[19.2 UserZoom Spring Release Webinar] Get Card Sort Insights with ConfidenceUserZoom
1) The webinar provided overviews of the new 19.2 spring release of UserZoom which included enhancements to the card sorting feature and panelist experience.
2) A demo showed improved visualizations for card sorting results including time on task metrics and intuitive dendrograms.
3) Enhancements to the IntelliZoom panelist portal were demonstrated through a user story, including improved sign up and profile management features.
4) The release highlighted UserZoom's focus on providing faster insights through new features and an improved resource center for support.
This document provides guidance on successfully completing a final year project, including writing a project proposal, implementing the project, and writing the final report. It discusses the key components of a project proposal, including an introduction justifying the research, objectives, methodology, implementation schedule, and required resources. It also outlines the sections of the final report, such as the abstract, introduction, literature review, methodology, results and discussion, and conclusion. Presenting the project and defending it during a viva voce examination is also an important part of the process.
The document discusses challenges in selecting open source software (OSS) components for projects. It outlines constraints like limited time and budget that make component selection difficult. It then describes approaches to identifying and evaluating potential components, including formal methods like checklists and criteria, as well as more informal practices like personal experience, social networks, and prototyping. Both formal and informal approaches have benefits like finding better components efficiently, but also problems like bias, lack of documentation, and not guaranteeing the best choice. Relying only on personal networks and experience can result in adopting fewer technologies than necessary. The document advocates spending time monitoring relevant OSS communities and resources to facilitate more informed component selection decisions.
Usability testing can help bridge the gap between developers, marketers, and stakeholders. Usability testing lets the design and development teams identify problems before they are coded. The earlier issues are identified and fixed, the less expensive the fixes will be in terms of both staff time and possible impact to the schedule. Usability testing is a great way to help teams prioritize website redesign efforts. In this session, we'll talk about the main types of usability tests and why it's better to usability test before deciding on making changes to the design. By conducting tests early, your team learns what to change. You'll learn what to keep. Usability testing early makes it easier to build the requirements, define the use cases, and even create QA test scripts, because you can drive all those things right off what you saw in the research. It will likely reduce your development costs because you’ll have data to make decisions, instead of driving everything off some strong-willed individual’s opinions of what users need. Pushing your user research as early as possible in the schedule is the best way to get value from your efforts.
The document discusses fostering synergy between programs and facilities departments at UW-Whitewater. It outlines stereotypes between the two groups, differences in their cultures and perspectives, and keys to developing positive collaboration such as communication, understanding multiple viewpoints, establishing common language and agreed expectations, and creating accountability mechanisms. The document also describes UW-Whitewater's history with the two departments and a programming agreement developed to formally establish relationships and expectations between stakeholders to improve coordination.
Elizabeth Snowdon is a senior business analyst and consultant specializing in user-centered design with over 12 years of experience. Her presentation discusses prototyping and usability testing, noting that usability testing should occur throughout the product development lifecycle to identify and address usability issues. She outlines the benefits of usability testing and prototyping, such as creating more useful, efficient and satisfying products for users. The presentation provides guidance on planning, conducting and analyzing usability tests, including determining test objectives, recruiting representative users, developing test tasks and metrics to collect.
This document describes the design and development of a virtual counselor chatbot to assist students at APIIT. It outlines the problem of growing student populations and issues with traveling and counseling, and proposes a web-based chatbot as a solution. It details the key decisions made regarding the knowledgebase structure and pattern matching algorithm. The document also covers the system requirements, overall architecture, development process, testing procedures and results, as well as opportunities for enhancement.
[19.2 UserZoom Spring Release Webinar] Get Card Sort Insights with ConfidenceUserZoom
1) The webinar provided overviews of the new 19.2 spring release of UserZoom which included enhancements to the card sorting feature and panelist experience.
2) A demo showed improved visualizations for card sorting results including time on task metrics and intuitive dendrograms.
3) Enhancements to the IntelliZoom panelist portal were demonstrated through a user story, including improved sign up and profile management features.
4) The release highlighted UserZoom's focus on providing faster insights through new features and an improved resource center for support.
This document provides guidance on successfully completing a final year project, including writing a project proposal, implementing the project, and writing the final report. It discusses the key components of a project proposal, including an introduction justifying the research, objectives, methodology, implementation schedule, and required resources. It also outlines the sections of the final report, such as the abstract, introduction, literature review, methodology, results and discussion, and conclusion. Presenting the project and defending it during a viva voce examination is also an important part of the process.
The document discusses challenges in selecting open source software (OSS) components for projects. It outlines constraints like limited time and budget that make component selection difficult. It then describes approaches to identifying and evaluating potential components, including formal methods like checklists and criteria, as well as more informal practices like personal experience, social networks, and prototyping. Both formal and informal approaches have benefits like finding better components efficiently, but also problems like bias, lack of documentation, and not guaranteeing the best choice. Relying only on personal networks and experience can result in adopting fewer technologies than necessary. The document advocates spending time monitoring relevant OSS communities and resources to facilitate more informed component selection decisions.
Usability testing can help bridge the gap between developers, marketers, and stakeholders. Usability testing lets the design and development teams identify problems before they are coded. The earlier issues are identified and fixed, the less expensive the fixes will be in terms of both staff time and possible impact to the schedule. Usability testing is a great way to help teams prioritize website redesign efforts. In this session, we'll talk about the main types of usability tests and why it's better to usability test before deciding on making changes to the design. By conducting tests early, your team learns what to change. You'll learn what to keep. Usability testing early makes it easier to build the requirements, define the use cases, and even create QA test scripts, because you can drive all those things right off what you saw in the research. It will likely reduce your development costs because you’ll have data to make decisions, instead of driving everything off some strong-willed individual’s opinions of what users need. Pushing your user research as early as possible in the schedule is the best way to get value from your efforts.
The document discusses fostering synergy between programs and facilities departments at UW-Whitewater. It outlines stereotypes between the two groups, differences in their cultures and perspectives, and keys to developing positive collaboration such as communication, understanding multiple viewpoints, establishing common language and agreed expectations, and creating accountability mechanisms. The document also describes UW-Whitewater's history with the two departments and a programming agreement developed to formally establish relationships and expectations between stakeholders to improve coordination.
Elizabeth Snowdon is a senior business analyst and consultant specializing in user-centered design with over 12 years of experience. Her presentation discusses prototyping and usability testing, noting that usability testing should occur throughout the product development lifecycle to identify and address usability issues. She outlines the benefits of usability testing and prototyping, such as creating more useful, efficient and satisfying products for users. The presentation provides guidance on planning, conducting and analyzing usability tests, including determining test objectives, recruiting representative users, developing test tasks and metrics to collect.
This document describes the design and development of a virtual counselor chatbot to assist students at APIIT. It outlines the problem of growing student populations and issues with traveling and counseling, and proposes a web-based chatbot as a solution. It details the key decisions made regarding the knowledgebase structure and pattern matching algorithm. The document also covers the system requirements, overall architecture, development process, testing procedures and results, as well as opportunities for enhancement.
The document provides a heuristic evaluation of the One & Only Resorts website to improve the customer experience. It analyzes the main usability problems in learning about offerings, choosing events, and booking trips. Recommendations include using compelling resort photos, streamlining steps to choose and book, providing multilingual support, and offering flexible payment options. The evaluation identifies issues in visibility, matching real-world expectations, efficiency and errors across tasks. Competitive research on sites like Agoda and Expedia is also recommended to enhance the customer experience.
This document discusses leveraging educational technology tools for retrieval practice. It recommends using tools like flashcards, quizzes, and games to have students retrieve and recall information. Interleaving topics and spacing out practice is important. Failure during retrieval practice is also important for long-term memory and learning. The document provides an overview and keys to effective retrieval practice using technology tools.
SpotCheck is a mobile application that allows college students to check the occupancy of locations like libraries and cafeterias to save time. It provides real-time outlooks, customization, and suggestions unlike Google Maps. Initial user testing with college students found the feature for checking locations to be very important. Feedback indicated the need for this type of mobile service and the importance of considering restrictions and being open to all user comments.
The reliable and consistent performance of your business-critical applications is the key to success of your enterprise. However, performance issues within an application are often identified in live scenarios which result in considerable damage to the reputation of your brand. That is where formal web performance testing of the applications is necessary to ascertain application behaviour at peak performance and scalability levels.
AAC Assessment Part 1: Functional Communication Assessment & Access ScreeningTanna Neufeld
The first step in the AAC assessment process, assessing current functional communication skills and needs and screening access needs to identify key features for AAC tools.
The document discusses methods for evaluating paper prototypes, including inspection methods like cognitive walkthroughs and heuristic evaluations, as well as testing methods like co-discovery and Wizard of Oz testing. It emphasizes evaluating concepts like usefulness, usability, and user experience. Inspection methods involve experts inspecting the prototype, while testing methods involve real users testing the prototype. An effective evaluation protocol uses a mix of methods and focuses on the prototype's supported tasks and affordances. The overall goal is formative evaluation to identify issues preventing users from achieving their goals.
This document summarizes key aspects of usability testing based on a literature review. It defines usability testing as evaluating a product's ease of use and learnability through observing users. Usability testing identifies problems, aims to keep users central to the design process, and replaces opinions with empirical data. The document outlines methodologies, criteria for web design, interpreting data, and reporting results. It provides examples of usability testing principles, types of tests, and goals for user-centered design.
Usability testing involves testing a product on real users to evaluate how easily users can complete tasks and use the product. It is done early in the design process to identify usability issues. Pros include getting real user feedback and data, while cons are limited users and tasks can be tested. Common techniques are task completion analysis and eye tracking. The process involves planning with objectives, selecting users and tasks, conducting tests, and reporting results and recommendations.
This online course consists of 8 weekly e-tivities exploring different aspects of Web 2.0 technology. Each week participants will complete readings, hands-on activities with Web 2.0 tools, and blog reflections on their experiences. Participants will read and comment on each other's blogs. The instructor will provide a weekly blog summary. To pass the course, participants must blog at least 8 times with 100 words each over the 8 weeks. The final e-tivity allows more time and an opportunity to share findings and reflections on using Web 2.0 tools in work and education.
1) Los blogs permiten a los autores publicar artículos y opiniones de forma periódica en un sitio web.
2) Blogger es un servicio gratuito para crear blogs que requiere registro de usuario con correo electrónico y contraseña.
3) Una vez registrado, el usuario puede personalizar su blog eligiendo un nombre, diseño y publicando nuevas entradas.
Este documento es una canción que habla sobre levantar la mano para dejar atrás el pasado y disfrutar del presente. La letra expresa la idea de usar la imaginación para superar los desafíos, saltar obstáculos y tocar el cielo con la mano levantada. La canción invita a levantar la mano y tocar el cielo varias veces.
This document discusses techniques for innovation and overcoming assumptions. It presents an activity where participants list assumptions about a coffee maker to practice identifying assumptions. Key steps for ideating include defining problems clearly, establishing playful rules without criticism, documenting all ideas, and challenging oneself to think differently. Stretching mental muscles and getting physical helps overcome constraints from assumptions. Creating an environment without experts and critiques allows building on each other's ideas to develop solutions.
The document summarizes the findings of a usability study conducted on the ABLE project management tool. The study utilized several methods including contextual inquiry, personas and scenarios, competitive evaluation, heuristic evaluation, surveys, and user testing. The study identified five key usability problems: users had difficulty finding functions and information; there was little guidance to help users complete tasks; feedback and errors were inadequate; inter-feature dependencies were limited; and the layout decreased continuity and readability. Recommendations were provided to address each issue and improve the user experience of ABLE.
Provo City is launching a "I Wish This Was" campaign to get community input on new businesses for empty buildings. The campaign will place stickers on two vacant properties where people can write what types of businesses they would like to see there. City leaders and real estate professionals hope this creative engagement process will generate useful ideas from residents to help economic development in the downtown area. A kickoff event will be held on June 28th to introduce the campaign.
The document summarizes the media landscape and challenges in Indonesia. It describes how media has grown from just 1 journalist organization under the military regime to now 29 organizations in the democratic era. It also outlines how some of the largest media groups in Indonesia have diversified into various industries like banking, resources, and property. However, media workers face issues like editorial interference, low pay, and union busting. The largest media groups act more like conglomerates than traditional media companies.
NGA Global Payroll. With services in 188 countries, we are helping people aro...NGA Human Resources
This deck lays out the various benefits and components of NGA Global Payroll, a HR BPO solution for employers of multinational workforces who want to ensure global compliance, focus on their core business and leverage cloud technology to improve business outcomes. NGA Global Payroll connects cloud HR systems with payroll engines in 188 countries, through Payroll Exchange, NGA's services integration middleware platform.
32 Ways a Digital Marketing Consultant Can Help Grow Your BusinessBarry Feldman
How can a digital marketing consultant help your business? In this resource we'll count the ways. 24 additional marketing resources are bundled for free.
The document provides a heuristic evaluation of the One & Only Resorts website to improve the customer experience. It analyzes the main usability problems in learning about offerings, choosing events, and booking trips. Recommendations include using compelling resort photos, streamlining steps to choose and book, providing multilingual support, and offering flexible payment options. The evaluation identifies issues in visibility, matching real-world expectations, efficiency and errors across tasks. Competitive research on sites like Agoda and Expedia is also recommended to enhance the customer experience.
This document discusses leveraging educational technology tools for retrieval practice. It recommends using tools like flashcards, quizzes, and games to have students retrieve and recall information. Interleaving topics and spacing out practice is important. Failure during retrieval practice is also important for long-term memory and learning. The document provides an overview and keys to effective retrieval practice using technology tools.
SpotCheck is a mobile application that allows college students to check the occupancy of locations like libraries and cafeterias to save time. It provides real-time outlooks, customization, and suggestions unlike Google Maps. Initial user testing with college students found the feature for checking locations to be very important. Feedback indicated the need for this type of mobile service and the importance of considering restrictions and being open to all user comments.
The reliable and consistent performance of your business-critical applications is the key to success of your enterprise. However, performance issues within an application are often identified in live scenarios which result in considerable damage to the reputation of your brand. That is where formal web performance testing of the applications is necessary to ascertain application behaviour at peak performance and scalability levels.
AAC Assessment Part 1: Functional Communication Assessment & Access ScreeningTanna Neufeld
The first step in the AAC assessment process, assessing current functional communication skills and needs and screening access needs to identify key features for AAC tools.
The document discusses methods for evaluating paper prototypes, including inspection methods like cognitive walkthroughs and heuristic evaluations, as well as testing methods like co-discovery and Wizard of Oz testing. It emphasizes evaluating concepts like usefulness, usability, and user experience. Inspection methods involve experts inspecting the prototype, while testing methods involve real users testing the prototype. An effective evaluation protocol uses a mix of methods and focuses on the prototype's supported tasks and affordances. The overall goal is formative evaluation to identify issues preventing users from achieving their goals.
This document summarizes key aspects of usability testing based on a literature review. It defines usability testing as evaluating a product's ease of use and learnability through observing users. Usability testing identifies problems, aims to keep users central to the design process, and replaces opinions with empirical data. The document outlines methodologies, criteria for web design, interpreting data, and reporting results. It provides examples of usability testing principles, types of tests, and goals for user-centered design.
Usability testing involves testing a product on real users to evaluate how easily users can complete tasks and use the product. It is done early in the design process to identify usability issues. Pros include getting real user feedback and data, while cons are limited users and tasks can be tested. Common techniques are task completion analysis and eye tracking. The process involves planning with objectives, selecting users and tasks, conducting tests, and reporting results and recommendations.
This online course consists of 8 weekly e-tivities exploring different aspects of Web 2.0 technology. Each week participants will complete readings, hands-on activities with Web 2.0 tools, and blog reflections on their experiences. Participants will read and comment on each other's blogs. The instructor will provide a weekly blog summary. To pass the course, participants must blog at least 8 times with 100 words each over the 8 weeks. The final e-tivity allows more time and an opportunity to share findings and reflections on using Web 2.0 tools in work and education.
1) Los blogs permiten a los autores publicar artículos y opiniones de forma periódica en un sitio web.
2) Blogger es un servicio gratuito para crear blogs que requiere registro de usuario con correo electrónico y contraseña.
3) Una vez registrado, el usuario puede personalizar su blog eligiendo un nombre, diseño y publicando nuevas entradas.
Este documento es una canción que habla sobre levantar la mano para dejar atrás el pasado y disfrutar del presente. La letra expresa la idea de usar la imaginación para superar los desafíos, saltar obstáculos y tocar el cielo con la mano levantada. La canción invita a levantar la mano y tocar el cielo varias veces.
This document discusses techniques for innovation and overcoming assumptions. It presents an activity where participants list assumptions about a coffee maker to practice identifying assumptions. Key steps for ideating include defining problems clearly, establishing playful rules without criticism, documenting all ideas, and challenging oneself to think differently. Stretching mental muscles and getting physical helps overcome constraints from assumptions. Creating an environment without experts and critiques allows building on each other's ideas to develop solutions.
The document summarizes the findings of a usability study conducted on the ABLE project management tool. The study utilized several methods including contextual inquiry, personas and scenarios, competitive evaluation, heuristic evaluation, surveys, and user testing. The study identified five key usability problems: users had difficulty finding functions and information; there was little guidance to help users complete tasks; feedback and errors were inadequate; inter-feature dependencies were limited; and the layout decreased continuity and readability. Recommendations were provided to address each issue and improve the user experience of ABLE.
Provo City is launching a "I Wish This Was" campaign to get community input on new businesses for empty buildings. The campaign will place stickers on two vacant properties where people can write what types of businesses they would like to see there. City leaders and real estate professionals hope this creative engagement process will generate useful ideas from residents to help economic development in the downtown area. A kickoff event will be held on June 28th to introduce the campaign.
The document summarizes the media landscape and challenges in Indonesia. It describes how media has grown from just 1 journalist organization under the military regime to now 29 organizations in the democratic era. It also outlines how some of the largest media groups in Indonesia have diversified into various industries like banking, resources, and property. However, media workers face issues like editorial interference, low pay, and union busting. The largest media groups act more like conglomerates than traditional media companies.
NGA Global Payroll. With services in 188 countries, we are helping people aro...NGA Human Resources
This deck lays out the various benefits and components of NGA Global Payroll, a HR BPO solution for employers of multinational workforces who want to ensure global compliance, focus on their core business and leverage cloud technology to improve business outcomes. NGA Global Payroll connects cloud HR systems with payroll engines in 188 countries, through Payroll Exchange, NGA's services integration middleware platform.
32 Ways a Digital Marketing Consultant Can Help Grow Your BusinessBarry Feldman
How can a digital marketing consultant help your business? In this resource we'll count the ways. 24 additional marketing resources are bundled for free.
The document provides an overview and guidelines for a Coast Guard team conducting a site visit and assessment of a Jacksonville unit using the Coast Guard Performance Excellence Criteria (CPEC). It outlines the objectives of encouraging performance excellence, educating leaders, identifying best practices, and recognizing high-performing units. It then details the roles and responsibilities of team members, the assessment process and timeline, guidelines for conducting interviews and reviewing documents and data, how to document findings and identify strengths and opportunities for improvement, and how to develop the final report and brief the unit.
How to plan a website and intranet -- from assessment and audit, to strategic and functional planning (including information architecture), content management, design, search engine optimization (SEO), and ROI and business case development.
Usability Primer - for Alberta Municipal Webmasters Working GroupNormanMendoza
Presentation provided on December 1, 2006. References:
“A Practical Guide to Usability Testing” by Joseph S. Dumas and Janice C. Redish
The Elements of User Experience, diagram by Jesse James Garrett
Usability testing involves having users complete typical tasks on a website or prototype to evaluate its usability. Many organizations do not conduct usability testing due to perceived costs and time requirements. However, usability testing can verify that content meets users' needs, test information architecture, and help focus product development. The document provides examples of usability testing methods, tools, and how to design an effective test using an association's website as a sample.
Experience Research Best Practices - UX Meet Up Boston 2013 - Dan BerlinMad*Pow
The document provides guidance on best practices for experience research. It discusses understanding research goals, choosing appropriate research methods, gathering qualitative data through tasks, moderator guides, note taking, and organizing findings. The key points are: understand business goals and user needs to define research goals; use a methods chart to evaluate options based on goals, timeline, budget and other constraints; and properly document studies through moderator guides, notes grids, and findings sheets to facilitate analysis.
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 document discusses methods for evaluating eLearning programs, including formative evaluation during development and summative evaluation after completion. It describes Kirkpatrick's model of evaluation, including levels measuring reaction, learning, behavior change, and results/ROI. Formative methods covered include expert reviews of interfaces and content, and user reviews through observations and testing. Summative usability testing methods are also outlined, such as heuristic evaluation involving experts and user testing involving representative tasks. The document recommends involving multiple evaluators and 5 users to reliably find a high percentage of usability problems.
This document discusses conducting user experience (UX) benchmarking studies. It begins by outlining the agenda and explaining why companies should run UX benchmarking studies to establish baselines, identify areas for improvement, and track changes over time both internally and against competitors. It provides tips on setting goals and objectives, recruiting appropriate participants, sample sizes needed, and key performance indicators to measure. Finally, it discusses analyzing the data, identifying best practices, and how benchmarking can help build a mature UX organization.
Towards a Continuous UX Improvement Model (UX Camp DC, 01.03.2014)Jeffrey Ryan Pass
The document is a presentation about developing a continuous UX improvement model. It proposes a 10-step UX optimization lifecycle that combines elements of traditional UX and continuous improvement processes. The lifecycle includes goals analysis, requirements gathering, design, testing, implementation, metrics collection, and reporting phases that form a repeating cycle of analysis and improvement. The presentation advocates for this approach to promote evidence-based practices, reduce rework, and institutionalize continuous optimization processes.
Alfonso de la Nuez's talk, "How to conduct global UX benchmarking", at BigDesign event, about what, why, and how to conduct website user experience & usability benchmarking.
The document discusses the development of a performance measurement system for NAF Academies. It involves creating a self-assessment tool to help academies evaluate how well they implement the NAF model. Student data will also be collected through ConnectEDU to measure outcomes. Surveys of students, teachers, parents and employers will provide additional information. The goal is to establish standards and benchmarks, collect indicator data, and analyze and report data to help academies improve and evaluate the impact of the NAF program.
The document discusses Kanban and Kanban boards. It explains that Kanban boards help visualize work, limit work-in-progress, manage flow, make process policies explicit, and facilitate collaborative improvement. This contrasts with traditional project management approaches where tasks often slip and new work is unplanned and causes stress. Kanban principles aim to provide faster value to customers through continual improvement habits and early feedback from demonstrations.
The document outlines steps for identifying and improving a website's top tasks:
1. Conduct research through analytics, surveys, and usability testing to understand how customers interact with and use the site.
2. Define the key tasks customers want to accomplish.
3. Evaluate existing top tasks and measure metrics like conversion rates and usability.
4. Make improvements such as highlighting top tasks, optimizing flows, and removing unnecessary content.
5. Continually evaluate improvements through ongoing testing and analytics.
The document discusses various methods for testing the usability of websites, including scenario-based inspection, heuristic evaluation, and user observation. Scenario-based inspection involves evaluators examining a website to complete tasks and note any problems. Heuristic evaluation has evaluators check if a website follows design principles. User observation involves observing real users complete tasks and recording their experiences. Setting up these tests properly is important and involves choosing participants, creating task descriptions, and deciding how to record the sessions. The results can then be analyzed to identify usability issues and prioritize improvements.
Usability testing refers to evaluating a product or service by testing it with representative users.
We will discuss about:
- Usability Testing
- Type of Usability Testing
- Usability Testing Methodology
- Usability Testing Tools
- Usability Tips and trick
- Usability Case Studies
The document summarizes a usability study conducted on a mobile healthcare app. It describes the study process, which included an expert review by four consultants and a usability test with four nurse participants. The usability test involved tasks, questionnaires, and a System Usability Scale (SUS) survey. Findings uncovered issues in areas like patient profiles, reminders, and notes. Participants indicated features that could simplify their work. Overall, they viewed the app positively and thought it could benefit them, though some functionality improvements were identified.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
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?
QA or the Highway - Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend appl...zjhamm304
These are the slides for the presentation, "Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend applications" that was presented at QA or the Highway 2024 in Columbus, OH by Zachary Hamm.
"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
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMsSease
This talk draws on experimentation to enable AI applications with Solr. One important use case is to use AI for better accessibility and discoverability of the data: while User eXperience techniques, lexical search improvements, and data harmonization can take organizations to a good level of accessibility, a structural (or “cognitive” gap) remains between the data user needs and the data producer constraints.
That is where AI – and most importantly, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model techniques – could make a difference. This natural language, conversational engine could facilitate access and usage of the data leveraging the semantics of any data source.
The objective of the presentation is to propose a technical approach and a way forward to achieve this goal.
The key concept is to enable users to express their search queries in natural language, which the LLM then enriches, interprets, and translates into structured queries based on the Solr index’s metadata.
This approach leverages the LLM’s ability to understand the nuances of natural language and the structure of documents within Apache Solr.
The LLM acts as an intermediary agent, offering a transparent experience to users automatically and potentially uncovering relevant documents that conventional search methods might overlook. The presentation will include the results of this experimental work, lessons learned, best practices, and the scope of future work that should improve the approach and make it production-ready.
"What does it really mean for your system to be available, or how to define w...Fwdays
We will talk about system monitoring from a few different angles. We will start by covering the basics, then discuss SLOs, how to define them, and why understanding the business well is crucial for success in this exercise.
High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024Vadym Kazulkin
Java is for many years one of the most popular programming languages, but it used to have hard times in the Serverless community. Java is known for its high cold start times and high memory footprint, comparing to other programming languages like Node.js and Python. In this talk I'll look at the general best practices and techniques we can use to decrease memory consumption, cold start times for Java Serverless development on AWS including GraalVM (Native Image) and AWS own offering SnapStart based on Firecracker microVM snapshot and restore and CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) runtime hooks. I'll also provide a lot of benchmarking on Lambda functions trying out various deployment package sizes, Lambda memory settings, Java compilation options and HTTP (a)synchronous clients and measure their impact on cold and warm start times.
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/
inQuba Webinar Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr Graham HillLizaNolte
HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT! 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.
In this webinar, we explored essential aspects of Customer Journey Management and personalization. Here’s a summary of the key insights and topics discussed:
Key Takeaways:
Understanding the Customer Journey: Dr. Hill emphasized the importance of mapping and understanding the complete customer journey to identify touchpoints and opportunities for improvement.
Personalization Strategies: We discussed how to leverage data and insights to create personalized experiences that resonate with customers.
Technology Integration: Insights were shared on how inQuba’s advanced technology can streamline customer interactions and drive operational efficiency.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdfUiPathCommunity
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program:
https://bit.ly/Automation_Student_Kickstart
In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
📕 Detailed agenda:
What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
The UiPath End-to-End Automation Platform
UiPath Studio CE Installation and Setup
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Introduction to Automation
UiPath Business Automation Platform
Explore automation development with UiPath Studio
👉 Register here for our upcoming Session 2 on June 20: Introduction to UiPath Studio Fundamentals: https://community.uipath.com/events/details/uipath-lagos-presents-session-2-introduction-to-uipath-studio-fundamentals/