This presentation highlights various media in use today for online collaboration and discusses a hybrid approach, which uses two freely available sites with the goal of supporting the individual within the collaborative process of creating content.
Birchip Cropping Group Wildlife Ponds Stakeholders Web 2 WorkshopYum Studio
- Characteristics of Web 2.0 include user profiles, connections between users, ability to post varied content and tag it, and embedding of rich media types.
- Advantages include ability to post different media from mobile or computer, link media to locations, and enable social networking around common issues by tagging content.
- Media that can be posted and tagged to locations includes text, photos, audio, and video.
This document provides an overview of social networking basics. It defines popular social networking tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube. It also defines common terms like tagging, widgets, and RSS feeds. The benefits of social networking are organizing information, informing others, interacting, and collaborating. Potential dangers include privacy/security issues and technology overload. Effective social networking involves outlining objectives, identifying audiences, integrating with other tools, adopting best practices, and measuring results over time. Guidelines address content, promotion, maintenance, and security best practices.
This document provides an overview of blogs, including:
1. It defines a blog as a reverse-chronological collection of diary-like entries that can function as a personal publication tool or form of journalism.
2. It describes the history of blogs, from personal homepages to the modern blog, which is database-driven and focuses on freshness and links rather than static pages requiring HTML knowledge.
3. It discusses blog software, hosting options, customizing software to one's goals, and best practices for adding content, images, videos, and attributions.
This presentation discusses a best practice approach to content development, with a focus on text as content, using progressive content development techniques.
Três garotinhos construíram um prédio e foram ameaçados por um ladrão tentando roubar sua herança. Eles escaparam correndo para outro prédio e chamaram a polícia. No dia seguinte, o ladrão tentou entrar novamente, mas a porta não abriu. Ele tentou enganá-los com um convite, mas eles não aceitaram. Quando tentou entrar disfarçado, levou um balde de água fervendo e foi preso. Depois de 20 anos, as crianças formaram uma banda de sucesso
Este documento contiene once afirmaciones positivas sobre la autoestima y el valor de cada persona, así como consejos para recordar los cumplidos y olvidar los comentarios ofensivos. También alienta a los lectores a compartir el mensaje con amigos para demostrar su aprecio.
O sol começou a tossir e se sentir doente, preocupando a Terra. A Terra perguntou o que havia acontecido com o Sol, que explicou que estava cada dia pior com uma doença. A Terra correu para pegar um xarope, mas o Sol disse que xarope não curaria sua doença. A Terra perguntou então o que poderia curá-lo, e o Sol respondeu que um chá de ervas o ajudaria.
Birchip Cropping Group Wildlife Ponds Stakeholders Web 2 WorkshopYum Studio
- Characteristics of Web 2.0 include user profiles, connections between users, ability to post varied content and tag it, and embedding of rich media types.
- Advantages include ability to post different media from mobile or computer, link media to locations, and enable social networking around common issues by tagging content.
- Media that can be posted and tagged to locations includes text, photos, audio, and video.
This document provides an overview of social networking basics. It defines popular social networking tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube. It also defines common terms like tagging, widgets, and RSS feeds. The benefits of social networking are organizing information, informing others, interacting, and collaborating. Potential dangers include privacy/security issues and technology overload. Effective social networking involves outlining objectives, identifying audiences, integrating with other tools, adopting best practices, and measuring results over time. Guidelines address content, promotion, maintenance, and security best practices.
This document provides an overview of blogs, including:
1. It defines a blog as a reverse-chronological collection of diary-like entries that can function as a personal publication tool or form of journalism.
2. It describes the history of blogs, from personal homepages to the modern blog, which is database-driven and focuses on freshness and links rather than static pages requiring HTML knowledge.
3. It discusses blog software, hosting options, customizing software to one's goals, and best practices for adding content, images, videos, and attributions.
This presentation discusses a best practice approach to content development, with a focus on text as content, using progressive content development techniques.
Três garotinhos construíram um prédio e foram ameaçados por um ladrão tentando roubar sua herança. Eles escaparam correndo para outro prédio e chamaram a polícia. No dia seguinte, o ladrão tentou entrar novamente, mas a porta não abriu. Ele tentou enganá-los com um convite, mas eles não aceitaram. Quando tentou entrar disfarçado, levou um balde de água fervendo e foi preso. Depois de 20 anos, as crianças formaram uma banda de sucesso
Este documento contiene once afirmaciones positivas sobre la autoestima y el valor de cada persona, así como consejos para recordar los cumplidos y olvidar los comentarios ofensivos. También alienta a los lectores a compartir el mensaje con amigos para demostrar su aprecio.
O sol começou a tossir e se sentir doente, preocupando a Terra. A Terra perguntou o que havia acontecido com o Sol, que explicou que estava cada dia pior com uma doença. A Terra correu para pegar um xarope, mas o Sol disse que xarope não curaria sua doença. A Terra perguntou então o que poderia curá-lo, e o Sol respondeu que um chá de ervas o ajudaria.
A história conta a amizade entre uma vaca chamada Flor e uma galinha chamada Merilú que gostavam de passear juntas pela fazenda. Um dia, após passearem próximo ao lago e almoçarem, cada uma limpou seu território. No dia seguinte, Flor convidou Merilú para outro passeio e quando voltaram encontraram suas famílias na casa da vaca, que felizmente estava limpa.
Will we stop packing a water bottle and collect air on-the-go? Will personal straws be the next big thing to ensure we get access to drinking water? Will ancient desalination techniques be our saving grace and enable us to engineer the future of water? Or will the ocean start cleaning itself?
We come across dozens of design breakthroughs and technological innovations daily--so many that it's easy to miss important trends emerging in the chaos all around us and not connect the dots to see the BIG picture.
Here at The Institute for Customer Experience (ICE), we understand the business and design value of capturing the right trend insights at the right moment. We observe and analyse trends in design, technology, and business, and keep our fingers on the pulse of the global zeitgeist. In this series of trendbriefs, we bring you alerts on what's trending in our world and their possible impact on our future.
Subscription to ICE Breakers - http://eepurl.com/S1ZFL
How will food and everything related to food will look like in future? What role will technology and innovation play in making people more conscious about what they eat?
What will be the food ecosystem of the future?
The current generation is getting health conscious and the same has been started reflecting in all the new age innovations.
In this report by the Institute of Customer Experience (ICE), we explore how the ecosystem around food will evolve and what are the key signals around this ecosystem.
Vehicles of the future will be equipped with advanced sensors that monitor drivers for health issues like sleepiness or heart attacks. Intelligent vehicles will understand driver behavior and preferences through vast amounts of data to make smarter decisions. Fully automated vehicles will allow people to input destinations and drive themselves without human control. Vehicles will communicate with each other about traffic, weather and road conditions for safer travel. Hyperloop technology could enable near-supersonic transportation through electromagnetic pulses and pressurized tubes. Solar power roads and more electric vehicles will help reduce energy usage and pollution.
Is our current materialistic lifestyle sustainable for our planet? How long can we continue to do things that make us feel good, but that are harmful and not sustainable for our environment? We need to start seeing our interests and nature’s interest as one and the same.
At, HFI’s Institute of Customer Experience (ICE) we believe that there is hope to turn things around from leading a materialistic lifestyle that is indifferent to the planet to leading a sustainable lifestyle; and we have that hope in people. So we went out searching for people from around the world who do live a sustainable lifestyle, and it shows in their work and in their personal lives each day. They are ordinary people, but with a refreshing new mindset, which makes them extraordinary. They are cleaning up our planet, making it a better place to live in, and empathizing with nature all along the way. They mobilize others into action and have drawn many to their work.
We at ICE believe that these people are the “Trendsetters for Sustainable Lifestyles”. Through the eight photobooks that follow we want to showcase their work to the world for the simple and elegant ways in which they have made a difference to the planet as individuals. They are doing their bit and as a result have positively affected communities and the environment around them. We hope they inspire our readers the way that they have inspired us. If we can learn from sustainability being their state of mind and from their work, we can make changes in our lives and fields of work to start living in a manner that will keep Earth a beautiful and habitable place for us for a very long time to come.
As part of Institute of Customer Experience, we are constantly on the look out for opportunities that give us an insight into the future of things. We wanted to explore the concept of “beginner’s mind” which is said to be an attitude of openness, eagerness and lack of preconceptions and realized that it was the mind of a child that we wanted a peek into.
We ideated and devised a unique way of getting children to give us their insights about what they think will happen in the future. The result was a board game called “The Trip to the Future” which we used to conduct “playshops”. This method got us very exciting responses. We would love to take you through the journey.
The diversity of South Africa is on one hand a treasure that should be preserved and people still do recognize its importance and carry forward their cultural values. On the other hand, the very same diversity is a challenge for policy makers, marketers, advertisers, government and other institutions that want to reach out to greater masses and those who look for scalability.
However, the “mobile first” generation is the answer. The mobile revolution has introduced the people in South Africa to the power of social media, enabled them to open and operate bank accounts, helped them level their healthcare needs and now it is being used in many more avenues with greater possibilities.
This report aggregates the current trends to showcase the possibilities. Further on, it challenges the designers and innovators by planting the Brainstorming Seeds that will grow on to become possibilities of tomorrow—to build a more prosperous and vibrant Rainbow Nation!
Wellness, in today’s context, is much more than diagnosing and curing poor health or diseases. It is a multidimensional and holistic state of being that is conscious, self-directed, and constantly evolving. Trying to make sense of wellness in a world of rising healthcare costs, shortage of wellness professionals, and technological advances in everything from computing to genetics, gives rise to several pertinent questions.
-- Will there still be any universally recognized concept of wellness? Or will it be hyper personalized to each individual's environments, genetics, and experiences?
-- What will wellness look and feel like in the future? What will be the new indicators of wellness?
-- As people experience enhanced wellness, will they become more self-aware and adopt additional experiences that will promote wellness?
-- Will we be more in control of our well-being? Or will we stop caring in a world where every aspect of our person is closely and constantly monitored and serviced?
-- As roles in the wellness ecosystem shift, what are the new well-being authorities and environments that will emerge?
-- Will big data around wellness help create better early warning systems about potential pandemics? Or will there be a drive to protect and hide our personal wellness and risk profiles online?
-- Will we ever be 'unwell', given all the new technologies to enhance (as well as prevent) wellness that will be in place?
-- Will we prefer being looked after and treated by robotic care givers/surgeons?
We attempt to answer these questions through 10 current trends we have identified, which will impact the course of wellness in the future.
Download the Wellness in 2050 Infographic - http://www.slideshare.net/UXTrendspotting/wellness-in-2050
The potential unemployment owing to automation and improvements in ICTs is likely to be more drastic than earlier rounds of automation. Will people be redundant at the workplace? Is this likely to lead to unemployment and strife? Or can we use this opportunity to explore more art, travel, have more fun, in short be more human?
Waste management is an important part of any sustainable future. In this report we present our views on Sustainable Futures for India from a waste management perspective.
-- We research and present our findings on why waste management is becoming increasingly important for India.
-- Who are the stakeholders involved in waste management? What happens to our waste - lifecycle of our waste.
-- We explore global trends in waste management and present innovative uses of waste from around the world.
-- Finally, we come down to the biggest challenges that India faces in waste management.
-- We identify two key pressing issues and propose innovative solutions for the same.
Love is a very complex emotion to decode. Or is it?
Machines and their relationship with humans have been explored in great detail. However the impact of machines on the future of love and the connection between technology and emotions seem more pertinent now than before.
Taking off our from our ICE breaker on Child's Play of the Future, here we present five futuristic scenarios of a highly intelligent and self-adapting toy and its interactions with a child.
Addictions are evolving with technology and will continue to change in the future. Some potential new forms of addiction mentioned include social media and loneliness avoidance, immersive virtual reality experiences that allow people to choose alternate realities, and "smart drugs" that enhance cognitive abilities. These developments could lead people to spend more time in virtual worlds than in reality. User experience designers will need to study addiction science to avoid exacerbating compulsions and ensure people's well-being is supported as technology continues advancing. Security, exploration, treatment, and balancing virtual and real-world experiences will be important design challenges.
Lifelogging is the practice of tracking personal data generated by our own behavioral activities in continuous digital streams. As it is slowly becoming mainstream, it raises a lot of intriguing questions and thoughts.
Lifelogging and self-tracking are altering the Futures of:
Memory,
Remembering,
Forgetting,
Storytelling,
Privacy,
Law enforcement,
Governance,
Bodies,
and our very Humanness.
This report explores these questions, thoughts and futures.
World population is growing continuously with more people living on the Earth than ever before. In 2007, humanity’s total ecological footprint was estimated at 1.5 planet Earths. Resources are becoming increasingly valuable as the Earth is the only source till date and others planets are still to become a viable source of these resources.
Projections estimate that we will need the equivalent of two planets by 2030 to meet our annual demands. The only way, we can reduce our footprint is by producing more with less, and consuming better, wiser and less - the way forward is better and 'frugal' choices!
In this report, we present the trends that encourage better choices; trends in Frugal Innovations, 'Jugaad' and Do-It-Yourself are explored to see how and where we can make our better choices for the future.
We conclude our report with 3 thought provoking future scenarios.
The document discusses how to make UX (user experience) a strategic priority for a company rather than just a deliverable. It recommends telling a story about the value of UX, embedding UX processes in each project team, and defining the value UX brings. It also suggests growing the UX team and their expertise, bringing the user's voice to guide products, and continuing to educate others about UX.
The document discusses ensuring accessibility is considered throughout the agile process. It emphasizes including accessibility specialists and success criteria in the definition of ready and done to ensure user stories and features meet accessibility standards before being marked complete. It provides examples of how accessibility input and testing can be incorporated into artifacts like user stories, wireframes, and development tasks.
The document discusses creating an inclusive and collaborative environment to empower change makers across different fields and sectors. It promotes connecting people openly at events like the Social Innovation BarCamp to address issues. It also suggests applying design skills broadly and thinking outward to other industries to help accessibility and inclusion. Resonant, critical, and augmented designs are mentioned as ways to address challenges.
Lean Usability for Startups: usability and user experience techniques to help startups create better experiences with lean budgets.
Concludes with 12 Lean Usability Principles
A história conta a amizade entre uma vaca chamada Flor e uma galinha chamada Merilú que gostavam de passear juntas pela fazenda. Um dia, após passearem próximo ao lago e almoçarem, cada uma limpou seu território. No dia seguinte, Flor convidou Merilú para outro passeio e quando voltaram encontraram suas famílias na casa da vaca, que felizmente estava limpa.
Will we stop packing a water bottle and collect air on-the-go? Will personal straws be the next big thing to ensure we get access to drinking water? Will ancient desalination techniques be our saving grace and enable us to engineer the future of water? Or will the ocean start cleaning itself?
We come across dozens of design breakthroughs and technological innovations daily--so many that it's easy to miss important trends emerging in the chaos all around us and not connect the dots to see the BIG picture.
Here at The Institute for Customer Experience (ICE), we understand the business and design value of capturing the right trend insights at the right moment. We observe and analyse trends in design, technology, and business, and keep our fingers on the pulse of the global zeitgeist. In this series of trendbriefs, we bring you alerts on what's trending in our world and their possible impact on our future.
Subscription to ICE Breakers - http://eepurl.com/S1ZFL
How will food and everything related to food will look like in future? What role will technology and innovation play in making people more conscious about what they eat?
What will be the food ecosystem of the future?
The current generation is getting health conscious and the same has been started reflecting in all the new age innovations.
In this report by the Institute of Customer Experience (ICE), we explore how the ecosystem around food will evolve and what are the key signals around this ecosystem.
Vehicles of the future will be equipped with advanced sensors that monitor drivers for health issues like sleepiness or heart attacks. Intelligent vehicles will understand driver behavior and preferences through vast amounts of data to make smarter decisions. Fully automated vehicles will allow people to input destinations and drive themselves without human control. Vehicles will communicate with each other about traffic, weather and road conditions for safer travel. Hyperloop technology could enable near-supersonic transportation through electromagnetic pulses and pressurized tubes. Solar power roads and more electric vehicles will help reduce energy usage and pollution.
Is our current materialistic lifestyle sustainable for our planet? How long can we continue to do things that make us feel good, but that are harmful and not sustainable for our environment? We need to start seeing our interests and nature’s interest as one and the same.
At, HFI’s Institute of Customer Experience (ICE) we believe that there is hope to turn things around from leading a materialistic lifestyle that is indifferent to the planet to leading a sustainable lifestyle; and we have that hope in people. So we went out searching for people from around the world who do live a sustainable lifestyle, and it shows in their work and in their personal lives each day. They are ordinary people, but with a refreshing new mindset, which makes them extraordinary. They are cleaning up our planet, making it a better place to live in, and empathizing with nature all along the way. They mobilize others into action and have drawn many to their work.
We at ICE believe that these people are the “Trendsetters for Sustainable Lifestyles”. Through the eight photobooks that follow we want to showcase their work to the world for the simple and elegant ways in which they have made a difference to the planet as individuals. They are doing their bit and as a result have positively affected communities and the environment around them. We hope they inspire our readers the way that they have inspired us. If we can learn from sustainability being their state of mind and from their work, we can make changes in our lives and fields of work to start living in a manner that will keep Earth a beautiful and habitable place for us for a very long time to come.
As part of Institute of Customer Experience, we are constantly on the look out for opportunities that give us an insight into the future of things. We wanted to explore the concept of “beginner’s mind” which is said to be an attitude of openness, eagerness and lack of preconceptions and realized that it was the mind of a child that we wanted a peek into.
We ideated and devised a unique way of getting children to give us their insights about what they think will happen in the future. The result was a board game called “The Trip to the Future” which we used to conduct “playshops”. This method got us very exciting responses. We would love to take you through the journey.
The diversity of South Africa is on one hand a treasure that should be preserved and people still do recognize its importance and carry forward their cultural values. On the other hand, the very same diversity is a challenge for policy makers, marketers, advertisers, government and other institutions that want to reach out to greater masses and those who look for scalability.
However, the “mobile first” generation is the answer. The mobile revolution has introduced the people in South Africa to the power of social media, enabled them to open and operate bank accounts, helped them level their healthcare needs and now it is being used in many more avenues with greater possibilities.
This report aggregates the current trends to showcase the possibilities. Further on, it challenges the designers and innovators by planting the Brainstorming Seeds that will grow on to become possibilities of tomorrow—to build a more prosperous and vibrant Rainbow Nation!
Wellness, in today’s context, is much more than diagnosing and curing poor health or diseases. It is a multidimensional and holistic state of being that is conscious, self-directed, and constantly evolving. Trying to make sense of wellness in a world of rising healthcare costs, shortage of wellness professionals, and technological advances in everything from computing to genetics, gives rise to several pertinent questions.
-- Will there still be any universally recognized concept of wellness? Or will it be hyper personalized to each individual's environments, genetics, and experiences?
-- What will wellness look and feel like in the future? What will be the new indicators of wellness?
-- As people experience enhanced wellness, will they become more self-aware and adopt additional experiences that will promote wellness?
-- Will we be more in control of our well-being? Or will we stop caring in a world where every aspect of our person is closely and constantly monitored and serviced?
-- As roles in the wellness ecosystem shift, what are the new well-being authorities and environments that will emerge?
-- Will big data around wellness help create better early warning systems about potential pandemics? Or will there be a drive to protect and hide our personal wellness and risk profiles online?
-- Will we ever be 'unwell', given all the new technologies to enhance (as well as prevent) wellness that will be in place?
-- Will we prefer being looked after and treated by robotic care givers/surgeons?
We attempt to answer these questions through 10 current trends we have identified, which will impact the course of wellness in the future.
Download the Wellness in 2050 Infographic - http://www.slideshare.net/UXTrendspotting/wellness-in-2050
The potential unemployment owing to automation and improvements in ICTs is likely to be more drastic than earlier rounds of automation. Will people be redundant at the workplace? Is this likely to lead to unemployment and strife? Or can we use this opportunity to explore more art, travel, have more fun, in short be more human?
Waste management is an important part of any sustainable future. In this report we present our views on Sustainable Futures for India from a waste management perspective.
-- We research and present our findings on why waste management is becoming increasingly important for India.
-- Who are the stakeholders involved in waste management? What happens to our waste - lifecycle of our waste.
-- We explore global trends in waste management and present innovative uses of waste from around the world.
-- Finally, we come down to the biggest challenges that India faces in waste management.
-- We identify two key pressing issues and propose innovative solutions for the same.
Love is a very complex emotion to decode. Or is it?
Machines and their relationship with humans have been explored in great detail. However the impact of machines on the future of love and the connection between technology and emotions seem more pertinent now than before.
Taking off our from our ICE breaker on Child's Play of the Future, here we present five futuristic scenarios of a highly intelligent and self-adapting toy and its interactions with a child.
Addictions are evolving with technology and will continue to change in the future. Some potential new forms of addiction mentioned include social media and loneliness avoidance, immersive virtual reality experiences that allow people to choose alternate realities, and "smart drugs" that enhance cognitive abilities. These developments could lead people to spend more time in virtual worlds than in reality. User experience designers will need to study addiction science to avoid exacerbating compulsions and ensure people's well-being is supported as technology continues advancing. Security, exploration, treatment, and balancing virtual and real-world experiences will be important design challenges.
Lifelogging is the practice of tracking personal data generated by our own behavioral activities in continuous digital streams. As it is slowly becoming mainstream, it raises a lot of intriguing questions and thoughts.
Lifelogging and self-tracking are altering the Futures of:
Memory,
Remembering,
Forgetting,
Storytelling,
Privacy,
Law enforcement,
Governance,
Bodies,
and our very Humanness.
This report explores these questions, thoughts and futures.
World population is growing continuously with more people living on the Earth than ever before. In 2007, humanity’s total ecological footprint was estimated at 1.5 planet Earths. Resources are becoming increasingly valuable as the Earth is the only source till date and others planets are still to become a viable source of these resources.
Projections estimate that we will need the equivalent of two planets by 2030 to meet our annual demands. The only way, we can reduce our footprint is by producing more with less, and consuming better, wiser and less - the way forward is better and 'frugal' choices!
In this report, we present the trends that encourage better choices; trends in Frugal Innovations, 'Jugaad' and Do-It-Yourself are explored to see how and where we can make our better choices for the future.
We conclude our report with 3 thought provoking future scenarios.
The document discusses how to make UX (user experience) a strategic priority for a company rather than just a deliverable. It recommends telling a story about the value of UX, embedding UX processes in each project team, and defining the value UX brings. It also suggests growing the UX team and their expertise, bringing the user's voice to guide products, and continuing to educate others about UX.
The document discusses ensuring accessibility is considered throughout the agile process. It emphasizes including accessibility specialists and success criteria in the definition of ready and done to ensure user stories and features meet accessibility standards before being marked complete. It provides examples of how accessibility input and testing can be incorporated into artifacts like user stories, wireframes, and development tasks.
The document discusses creating an inclusive and collaborative environment to empower change makers across different fields and sectors. It promotes connecting people openly at events like the Social Innovation BarCamp to address issues. It also suggests applying design skills broadly and thinking outward to other industries to help accessibility and inclusion. Resonant, critical, and augmented designs are mentioned as ways to address challenges.
Lean Usability for Startups: usability and user experience techniques to help startups create better experiences with lean budgets.
Concludes with 12 Lean Usability Principles
This document discusses deafness and the Deaf community. It notes that around 9 million people in the UK are deaf or hard of hearing, representing about 1 in 7 people, and there are approximately 50,000 British Sign Language users. The Deaf community is considered a linguistic and cultural minority similar to an ethnic group. The document then profiles two individuals, Petra and Paul, who have different relationships with deafness and the Deaf community. It also briefly discusses sign languages around the world and the history of technology used by deaf individuals to communicate. Finally, it outlines some popular social media sites for the Deaf community.
Web Usability is far more complex than User Testing and Interaction Design alone. And while interface design is an important consideration, there’s more to a usable site than what’s on the surface.
We all know the importance of accessibility and web standards, so let’s take that knowledge one step further and into the realm of usability. In this slide show Lisa Herrod will redefine the common definition of usability by introducing a greater focus on accessibility and web standards. By taking a more holistic approach you will soon see why usability is more than skin deep.
The document discusses the evolution of usability in multidisciplinary teams for web development. It notes that as the web has become more complex, with considerations for interoperability, compatibility, accessibility, functionality and standards, a multidisciplinary approach is needed where usability is a priority at every stage for all roles. It also discusses how the practice of usability has matured alongside developments in web standards and more people now identify with usability roles.
This presentation was made at Web Essentials 05. It provides a general overview of user testing and then follows on to show how Eye Tracking can be used in conjunction with traditional Usability techniques, providing more detailed results. A number of case studies are included to support the discussion.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
This talk will cover ScyllaDB Architecture from the cluster-level view and zoom in on data distribution and internal node architecture. In the process, we will learn the secret sauce used to get ScyllaDB's high availability and superior performance. We will also touch on the upcoming changes to ScyllaDB architecture, moving to strongly consistent metadata and tablets.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...Fwdays
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
* Discover how these key extensions can empower both developers and DBAs during the migration process.
* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
Mydbops Managed Services specializes in taking the pain out of database management while optimizing performance. Since 2015, we have been providing top-notch support and assistance for the top three open-source databases: MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
Our team offers a wide range of services, including assistance, support, consulting, 24/7 operations, and expertise in all relevant technologies. We help organizations improve their database's performance, scalability, efficiency, and availability.
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How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.