needed to crack innovation’s code might not occur innately in all people, but it can certainly be embedded, replicated, and scaled at all levels of any organization. By being question-centric, building on insights rather than ideas, and hardwiring processes rooted in design thinking, the veil is lifted from what was once thought impossible — innovation for everyone, every day.
#OccupyInnovation at Booking.com Annual Meeting 2017Moodi Mahmoudi
I spoke about just that at this year’s Booking.com Annual Meeting, addressing an audience on the importance of blowing past the barriers that have been holding us back, making innovation something for everyone, every day. It’s our #OccupyInnovation outlook to the industry. My talk focused on three “to-dos” to accomplish this feat.
Instagram ist im Wandel. Von der Foto-Sharing Plattform ist die App zum dynamischen Zentrum des gesamten Facebook Enviroments geworden.
Aber was bringt 2019 - IGTV, mehr Stories, Messenger und vielleicht sogar Payment.
Act like a child_Closing Keynote World Healthcare Forum_The Hague_29Nov2016Moodi Mahmoudi
When it comes to innovation within an organization, there is often an enormous gap between ambition — what we want to achieve — and performance — what we actually achieve.
The statistics are staggering. A recent McKinsey report shows that 84 percent of executives believe innovation is critical to their success. Only six percent, however, are satisfied with the actual innovation performance. That’s a 92 percent miss on target. There is no other function within an enterprise where the gap between ambition and actual performance is this large.
How can this be? Why are organizations failing to make innovation work?
It is because we aren’t asking good enough — much less the right — questions. And one of the key parts of making innovation smart, simple, and sticky is doing just that.
Agile Mindset - Duong Trong Tan 2014/09 @septeni technologyVu Hung Nguyen
Duong Trong Tan talks about Agile mindset at Septeni Technology.
Đôi điều từ tác giả:
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Trong buổi nói chuyện này, em sẽ tập trung thảo luận các phương diện triết học của Agile/Lean.
Đi từ khám phá đương đại của nhà khoa học của Stanford về fixed mindset vs growth mindset.
Đến quan niệm về mindset và tầm quan trọng của tư duy trong công việc.
Khảo sát các cách thức tư duy của những người hành dụng (Pragmatist), Lí thuyết về thực nghiệm (empiricism) vốn là triết lí đứng sau Scrum.
Cho đến diễn giải các tình huống phức hợp thông qua lăng kính của lý thuyết về hệ thống và hỗn độn (complex system).
Và quan điểm về Phronesis của Nonaka vốn là ông nội của Scrum.
Cuối cùng, sẽ dừng lại ở quan điểm về Kiến tạo tri thức (constructivism) để có thể trang bị một vài thứ cho mindset sắp đón nhận các đợt thay đổi tới đây.
Bài nói chuyện có thể sẽ hơi khó hiểu vì trình độ có hạn của diễn giả, nhưng chắc chắn là sẽ khác so với những buổi trò chuyện trong giới phần mềm trước đó.
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Torin Ellis's presentation at the 2018 Michigan Recruiter's Conference held in Detroit, MI onsite at General Motor's HQ. Torin challenges us to raise the level of commitment around D&I practices in our organizations.
Distributed Software Development: Make It Run / Make It Right, Make It StickJeff Langr
Slides for a 45-minute talk around distributed experiences, including a few tips and a recommendation for using mob programming to help cohere a distributed team.
How Technology is Changing the Future of LearningDavid Kelly
These slides were used in support of a keynote I delivered at the 2015 eACH Conference.
If you're interested in bringing this talk/workshop into your event or organization, please contact me at LnDDave@gmail.com.
Why do some companies flourish while others wither away? I have been looking and some of the most effective companies in the world and these are 7 habits and patterns I have seen over and over again.
Why do some companies flourish while others wither away? I have been looking and some of the most effective companies in the world and these are 7 habits and patterns I have seen over and over again.
Why do some companies flourish while others wither away? I have been looking and some of the most effective companies in the world and these are 7 habits and patterns I have seen over and over again.
Presentations: What Every Planner Needs to KnowRyan Link
Four-hour training on presentation methods for planners. Credit to Garr Reynolds, Presentation Zen; Cliff Atkinson, Beyond Bullet Points; Tim Koegel, The Exceptional Presenter.
Integrating JTBD into existing tools & frameworks / Jobs-to-be-Done Meetup Be...Martin Jordan
How do you link the Jobs-to-be-Done approach to the tools, methods and frameworks you are already using? After investigating the JTBD framework, the timeline, the four motivational forces and the retrospective interview technique, we spent an evening discussing the connections and possible integrations with related fields and disciplines, including:
• Value creation (marketing)
• Value proposition canvas & business model canvas (business design & modelling)
• Market segmentation (marketing)
• How might we questions (design thinking & ideation)
• Customer journey map (service design & development)
What do people use a service for? What problem are they trying to solve? This edition of Service Design Drinks introduced to a tool based on the increasingly popular jobs-to-be-done framework. It helps you to better understand problems with a fresh approach by examining contexts and describing desired outcomes.
This edition’s presenters Thomas Hütter, Hannes Jentsch and Martin Jordan are system and experience designers at HERE, a Nokia business. In the past year they reviewed the internal design processes and explored new tools that are worth sharing.
This poster was prepared for the 2011 Celebration of Scholarship at John Carroll University.
A major in Social Entrepreneurship teaches students to think critically and creatively, identifying innovative opportunities that solve social problems. It utilizes entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage purpose-driven ventures that create a positive change for society. Social Entrepreneurs are self-motivated individuals that strive toward the risky pursuit of an articulated mission.
See the proposal here: http://www.slideshare.net/TomWeinandy/major-in-social-entrepreneurship-proposal
Torin Ellis's presentation at the 2018 Michigan Recruiter's Conference held in Detroit, MI onsite at General Motor's HQ. Torin challenges us to raise the level of commitment around D&I practices in our organizations.
Distributed Software Development: Make It Run / Make It Right, Make It StickJeff Langr
Slides for a 45-minute talk around distributed experiences, including a few tips and a recommendation for using mob programming to help cohere a distributed team.
How Technology is Changing the Future of LearningDavid Kelly
These slides were used in support of a keynote I delivered at the 2015 eACH Conference.
If you're interested in bringing this talk/workshop into your event or organization, please contact me at LnDDave@gmail.com.
Why do some companies flourish while others wither away? I have been looking and some of the most effective companies in the world and these are 7 habits and patterns I have seen over and over again.
Why do some companies flourish while others wither away? I have been looking and some of the most effective companies in the world and these are 7 habits and patterns I have seen over and over again.
Why do some companies flourish while others wither away? I have been looking and some of the most effective companies in the world and these are 7 habits and patterns I have seen over and over again.
Presentations: What Every Planner Needs to KnowRyan Link
Four-hour training on presentation methods for planners. Credit to Garr Reynolds, Presentation Zen; Cliff Atkinson, Beyond Bullet Points; Tim Koegel, The Exceptional Presenter.
Integrating JTBD into existing tools & frameworks / Jobs-to-be-Done Meetup Be...Martin Jordan
How do you link the Jobs-to-be-Done approach to the tools, methods and frameworks you are already using? After investigating the JTBD framework, the timeline, the four motivational forces and the retrospective interview technique, we spent an evening discussing the connections and possible integrations with related fields and disciplines, including:
• Value creation (marketing)
• Value proposition canvas & business model canvas (business design & modelling)
• Market segmentation (marketing)
• How might we questions (design thinking & ideation)
• Customer journey map (service design & development)
What do people use a service for? What problem are they trying to solve? This edition of Service Design Drinks introduced to a tool based on the increasingly popular jobs-to-be-done framework. It helps you to better understand problems with a fresh approach by examining contexts and describing desired outcomes.
This edition’s presenters Thomas Hütter, Hannes Jentsch and Martin Jordan are system and experience designers at HERE, a Nokia business. In the past year they reviewed the internal design processes and explored new tools that are worth sharing.
This poster was prepared for the 2011 Celebration of Scholarship at John Carroll University.
A major in Social Entrepreneurship teaches students to think critically and creatively, identifying innovative opportunities that solve social problems. It utilizes entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage purpose-driven ventures that create a positive change for society. Social Entrepreneurs are self-motivated individuals that strive toward the risky pursuit of an articulated mission.
See the proposal here: http://www.slideshare.net/TomWeinandy/major-in-social-entrepreneurship-proposal
How is Old School Diversity (something good to do and nice to have) shifting to 21st Century Cultural Competency (something critical in the success of all of our students in a global world)? Learn about culture, cultural competency, frameworks, and tools trending in independent schools. How is cultural competency a value added model that involves everyone, teaching and learning, school operation, and educational excellence? In the ever-changing landscape of demographics and diversity initiatives, school employees face the challenge of creating a classroom and school environment that goes beyond celebrations of heroes and holidays. Whether we are beginning the journey or far down the path into multiculturalism and inclusivity, there is always room to grow. What are some practical strategies and best practices to become the educator and school with whom all community members thrive?
2.5 Hour Presentation delivered to Advancing Leadership Program of Federal Way. Diversity Day. Humans communicate on many levels: spoken language, tone, body language, style and personality. The fact that we have complex cultural identities and a host of differing past experiences increases the probability of cross-cultural miscommunications. This workshop presents major cross-cultural communication theories, ways that cultural values, power, privilege and differences affect the way we communicate, tools for questioning assumptions, and ways to improve cross-cultural communications skills.
A presentation intended for social designers, social marketers and change agents who want to assist people in learning new behaviors rather than trying to change them.
Elevate: Launching & Leading A Social Media PracticeAdrian Parker
Presentation from 2012 Social Fresh East conference highlighting my development from a social media manager, to a social leader. Includes 7 areas of elevation all future & current leaders in the social industry must master.
Your head is spinning and your plate is full. Facebook, twitter, YouTube, flickr, Picasa, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, LinkedIn, Diigo, delicious, WordPress! As with the use of any tool, you need a sense of how to harness the greatest potential from social media without hurting yourself or your institution. After you strategize, you can start connecting so that the tools start to work for you. What can you be doing to prepare your school for the changing landscape of social media?
Presentation to the Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference 2010 in Limerick, Ireland. Describes Champlain College's process for developing a culture of assessment in its library.
Similar to Connecting the dots - Frontiers of Interaction 2012 (20)
When building digital products and services, we are designing complex systems.We need to think the customer experience through on several channels, figure out the system architecture, gain understanding through data and research, decide what to iterate... - not easy, but fun!
In this keynote talk given at Agile Cambridge 2016, Johanna introduces core systems thinking principles for designing better services, discussed how data and feedback mechanisms help us understand what is going on in a system, and addressed the challenge of bringing about change in a system.
User research, analytics, hypotheses and experiments: we are focused on gaining understanding through data, validating that our interventions bring about the (user) behaviour we desire. We design systems, the systems we design interact with other systems, and it’s all getting awfully complex. Can we truly understand what’s going on?
In this talk, Johanna will introduce you to core principles of systems thinking, and discuss how they relate to our work as designers of products, services, companies. What methods and tools can we employ to make sense of systems? How do we enable users to form a mental model of a system - and what role are we designing for our users?
Expect to walk away with some systems theory, some practical take-aways, and the insight that the system is always one step ahead of you.
The talk I gave at WebExpo 2014 in Prague! Slides only.
Here is the abstract:
Usability testing, focus groups, interviews, contextual inquiry, customer development - there are many names and techniques for gathering insights from your users, your customers. In recent years, agile software development and lean startup have changed how research is conducted, and have raised awareness of how important it is to understand who you are building your products for.
In this talk, Johanna will cover best practices for gathering insights in the context of product development. Her session will address questions such as:
* What techniques are best at the early stage of a product?
* What exactly is customer development and how is it different?
* What are the skills you need to turn research results into actionable insights that inform your product strategy?
Johanna will share her own story of being a researcher and product manager, how and why her practice has changed, and provide actionable advice on embedding research in your process.
Slides with notes for my workshop at Lean UX 2014. This is an iterated version of my 2013 workshop - different exercise, slightly different content, but much is similar. Includes link to handout!
Collaboration. Customers. Conflict? Bridging the Gap between Agile and UXjohanna kollmann
In 2000, Jesse James Garrett first published his The Elements of User Experience diagram. In 2001, a group of practitioners signed the Agile Manifesto. Since then, User Experience and agile approaches to software development have gained traction, and have influenced how we build digital products. In this talk at UX Day Graz, Johanna outlined the opportunities and challenges UX designers face when working in an agile context, shared some of the best practices to make Agile and UX work well together, and discussed why the Lean Startup approach is opening doors for UX.
Design is about envisioning a better future, and working towards making it happen. Changing the world around us by creating things is innately human. When we create together, magic can happen - or disaster can strike. These days, we take a job because of the people we work with. A great team is key for a startup to get investment. We strive to work in multi-skilled, balanced teams and end up spending a lot of time with our colleague-friends. Collaboration is such a joy, but often incredibly difficult.
In this talk, I look into what makes people play well together, and share what has helped me collaborate better. I share what I've learned about collaboration from UX, agile software development and lean startup, about cognitive diversity, the role of values and vision, and include some practical 'collaboration hacks'.
Lean Startup in Design Consulting: presented at Lean UX NYCjohanna kollmann
In this talk presented at Lean UX NYC 2013, I reflected on how lean startup is applied in a consulting context. This is an iterated second version of this talk, focused on the Lean UX NYC audience.
I gave a longer version of this talk, focused on UX designers, with Martina Schell at Interaction 13. You can watch that talk over here: http://vimeo.com/62646947
It's about people - how Agile and UX can play well togetherjohanna kollmann
Agile has grown up and become a widely adopted approach for delivering software. User Experience is maturing, and the value of good design is being recognised. Since 2006, I have been observing teams, talking to practitioners who are trying to bring the two together, and putting theory into practice in my own work.
In this talk, given at the GOTO Software Development 2012 in Copenhagen, I illustrate how the agile and the UX mindset have more in common than you think, share some (still emerging and changing) best practices for including UX work in an agile context, give examples for how you can use UX tools and techniques to spread people-centred thinking across your team, and get you excited about the hardest, but most rewarding aspect of our jobs: working with people to make something for people.
Making sense of messy problems - Systems Thinking for multi-channel UXjohanna kollmann
I gave this talk at the IA Summit in New Orleans on March 25, 2012. Here's the talk description:
It’s part of our job to talk to people to figure out complex situations. To build things people love, we have to understand not only users, but also the wider context we’re working in: people, systems, structures, business models, and more. The need to think the user experience through on several channels challenges us to envision a system that is cohesive and delivers delightful experiences.
Business analysis, computer science and psychology offer different frameworks and tools to help to make sense of a messy situation, to articulate and visualize the problem. In this talk, I will present a selection of techniques that are relevant to UX, such as Soft Systems Methodology or the Business Model Canvas.
You will walk away with:
- Knowledge about systems thinking theory
- An understanding of how systems thinking methods can be used as part of a UX process, incl. tools and techniques
The client & us!? Applying a balanced team mindset in agenciesjohanna kollmann
Presentation from the Balanced Team conference 2011.
My definition of a balanced team: a multi-skilled, collaborative team that is self-empowered, free to choose the best way to achieve what they’ve set out to do, with a culture of learning and skill-sharing. (How) can this work in an agency context? I address this question based on my current and previous work experience, as well as patterns I've observed.
How to get more than opinions: Interview techniques and advicejohanna kollmann
Given at the intro evening of Lean UX Machine Tel Aviv (http://leanuxmachine.com/ & http://leanuxmachine2011.tumblr.com/), this short talk on interview techniques introduces basic principles of how to facilitate qualitative research. Aimed at lean startups, I hope it will be relevant advice for 'getting out of the building'.
Shared under a Creative Commons with Attribution license :)
Beyond Co-design. How open collaboration formats can enhance your design proc...johanna kollmann
Open collaboration formats offer insights on how to engage, collaborate and bring ideas. This talk, presented at EuroIA 2010 (http://www.euroia.org/Programme.aspx) explores how co-creation formats like hackdays or design challenges can be used to enhance a co-design process, involving (lead) users, colleagues or clients.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf
Connecting the dots - Frontiers of Interaction 2012
1. Connecting the dots
Johanna Kollmann
@johannakoll
Frontiers of Interaction 2012, Rome
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Illustration by Josh Evnin:http://www.flickr.com/photos/jevnin/65560448/
14. A person’s ability to
contribute improves if
she can see a problem in
multiple ways and if
she can apply diverse
heuristics.
~ Scott Page
The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups,
Firms, Schools, And Societies (2007)
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15. How I decide what to do next
1. Toolkit
2. Collaborate
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18. How I decide what to do next
1. Toolkit
2. Collaborate
3. Values
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19. Values
represent our guiding principles:
our broadest motivations,
influencing the attitudes we hold
and how we act.
The Common Cause Handbook (2011). www.valuesandframes.org
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22. Enhance your toolkit and
explore new perspectives.
Seek out people who
approach things differently
to you.
Reflect on what grounds you.
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23. Some resources
Affinity sorting – KJ Technique: http://www.uie.com/articles/kj_technique/
Experience Map by Chris Risdon: http://adaptivepath.com/ideas/the-anatomy-of-
an-experience-map
Rich Picture: http://www.slideshare.net/johannakollmann/making-sense-of-
messy-problems-systems-thinking-for-multichannel-ux
Business Model Canvas by Alexander Osterwalder:
http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com
Scott Page: The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups,
Firms, Schools, And Societies (2007). http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8353.html
Values and Frames: The Common Cause Handbook (2011).
http://www.valuesandframes.org
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Editor's Notes
Affinity sort – create groups
Put things on a timeline – Experience Map
Map out connections – Rich Picture
Combine empathy for people with a better understanding of how a business delivers customer value – relate different perspectives
perspectives – mental models
cognitive diversitymake sense of things differentlybut also way of approachperspectivesbalanced team
do we reflect enough on how we approach things, ourselves and others? By understanding my colleagues approaches and needs I understand better where they are coming from, and what we need to do to work as a team. How we can harness this as skills rather than creating conflict.
Everyone holds all the values, and goals. Our actions can at times be fairly divergent from our dominant values. My own conflict, no ego vs recognition. Values can change over time. Embed values in how you do things. If key values aren’t aligned, collaboration won’t be fruitful
Keep learning and enhancing your own toolkit. Practice, practice, practice. Helped me understand and appreciate challenging collaborations more.Once you start thinking about values and frames, they are everywhere. - gut