Tatsuo Nakajima presents research on designing ambient persuasive expressions to motivate desirable lifestyles. The research aims to change behaviors through subtle feedback displayed on ambient displays, like aquariums or pictures, based on passive observation of behaviors through smart objects. Case studies include a virtual aquarium that provides positive feedback like dancing fish when toothbrushing well, and negative feedback like a dirty aquarium for poor brushing. A second case uses a Mona Lisa bookshelf that remains beautiful and whole for cleaning public spaces and deteriorates without such actions. User studies found these ambient displays successfully motivated sustained behaviors.
A concept is a set of objects, symbols, or events grouped together based on shared characteristics that can be referenced by a name or symbol. Concepts can be concrete, known through physical characteristics and senses, or abstract, defined by attributes and understood through definitions. There are two main strategies for teaching concepts - inquiry, which presents examples and non-examples for students to discover the concept, and expository, which presents the concept and attributes before examples and discussion. Effective teaching strategies for concepts include analogies, mnemonics, and imagery.
This document provides a recipe for a peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich, including a list of ingredients and instructions for making it. It also shares the results of a survey that found strawberry jam to be the most popular spread to have with peanut butter. Some occasions when peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are commonly eaten are listed as well, such as for school lunches, birthday parties, and picnics. The recipe encourages enjoying the sandwich and marks the end of the document.
This document provides a recipe for a peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich, including a list of ingredients and instructions for making it. It also shares the results of a survey that found strawberry jam to be the most popular spread to have with peanut butter. Some occasions when peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are commonly eaten are listed as well, such as for school lunches, birthday parties, and picnics. The recipe encourages enjoying the sandwich and marks the end of the document.
This document provides information about Andy and Angie Wood, a husband and wife team who operate a wedding and portrait photography studio in Littleton, Colorado. They both attended Colorado State University, with Andy studying computer information systems and Angie studying PR marketing. The document outlines their responsibilities in the business, with Angie focusing more on customer service, marketing, and album design while Andy handles more of the technical aspects like SEO, advertising, and equipment. It also discusses strategies for effective teamwork and time management as a married professional couple.
Jorge L. Zapico is a PhD student researching climate persuasive services at KTH Centre for Sustainable Communications. His research focuses on ICT applications that use persuasive principles to change attitudes and behaviors regarding climate change in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Some key technologies being explored are mobile phones, pervasive sensors, and social media. His work looks at opportunities to use these technologies and persuasive principles like self-monitoring, social comparison, and praise to track carbon footprints and encourage low-carbon behaviors through social media and making green options easy and fun. There is potential to build on existing mobile applications and improve their effectiveness for persuading sustainable lifestyles.
A concept is a set of objects, symbols, or events grouped together based on shared characteristics that can be referenced by a name or symbol. Concepts can be concrete, known through physical characteristics and senses, or abstract, defined by attributes and understood through definitions. There are two main strategies for teaching concepts - inquiry, which presents examples and non-examples for students to discover the concept, and expository, which presents the concept and attributes before examples and discussion. Effective teaching strategies for concepts include analogies, mnemonics, and imagery.
This document provides a recipe for a peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich, including a list of ingredients and instructions for making it. It also shares the results of a survey that found strawberry jam to be the most popular spread to have with peanut butter. Some occasions when peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are commonly eaten are listed as well, such as for school lunches, birthday parties, and picnics. The recipe encourages enjoying the sandwich and marks the end of the document.
This document provides a recipe for a peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich, including a list of ingredients and instructions for making it. It also shares the results of a survey that found strawberry jam to be the most popular spread to have with peanut butter. Some occasions when peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are commonly eaten are listed as well, such as for school lunches, birthday parties, and picnics. The recipe encourages enjoying the sandwich and marks the end of the document.
This document provides information about Andy and Angie Wood, a husband and wife team who operate a wedding and portrait photography studio in Littleton, Colorado. They both attended Colorado State University, with Andy studying computer information systems and Angie studying PR marketing. The document outlines their responsibilities in the business, with Angie focusing more on customer service, marketing, and album design while Andy handles more of the technical aspects like SEO, advertising, and equipment. It also discusses strategies for effective teamwork and time management as a married professional couple.
Jorge L. Zapico is a PhD student researching climate persuasive services at KTH Centre for Sustainable Communications. His research focuses on ICT applications that use persuasive principles to change attitudes and behaviors regarding climate change in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Some key technologies being explored are mobile phones, pervasive sensors, and social media. His work looks at opportunities to use these technologies and persuasive principles like self-monitoring, social comparison, and praise to track carbon footprints and encourage low-carbon behaviors through social media and making green options easy and fun. There is potential to build on existing mobile applications and improve their effectiveness for persuading sustainable lifestyles.
Literacy is described as the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently, and think critically about written and visual communication symbols in a culture. Literacy involves understanding language skills like phonics, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, and comprehending text. A literate person can approach material with critical analysis, write accurately, and use information to make informed decisions. While literacy traditionally referred to written language, its definition is expanding to include digital and multimedia literacy. World literacy rates vary between societies based on need and demand.
The document discusses using program analysis techniques to optimize truck routes for cooperative logistics in order to reduce carbon emissions. It proposes treating truck routes as programs that can be specified using a language based on process calculus. This allows applying program analysis, verification, and optimization methods to select efficient routes and trucks. It describes using this approach in cooperation with companies to optimize routes for food transportation, bank cash transport, and other logistics operations.
Portland, OR area Real Estate Summary Sept 2013Bill McKee
Portland, OR area Real estate summary for the month of Sept, 2013. Inventory, Sales, Prices, Trends, Days on Market. Includes Portland, Clackamas County, Multnomah County and Washington County.
Rules For Radicals Slide Summary For Afp FinalBill McKee
This document outlines Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals to use conservative tactics to fight against the progressive establishment. It summarizes his 13 rules which include tactics like targeting individuals, maintaining pressure, personal attacks, ridicule, polarization, and confronting opponents outside their comfort zone. The overall message is that conservative groups should adopt Alinsky's amoral and confrontational organizing principles and tactics to build power and defeat their left-wing opponents.
Literacy is described as the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently, and think critically about written and visual communication symbols in a culture. Literacy involves understanding language skills like phonics, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, and comprehending text. A literate person can approach material with critical analysis, write accurately, and use information to make informed decisions. While literacy traditionally referred to written language, its definition is expanding to include digital and multimedia literacy. World literacy rates vary between cultures and regions depending on need and demand for literacy skills.
The Lentani Platform provides a mobile and web-based solution for fast ad-hoc data collection in multiple languages. It uses sophisticated decision trees and integrates with web services and flat files. The platform can be used for medical device complaint collection, clinical study data collection, physician referrals, patient check-ins, and symptom collection in healthcare. Short demo examples are provided for chest discomfort and headache diagnosis clinics as well as a medical device data collection demo.
The document outlines a vision for the future generations in Southwest Louisiana to have a superb quality of life. The mission is to work together to rebuild, reshape and seize opportunities to make SWLA the best place to live, work and raise a family. Key goals include improving education, economic development, workforce development, and protecting the environment and culture. The document calls out needs in the region around poverty, health care access, and outmigration. It argues there is now an opportunity to rebuild and reshape the area given public support, hurricane recovery funds, and a $90 million bond issue that would fund various capital projects.
'Living Laboratories': Rethinking Ecological Designs and Experimentation in H...Ed Chi
HCI have long moved beyond the evaluation setting of a single user sitting in front of a single desktop computer, yet many of our fundamentally held viewpoints about evaluation continues to be ruled by outdated biases derived from this legacy. We need to engage with real users in 'Living Laboratories', in which researchers either adopt or create functioning systems that are used in real settings. These new experimental platforms will greatly enable researchers to conduct evaluations that span many users, places, time, location, and social factors in ways that are unimaginable before.
This document introduces the yGen club, an online community and mentoring program for young professionals. The yGen club provides resources like e-books, webinars and podcasts to help members build their careers. Members can network with other ambitious Gen Y professionals, gain career advice from mentors, and learn secrets to personal and professional success. Interested young professionals are encouraged to apply for a yGen club membership by emailing the founder.
Social Media Very Simple Overview What Is It How Did It Start What Does It DoKristin McCullough
This document provides an overview of social media:
- It began as online communities for sharing content and building relationships, allowing two-way communication rather than traditional one-way internet models.
- Popular social media sites include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and include features like profiles, connections with friends/colleagues, sharing photos, videos, messages.
- Social media encompasses blogs, microblogs, social networking, photo sharing, video sharing, and collaborative tools like wikis for creating and sharing all forms of multimedia content.
Creating a Winning Life Sciences Innovation Strategy in an Era of ScarcitySteve Brown
This document discusses creating a winning life sciences innovation strategy in an era of scarcity. It outlines three keys to innovation: 1) Identifying great problems, 2) Seeking new connections, and 3) Tapping into passion. The document tells the story of Health Hero Network, an innovative company Steve Brown founded that recognized a healthcare problem and created a technology platform to address it. After filing patents, raising capital, proving their idea worked with customers, and showing promise with the government, the company was acquired by a large company. The document argues this is a new era that requires respecting nature and limited resources, with opportunities in life sciences, information technology, and addressing problems like emerging diseases, chronic illness, sustainability, and more
This document provides an overview of Meedan, a case study on Arabic-English media sharing on the internet. It discusses topics like social media, language barriers, machine translation, social translation, and creating an inclusive global information society by sharing information across languages. It presents examples of conversations translated between Arabic and English to demonstrate machine and social translation capabilities.
Authentic Advocacy, Cause Marketing, Digital, Social Media, Swarms, Case StudiesMediaSauce
This is the presentation that was delivered by MediaSauce on February 19th at the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library in the Clowes Auditorium. It covers Cause Marketing as a whole and the integration of digital and social media with it. The focus of this presentation is demonstrating practices and case studies of how businesses and non-profits worked together to change the world. The presentation also showcases how both can increase awareness about their products as well as cause.
Workforcecamp: An Introduction to Policy, Strategy, ImplementationKristin Wolff
CSW presentation to inaugural WorkforceCamp 09, April 27-28, 2009, San Diego, CA. Overview, Policy, Theory of Change, Common Interventions, Simulation.
This document discusses service design and provides some context and examples. It begins with an introduction to service design, defining it as planning and organizing various components of a service to improve quality and the customer experience. It then discusses different approaches to service design, including traditional marketing-focused design and more sustainability-focused design. Various service design methodologies and tools are also listed, such as interviews, scenarios, and blueprints. Finally, some examples of alternative housing services are provided.
The document discusses the rise of collective production and participation on the Internet. It covers topics like:
- Nicholas Carr's concept of "The Cult of the Amateur" and critiques of overly optimistic views of participation.
- New forms of collaboration enabled by technologies like blogs, Wikipedia, crowdsourcing, and how they draw on concepts of collective intelligence and the "wisdom of crowds."
- Questions around whether these new models democratize knowledge or if we should be skeptical of claims about their benefits given issues like lack of quality control and corporate data collection.
The document discusses Generating Integrity-Preserving Associations (GIPA), which is a set of parameterized implementation-level pattern classes that can generate methods and variables in domain model classes. The patterns describe types of associations and their composing roles, with a current focus on 1-to-n relationships. The goal of GIPA is to preserve integrity in domain models through homeostatic or self-regulating approaches. The document provides an overview of GIPA and discusses issues like ensuring integrity across associated objects, different association patterns, specifying associations, and generating code based on patterns and specifications.
Social Computing Tools and Social TechnographyKiran Budhrani
The document discusses social computing tools and concepts. It defines social computing as creating or recreating social conventions and context through software and technology. It also describes several types of social computing tools like blogs, wikis, social networks, RSS feeds, social bookmarking, and VOIP. Additionally, it discusses Forrester Research's social technographics ladder which classifies people based on how they use social technologies from creators to spectators to inactives.
Transforming Contexts: UC DAAP talk, May 8, 2009Peter Jones
Design Research - Techniques for Transforming the Context.
While the processes and perspectives collectively referred to as “design thinking” have evolved progressively in the last 10 years, research methodology has not demonstrably changed in the same period. Design research has continued to add new methods to its roster of adopted tools, but do methods and tools collectively contribute to a new whole greater than the sum of the methods?
We can observe a movement toward design contexts for organizational and social setting, which have been framed as Design 3.0 and now Design 4.0, by NextD. One way to understand the difference in design applications is by reconsidering the way we understand and make sense of design opportunities in this perspective. What are the appropriate research methodologies that account for observations about the targets of Design 3.0? These might include the larger system within which a service is conceived, the organizational context, social systems with multiple stakeholders, large-scale information ecologies with multiple emergent participants. We continue to study pieces of the problem, with user research, ethnography, participatory design research, smart sampling, trend analysis. But why have we not adopted methods from other disciplines that also contribute within the systems we intend to transform? Peter will present models and perspectives relating research methods and sensemaking approaches that bring the power of contextual understanding and collaborative problem solving to these organizational and social frames of design.
This document discusses trends in the use of Web 2.0 tools in higher education. A survey found that most universities are using or plan to use these tools to engage students and prospective students. Common tools used include blogs, YouTube, Facebook and Flickr. Challenges to use include lack of staff resources and IT resistance. Adoption of social media by universities has grown significantly in recent years and outpaces corporate adoption.
Literacy is described as the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently, and think critically about written and visual communication symbols in a culture. Literacy involves understanding language skills like phonics, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, and comprehending text. A literate person can approach material with critical analysis, write accurately, and use information to make informed decisions. While literacy traditionally referred to written language, its definition is expanding to include digital and multimedia literacy. World literacy rates vary between societies based on need and demand.
The document discusses using program analysis techniques to optimize truck routes for cooperative logistics in order to reduce carbon emissions. It proposes treating truck routes as programs that can be specified using a language based on process calculus. This allows applying program analysis, verification, and optimization methods to select efficient routes and trucks. It describes using this approach in cooperation with companies to optimize routes for food transportation, bank cash transport, and other logistics operations.
Portland, OR area Real Estate Summary Sept 2013Bill McKee
Portland, OR area Real estate summary for the month of Sept, 2013. Inventory, Sales, Prices, Trends, Days on Market. Includes Portland, Clackamas County, Multnomah County and Washington County.
Rules For Radicals Slide Summary For Afp FinalBill McKee
This document outlines Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals to use conservative tactics to fight against the progressive establishment. It summarizes his 13 rules which include tactics like targeting individuals, maintaining pressure, personal attacks, ridicule, polarization, and confronting opponents outside their comfort zone. The overall message is that conservative groups should adopt Alinsky's amoral and confrontational organizing principles and tactics to build power and defeat their left-wing opponents.
Literacy is described as the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently, and think critically about written and visual communication symbols in a culture. Literacy involves understanding language skills like phonics, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, and comprehending text. A literate person can approach material with critical analysis, write accurately, and use information to make informed decisions. While literacy traditionally referred to written language, its definition is expanding to include digital and multimedia literacy. World literacy rates vary between cultures and regions depending on need and demand for literacy skills.
The Lentani Platform provides a mobile and web-based solution for fast ad-hoc data collection in multiple languages. It uses sophisticated decision trees and integrates with web services and flat files. The platform can be used for medical device complaint collection, clinical study data collection, physician referrals, patient check-ins, and symptom collection in healthcare. Short demo examples are provided for chest discomfort and headache diagnosis clinics as well as a medical device data collection demo.
The document outlines a vision for the future generations in Southwest Louisiana to have a superb quality of life. The mission is to work together to rebuild, reshape and seize opportunities to make SWLA the best place to live, work and raise a family. Key goals include improving education, economic development, workforce development, and protecting the environment and culture. The document calls out needs in the region around poverty, health care access, and outmigration. It argues there is now an opportunity to rebuild and reshape the area given public support, hurricane recovery funds, and a $90 million bond issue that would fund various capital projects.
'Living Laboratories': Rethinking Ecological Designs and Experimentation in H...Ed Chi
HCI have long moved beyond the evaluation setting of a single user sitting in front of a single desktop computer, yet many of our fundamentally held viewpoints about evaluation continues to be ruled by outdated biases derived from this legacy. We need to engage with real users in 'Living Laboratories', in which researchers either adopt or create functioning systems that are used in real settings. These new experimental platforms will greatly enable researchers to conduct evaluations that span many users, places, time, location, and social factors in ways that are unimaginable before.
This document introduces the yGen club, an online community and mentoring program for young professionals. The yGen club provides resources like e-books, webinars and podcasts to help members build their careers. Members can network with other ambitious Gen Y professionals, gain career advice from mentors, and learn secrets to personal and professional success. Interested young professionals are encouraged to apply for a yGen club membership by emailing the founder.
Social Media Very Simple Overview What Is It How Did It Start What Does It DoKristin McCullough
This document provides an overview of social media:
- It began as online communities for sharing content and building relationships, allowing two-way communication rather than traditional one-way internet models.
- Popular social media sites include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and include features like profiles, connections with friends/colleagues, sharing photos, videos, messages.
- Social media encompasses blogs, microblogs, social networking, photo sharing, video sharing, and collaborative tools like wikis for creating and sharing all forms of multimedia content.
Creating a Winning Life Sciences Innovation Strategy in an Era of ScarcitySteve Brown
This document discusses creating a winning life sciences innovation strategy in an era of scarcity. It outlines three keys to innovation: 1) Identifying great problems, 2) Seeking new connections, and 3) Tapping into passion. The document tells the story of Health Hero Network, an innovative company Steve Brown founded that recognized a healthcare problem and created a technology platform to address it. After filing patents, raising capital, proving their idea worked with customers, and showing promise with the government, the company was acquired by a large company. The document argues this is a new era that requires respecting nature and limited resources, with opportunities in life sciences, information technology, and addressing problems like emerging diseases, chronic illness, sustainability, and more
This document provides an overview of Meedan, a case study on Arabic-English media sharing on the internet. It discusses topics like social media, language barriers, machine translation, social translation, and creating an inclusive global information society by sharing information across languages. It presents examples of conversations translated between Arabic and English to demonstrate machine and social translation capabilities.
Authentic Advocacy, Cause Marketing, Digital, Social Media, Swarms, Case StudiesMediaSauce
This is the presentation that was delivered by MediaSauce on February 19th at the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library in the Clowes Auditorium. It covers Cause Marketing as a whole and the integration of digital and social media with it. The focus of this presentation is demonstrating practices and case studies of how businesses and non-profits worked together to change the world. The presentation also showcases how both can increase awareness about their products as well as cause.
Workforcecamp: An Introduction to Policy, Strategy, ImplementationKristin Wolff
CSW presentation to inaugural WorkforceCamp 09, April 27-28, 2009, San Diego, CA. Overview, Policy, Theory of Change, Common Interventions, Simulation.
This document discusses service design and provides some context and examples. It begins with an introduction to service design, defining it as planning and organizing various components of a service to improve quality and the customer experience. It then discusses different approaches to service design, including traditional marketing-focused design and more sustainability-focused design. Various service design methodologies and tools are also listed, such as interviews, scenarios, and blueprints. Finally, some examples of alternative housing services are provided.
The document discusses the rise of collective production and participation on the Internet. It covers topics like:
- Nicholas Carr's concept of "The Cult of the Amateur" and critiques of overly optimistic views of participation.
- New forms of collaboration enabled by technologies like blogs, Wikipedia, crowdsourcing, and how they draw on concepts of collective intelligence and the "wisdom of crowds."
- Questions around whether these new models democratize knowledge or if we should be skeptical of claims about their benefits given issues like lack of quality control and corporate data collection.
The document discusses Generating Integrity-Preserving Associations (GIPA), which is a set of parameterized implementation-level pattern classes that can generate methods and variables in domain model classes. The patterns describe types of associations and their composing roles, with a current focus on 1-to-n relationships. The goal of GIPA is to preserve integrity in domain models through homeostatic or self-regulating approaches. The document provides an overview of GIPA and discusses issues like ensuring integrity across associated objects, different association patterns, specifying associations, and generating code based on patterns and specifications.
Social Computing Tools and Social TechnographyKiran Budhrani
The document discusses social computing tools and concepts. It defines social computing as creating or recreating social conventions and context through software and technology. It also describes several types of social computing tools like blogs, wikis, social networks, RSS feeds, social bookmarking, and VOIP. Additionally, it discusses Forrester Research's social technographics ladder which classifies people based on how they use social technologies from creators to spectators to inactives.
Transforming Contexts: UC DAAP talk, May 8, 2009Peter Jones
Design Research - Techniques for Transforming the Context.
While the processes and perspectives collectively referred to as “design thinking” have evolved progressively in the last 10 years, research methodology has not demonstrably changed in the same period. Design research has continued to add new methods to its roster of adopted tools, but do methods and tools collectively contribute to a new whole greater than the sum of the methods?
We can observe a movement toward design contexts for organizational and social setting, which have been framed as Design 3.0 and now Design 4.0, by NextD. One way to understand the difference in design applications is by reconsidering the way we understand and make sense of design opportunities in this perspective. What are the appropriate research methodologies that account for observations about the targets of Design 3.0? These might include the larger system within which a service is conceived, the organizational context, social systems with multiple stakeholders, large-scale information ecologies with multiple emergent participants. We continue to study pieces of the problem, with user research, ethnography, participatory design research, smart sampling, trend analysis. But why have we not adopted methods from other disciplines that also contribute within the systems we intend to transform? Peter will present models and perspectives relating research methods and sensemaking approaches that bring the power of contextual understanding and collaborative problem solving to these organizational and social frames of design.
This document discusses trends in the use of Web 2.0 tools in higher education. A survey found that most universities are using or plan to use these tools to engage students and prospective students. Common tools used include blogs, YouTube, Facebook and Flickr. Challenges to use include lack of staff resources and IT resistance. Adoption of social media by universities has grown significantly in recent years and outpaces corporate adoption.
The document discusses Web 2.0 technologies and their use for learning and development. It notes that while Web 2.0 tools are widely available, their actual use for formal learning is difficult to determine and often exaggerated. The document advocates researching how Web 2.0 is used within an organization before deciding whether and how to formalize its use, rather than making assumptions based on stereotypes about different generations.
Social Media Primer for Health Care ExecutivesSteve Brown
This presentation accompanied a talk I gave recently to a group of health care executives at an ABL Roundtable event in San Francisco. I was asked to discuss the meaning, importance and potential application of social media in health care.
This document discusses statistics related to Americans' dissatisfaction in their jobs and financial situations. It then presents the direct selling industry as a potential solution, highlighting that over 130,000 people per week join direct sales companies seeking a Plan B. The direct selling company discussed has experienced significant growth since 1993 and aims to create nutritional products and provide an opportunity for people to do extraordinary things.
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
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:
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
20 Comprehensive Checklist of Designing and Developing a WebsitePixlogix Infotech
Dive into the world of Website Designing and Developing with Pixlogix! Looking to create a stunning online presence? Look no further! Our comprehensive checklist covers everything you need to know to craft a website that stands out. From user-friendly design to seamless functionality, we've got you covered. Don't miss out on this invaluable resource! Check out our checklist now at Pixlogix and start your journey towards a captivating online presence today.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
Introducing Milvus Lite: Easy-to-Install, Easy-to-Use vector database for you...Zilliz
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20240609 QFM020 Irresponsible AI Reading List May 2024
Tatsuo Nakajima
1. Designing Ambient Persuasive Expressions
to Mo6vate Desirable Lifestyle
Tatsuo Nakajima
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Waseda University
Distributed and Ubiquitous Compu3ng Lab.
• Sen6ent Ar6facts
– Embedding intelligence in daily objects.
• AwareMirror(Pervasive 2005), FedNet(Ubicomp 2008)
• Persuasive Technologies
– How to change human behavior to change the user’s undesirable
habits ?
• Virtual Aquarium, Mona Liza Bookshelf(DIS 2008), EcoIsland
• Mobile Interac6on
– How to interact on mobile devices ?
• Vidgets(ICMI 2005), UbiPay
• Mobility‐oriented pedestrian naviga6on(Mobiquitous 2008)
• SoYware Infrastructure for Complex Embedded Systems
– How to build complex smart appliances ?
• Mul6 personali6es/Real‐6me/Parallelism/Reliability/Dynamic Quality Control)
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2. Distributed and Ubiquitous Compu3ng Lab.
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Research Mo3va3on
• Our daily lives become more complex and stressful, and we
like to use our 6me for more exi6ng ac6vi6es because our
daily lives become busier every year!!
– Commu6ng, Working, Finding something, Paper work, Many boring
mee6ng
• Some ac6vi6es do not return appropriate feedback quickly to
mo6vate to do the ac6vi6es!! It is not easy to mo6vate these
ac6vi6es.
– Health, Sustainability, Cleaning in public spaces
• Public spaces and facili6es tend
to deteriorate quickly in a process
called the tragedy of the common.
– Garrea Hardin, Science, 1968
• Our approach mo6vates to do
these daily ac6vi6es by reflec6ng
a user’s current behavior
on ambient displays.
3. Recent Lifestyle in Urban Areas
In the morning and evening of Tokyo
Ambient Lifestyle Feedback System
for BeDer Lifestyle
Daily Ac6vi6es
Aquarium, Picture, Foliage
plant
Beaer Lifestyle
4. Basic Framework
• Interac(on Management
(Passive observa(on)
– Smart daily objects
• Persuasive Expression
(Ambient Feedback)
– Aquarium, Picture,
Foliage plant
• Feedback Control(Emo(onal Engagement)
– Posi(ve reinforcement: encouraging a user’s behavior by providing a
favourable s6mulus in response to it
– Nega(ve reinforcement: encouraging a user’s behavior by removing an averse
s6mulus in response to it
– Posi(ve punishment: disencouraging a user’s behavior by providing an averse
s6mulus in response to it
– Nega(ve punishment: disencouraging a user’s behavior by removing a
favourable s6mulus in response to it
Case Study 1: Virtual Aquarium
Personal Well‐being
• Toothbrushing…
– It is important for our health lives.
• In the morning and evening
• Everyday
• Sufficient amount of 6me
– But, brushing is not usually fun
• Give up to brush a sufficient amount of 6me.
• Skipping to brush a user’s tooth
• The advantage of our approach
– The 6me for tooth brushing will be more pleasurable
– It support to con6nue to brush a user’s tooth.
6. Virtual Aquarium: User Study
• Some comments from users
– It is natural to put a virtual aquarium in a lavatory.
– The miss of sensors frustrate players. Players feel disgust at
no response even though they are doing tooth brushing well.
– When a user could not brush his teeth at home, he was
frustrated by having to neglect the system.
– Families became interested to see the status of the aquarium
and this mo6vate to con6nue to play
the game.
– For almost of users, the existence of
the aquarium becomes unconscious.
– Users feel that their tooth become
clean if the aquarium is clean up
Case Study 2: Mona Lisa Bookshelf
Well‐Organized Public Space
Public bookshelf or toilet tend
to deteriorate quickly in a process
called the tragedy of the common
Garrea Hardin, Science, 1968
Public space management:
Cleaning, Energy Saving
8. Case Study 4: EcoIsland
Social Collabora3on for Sustainability
• Sustainability is important in our current daily life.
• EcoIsland encourages users to save our environments
by less energy consuming ac6vi6es.
• Using economical and social concepts as incen6ve.
9. Basic Design Decision
• Persuasive Expression
– Metaphor: Sinking a user’s family’s island.
• Feedback Control
– Social incen6ves
• Coopera6on with a family and compe66on with other families
– Economical incen6ves
• EcoPoint: Decora6ng island with virtual goods
– Acquiring EcoPoint by desirable sustainable behavior.
– Acquiring EcoPoint by emission trading.
• Interac6on Management
– Need to Monitor Various ac6vi6es
– User repor6ng
EcoIsland: User Study
• Six Japanese families: 20 persons, age 15‐58, male 12, female 8.
– First week: only one member uses EcoIsland.
– Second week: all members use EcoIsland.
• Surveying ques6onnaire asking behavior modifica6on.
• Some User’s Comments
– Sinking island contributes to change their behavior.
– EcoPoint encourages a user to decorate his/her island.
• Does not encourage intrinsic mo6va6on.
– Emission trading is not effec6ve in a short‐term study.
– 5 out of 6 families reported more ac6ons in the second week.
– Speech bubbles are not useful because texts in the bubbles are too
small to read.
– A list used for repor6ng is useful to know which ac6vi6es are effec6ve
for reducing CO2 emission.
10. Making the Meaning of
Ambient Persuasive Expression
• Choosing a presenta6on metaphor is important.
– Does a user need to learn the meaning of metaphors ?
• The meaning should be understood easily.
– Clean aquarium and teeth
– Well‐organized Mona Lisa and bookshelf
• Incen6ves sa6sfying human needs.
– Shapes that come with pre‐aaached meanings are more capable
of evoking emo6onal engagement.
Physical incen6ves
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Psychological Incen6ves
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Social Incen6ves
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Economical Incen6ves
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• Ambient or Remarkable
– Need to be ambient, but persuasive
Feedback Control
• Balancing posi6ve and nega6ve feedback
– Boring and Helplessness
• Two levels of Feedback Control
– Short‐term feedback
• Using various incen6ves
– Long‐term feedback
• Showing short‐term and long‐term goals.
• Showing the effec6veness of behavior modifica6on
• Changing feedback strategies according to each
phases on behavior modifica6on.
– Changing the balance of posi6ve and nega6ve feedbacks.
– Developing Intrinsic and extrinsic mo6va6on.
11. Interac3on Management
• Explicit interac6on to specify a user’s ac6vi6es by her.
– High value incen6ves are necessary to let a user to no6fy which
ac6vity she is doing now.
– A user needs to concentrate to no6fy her ac6vi6es.
• Lightweight interac6on is necessary.
– It is not easy to analyze human behavior implicitly
and completely.
• How to balance between implicit and explicit interac6on ?
– We need to consider the balance between implicit and explicit
interac6on.
• How to avoid a user’s chea6ng sensors ?
– It is also important to give incen6ves not cheat sensors.
• Explaining the Important to achieve the goal and to change
undesirable habits.
Adding End‐User Configurability
• Persuasive systems will be used in different situa6ons and
cultures.
– Sensing and presenta6ons can be changed by end‐users without knowing
technical issues and long 6me learning.
• A common infrastructure is necessary to develop configurable
persuasive systems easily.
– A feeling to use the system easily is more important than actual usability.
– Document‐based configurable middleware(Ubicomp 2008).
– Social networks are also important infrastructures for suppor6ng co‐
crea6on.
• The persuasiveness will become more strong if a user has
empathy on persuasive expressions.
– Virtual Pets, Friends and families’ photos.
– A user defined persuasive expressions.
12. Other Ongoing Ac3vi3es
• Pervasive Deployment
– Using pervasive displays in public spaces to show
feedback informa6on and integra6ng with
adver6sements.
– Using the systems without learning how to use them.
• Moral/Cultural Effects
– Is it acceptable to change a user’s behavior ?
Thank you!!
Ta suo Nakajjima
tatsuo@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp