In my work as a web psychologist, I’m exposed to many different types of user behavior and online decision-making processes. Although each person is different and has an individual style, I have identified six recurring patterns of behavior that I identify as specific “online personality types.” In this piece, I’ll discuss the six pattern types, explain the psychological drivers of their behavior, and provide site optimization tips that online businesses can use to leverage each type’s unique desires. READ MORE: Designing for Different Online Personality Types | UX Magazine
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The Only Metric That Matters For #Content #Marketing | TechCrunch #digital #metrics #engagement
At Pixable, we — like almost every digital property — are in the eyeball game. We are one of thousands of media companies competing for attention, and, in our case, we seek the attention of young, highly social readers with seemingly infinite interests. It goes without saying that attention grabbing begins with a catchy headline (in fact, we tested three headlines for this article alone), but the real challenge is this: After getting the audience’s attention, how do you keep it? READ: The Only Metric That Matters For Content Marketing | TechCrunch
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This Girls’ Summer Camp Could Help Change the World of #AI | WIRED #women #tech #genderequality #STEM
IN A SPARSE lecture room at Stanford University, six students are rehearsing a presentation they’ll later give to a roomful of VIPs from the university’s artificial intelligence lab…It’s presentation day at SAILORS, the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory’s Outreach Summer program, the country’s first AI summer camp for girls. Backed by more than forty university professors, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students from the lab, as well as big-name corporate sponsors like Google, the camp aims to remove the Achilles heel of AI research and, indeed, computer science as a whole: there aren’t enough women. READ MORE: This Girls’ Summer Camp Could Help Change the World of AI | WIRED
Assistive Technology and Implantable Wearables | #assistivetech #implantables #wearables #health #disabilities #tech
Many of us increasingly experiencing technology overload from all the devices, gadgets, products and tools at our fingertips. For individuals with disabilities though, technological advancements are providing opportunities to improve quality of life through innovations in assistive technology. Implantable wearables are also improving quality of life through the ability to seamlessly interact with our environments using devices such as magnets and sensors embedded under the skin. Below is a collection of select stories from around the web about recent advancements in assistive technologies and implantable devices.
Assistive Technology
- How wearable technology is changing the lives of disabled people | Globe & Mail
- 3D-printed robotic prosthetic wins 2015 UK James Dyson Award | CNET
- Boy, nine, fitted with first prosthetic hand that can change grip with gestures | The Guardian
- Watch A Girl Named Isabella Unpack A New 3-D Printed Arm | TechCrunch
- A Lego-Friendly Prosthetic Arm Lets #Kids Build Their Own Attachments | Gizmodo #Lego #disabilities
- A bionic hand in five days: how tech innovation is changing lives | The Guardian
- Amplifying the Power of the Elderly with 3D Printed Assistive Technologies | 3DPrint
- This device transforms any bicycle into a smartphone-powered smart vehicle | Mashable
- I’m a legally blind photographer. Here’s how modern technology makes that possible. | Vox
- Digital pens help spot early signs of brain conditions | Engadget
- Being colorblind is tougher than you think. This tech colors my world | CNET
- The Coming Wave of Bionic Hearing Gadgets | MIT Technology Review
- Can technology make a hearing-centric world more accessible? | The Verge
- Blind Americans can now ‘see’ with a device that uses their tongues | Mashable
- Tongue-controlled wheelchairs could be boon for quadriplegics | Tech Times
- Color-changing helmets could warn you about head injuries | Engadget
- Hacking for those with disabilities | MIT News
- New Stretchy Electronics Will Help Us Stay Healthy And Safe | TechCrunch
- ‘Brain-to-Text’ system converts speech brainwave patterns to text | KurzweilAI
- Disabled people remotely pilot robot in another country with their thoughts | KurzweilAI
- The #Software Stephen Hawking Uses to Talk to the World is now #Free | Engadget #communication #disabilities #tech
- BBC Experiment Lets You Control iPlayer With Your Mind | Engadget #gadgets #disabilities #tech
- #AugmentedReality #AR Goggles Aim to Help Legally Blind See | MIT Technology Review #tech #gadgets #disabilities @TechReview
- New Tablet Case Recognizes Sign Language and Translates It Into Text | WIRED
- 10 Ingenious Inventions for People With Disabilities | Mashable
Implantables
- This Woman Doesn’t Wear Wearables. She Implants Them | WIRED
- From The Designers Of Fitbit, A Digital Tattoo Implanted Under Your Skin | FastCompany
- Injectable Implants Could Help Crack the Brain’s Codes | MIT Technology Review
- Woman Puts Deus Ex On Computer Chip In Her Hand | Kotaku
- Top 10 Implantable Wearables Soon To Be In Your Body | WT Vox
- Top Five Implantable Wearables | Technowize
- Implantable Microchips are the Ultimate Wearable | CE.org
Apps
- 3 lessons from developers who have embraced assistive technology | Mashable
- Be My Eyes Lets You Help A Visually-Impaired Person See Via Their Phone’s Video Camera | TechCrunch
- Google’s new handwriting app wants you to scribble on-screen | CNET
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This self-paced, online course is intended for anyone who wants to learn more about how to structure, visualize, and manipulate data. This includes students, educators, researchers, journalists, and small business owners.
Prerequisites: Course completion requires an internet-enabled desktop or laptop computer. Course participation requires a Google account. Knowledge of statistics is not required. Basic familiarity with spreadsheets and comfort using a web browser is recommended. Knowledge of statistics and experience with programming are not required. THE COURSE: Making Sense of Data | Google
The 3-D Printed Violin That Could Lead to a New Stradivarius | WIRED #music #3Dprinting #violins
This video of Laurent Bernadac, an engineer and lifelong musician, playing the violin looks and sounds very little like a person playing the violin. For one thing, he’s also using a looper and effects pedals to jam out something funkier and jazzier than you’d expect from an instrument more commonly associated with classical and country. But, more ostensibly, Bernadac is playing something that looks more like an avian skeleton than a stringed instrument. It’s like the ghost of a violin.
It’s a 3Dvarius, a 3-D printed electric violin. It’s based on the renowned Stradivarius violins crafted by the Stradivari family in the late 1600s and early 1700s, but you’d have a hard time sleuthing out the shared DNA between the two machines. It is, as Bernadac says, “a new kind of musical instrument,” one with an algorithmically optimized weight and a digital sound. READ MORE: The 3-D Printed Violin That Could Lead to a New Stradivarius | WIRED.
Where Are The #Women In #Tech? #Coding Bootcamps | Fast Company #diversity #STEM
Only 29% of all employees across the most influential U.S. technology companies—Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Intel—are women. But that includes salespeople, service workers, and communications professionals. Companies that break out gender ratio by role report an an even more drastic disparity. At Twitter, 10% of technical workers are women. At Facebook, it’s 16%.
Computer science programs across the country report a similar dearth of women. As of 2012, the last year for which the National Science Foundation has published data, only about 18% of degrees in the field were obtained by women, the lowest percentage of any STEM discipline. But there is one corner of this pale, male landscape that has less of a gender imbalance than others: coding schools. READ MORE: Where Are The Women In Tech? Coding Bootcamps | Fast Company | Business + Innovation.
Are #Tablets Harming Our Children’s Ability to Read? | Technology | The Guardian #reading #kids #tech #devices
The last few years have seen the biggest change in how young people spend their time since the invention of the television – but is it a good thing? READ MORE: Are tablet computers harming our children’s ability to read? | Technology | The Guardian.
#Stream 58 Hours of #Free #Classical #Music Selected to Help You Study, Work, or Simply Relax | Open Culture #streaming #spotify
Lovers of classical music have a third online option, thanks to an enterprising digital curator who goes by the name of Ulyssestone and who compiled the Spotify playlist above of 58 hours of classical music — from Sibelius to Satie, Bach to Debussy. It’s designed for anyone who wants to study, work, or simply relax. READ MORE: Stream 58 Hours of Free Classical Music Selected to Help You Study, Work, or Simply Relax | Open Culture.
NMC Horizon #Report: 2015 Library Edition | NMC.org #libraries #emerging #trends #tech
What is on the five-year horizon for academic and research libraries? The NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Library Edition examines key trends, significant challenges, and important developments in technology for their impact on academic and research libraries worldwide. via NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Library Edition | NMC.org.
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