Clifford Nass, Roy Pea, and the rest of the circle in the Stanford communications and education programs do some really interesting work on multitasking, our attitudes to computers,
When I saw this article my jaw Hit. The. Floor. Skype calls to feature ads big enough to interrupt any conversation Skype to serve up personalized ads, hoping
Last night I went to a presentation on calming technologies at Stanford's d.school. Neema Moraveji, who I interviewed last year for my contemplative computing book, is teaching at
The Atlantic reports on new research exploring how smart phones affect the way people perceive and act in public space. Smart phones, the piece argues, "combine numerous spheres:
From Rob Horning's essay in New Inquiry:The attack on unrecorded sociality, on its existance as an ephemeral, oral phenomenon, is an effort to subsume social behavior as a
A few days ago I was out having a beer with some HCI friends who had just sent their proposals off to CSCW. They were in a mood
Joe Kraus, a partner at Google Ventures, posted a talk last week about Slow Tech which I highly recommend. Here's the abstract: We are creating and encouraging a
The term "contemplative computing" may sound contradictory or complicated, but it's really pretty simple. Information technologies promise to make us smarter and more efficient, but all too often
In between applying for jobs and working on my latest book proposal (working title, Contemplative Computing and the Goblet of Fire), I read Andrew Keen's article on social
Balloon Juice: I think TED talks are the worst example of modern faux-intellectualism. Audience flattering, based on ego and personality, dripping with self-congratulation, they contribute to one of