Interesting Reads – 2018-09-06
Contents
Articles
- Money At Your Fingertips
- Using Neuroscience to Make Feedback Work and Feel Better
- Google hits 20 but will struggle to become a trillion dollar company like Apple
- A Critical Look at Claims for Green Technologies
- 10 Mobile Learning Trends to Know before 2019
- Technical Debt Might Be Hindering Your Digital Transformation
- 5 User Interface Mistakes That Drive Customers Away
- What Comes After Smartphones? The Next Mobile Computing Platform Is Already Emerging
- Threats to Autonomy from Emerging ICTs
- 10 ways to use social media to get your research noticed
Events
/ Announcements
- ACM India Chennai Professional Chapter Expert Talk on “Applying Machine Learning to support Human Learning”
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Articles
Money
At Your Fingertips
Digitisation
has reached a level where you can manage your entire financial world with
clicks and taps. Here is what all you can do and how you can manage personal
finance digitally.
Using Neuroscience to Make Feedback Work and Feel Better
Research shows that using feedback is how organisms
— and organizations — stay alive. Here’s how leaders can make the most of the
anxiety-producing process.
Google hits 20 but will struggle to become a trillion dollar company
like Apple
As Google marks its 20th birthday, its success seems
so well known and so often repeated that it runs like a myth. But Google needs
to examine where it has failed and face some serious challenges if it wants the
next 20 years to be anywhere near as successful.
Related
story: Google at 20: how a search engine became a literal extension of our
mind
Related
story: How will Google's innovation continue beyond its 20th year?
A Critical Look at Claims for Green Technologies
Green technologies are not yet proved, affordable,
or deployable—but even if they were, it would still take them generations to
solve our environmental problems
10
Mobile Learning Trends to Know before 2019
Are
you ready for the mobile-first future? Mobile learning is guaranteed to live up
to the hype, which is why Docebo has outlined the 10 top trends that need to be
on your radar for 2019 (including actionable insights designed to help you
implement them). Download the whitepaper to see why:
- Mobile-first design plays a crucial role in learning content delivery
- Personalization will play an even larger role in guiding learning paths
- AI eliminates admin barriers while improving overall learning experiences
Download
(registration required)
Technical
Debt Might Be Hindering Your Digital Transformation
Technical debt — the price companies pay for short-term technological fixes — hinders their ability to innovate and adapt in the digital age. One strategy to combat technical debt? Digital decoupling.
Organizations face intense pressure to keep
themselves at the leading edge of IT capabilities. Sometimes, however, the need
for fast technology solutions forces them to make short-term programming and
systems-architecture decisions. In doing so, they accrue and compound an
invisible technical debt — the price they will one day need to pay to make it
right.
As IT software and infrastructure age, and as more
features are added to legacy systems, technical debt grows and puts additional
fixed operating costs on the company, diverting precious investment in
innovation and new capabilities. Over time, the challenge of connecting and
updating these systems becomes overwhelming for IT teams, and undertaking
strategic digital transformations as an organization becomes even more
difficult.
Companies seeking to expand their businesses across
the globe may find themselves hindered by an untenable IT environment — a
patchwork of hundreds of different systems that slow collaboration and make it
difficult to scale innovation.
5 User
Interface Mistakes That Drive Customers Away
When
it comes to website and app design, user interface (UI) is king. After all,
your users see the UI first and they will continue to interact with it on a
regular basis. Website users value the user interface so much, a typical
visitor will form an opinion about your website within 50 milliseconds — and
you can guarantee that level of expectation translates to apps, too.
And
yet it’s common to see websites and apps launch with glaring UI mistakes that
drastically degrade the user experience. In this article, we will discuss five
of the most common (and therefore most frustrating)
Related
story: 13 Must-Have User Experience
(UX) Design Skills
What
Comes After Smartphones? The Next Mobile Computing Platform Is Already Emerging
A
look at the current state of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality — and why
these technologies will be the building blocks for smartphone disruption.
Smartphones
are now hyper-personalized. With some 6 billion apps available on iPhones and
Androids, smartphones serve as everything from email machines to AR-based
Pokemon-catchers.
But
their small size isn’t well suited to the myriad tasks they now perform. And
simply increasing screen size doesn’t really resolve this problem — especially
as people increasingly look to their devices for immersive media experiences.
Threats
to Autonomy from Emerging ICTs
This paper examines threats to autonomy created by significant emerging ICTs. Emerging ICTs cover a wide range of technologies, from intelligent environments to neuroelectronics, and human autonomy is potentially threatened by all of them in some way. However, there is no single agreed definition of autonomy. This paper therefore considers the ways in which different accounts of autonomy are impacted by the different IC technologies. From this range of threats we will derive some properties which any ICT must exhibit in order to threaten human autonomy. Finally, we will show how the range of definitions of autonomy creates problems for customary approaches to vale-sensitive design, and how this indicates a need for greater flexibility when attempting to improve the ethical status of emerging ICTs.
10 ways to use social media to get your research noticed
In
this blog, Amy Mollett, Cheryl Brumley, Chris Gilson and Sierra Williams –
authors of Communicating Your Research with Social Media: A Practical Guide to
Using Blogs, Podcasts, Data Visualisations and Video – offer 10 tips that can
help you to utilise social media to ensure your research reaches a wider
audience.
Events / Announcements
ACM India Chennai Professional
Chapter Expert Talk on “Applying Machine Learning to support Human Learning”
The
expert talk on “Applying Machine Learning to support Human Learning” will be
delivered by Dr. Manish Gupta, Co-founder
and CEO of Videoken Inc., Infosys Foundation Chair Professor, IIIT Bangalore
on 12th Sep 2018 at 5.30 p.m. at Aryabhatta Hall (CS 25), Department of CSE, IIT
Madras.
Registration is FREE. However, if you intend to
attend the talk, please register to facilitate logistics.
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