“Thinking Big: Large Media, Creativity, and Collaboration” now available
While you can only read the first two paragraphs of my Scientific American cubesats article on their Web site, another article of mine that came out today, "Thinking
Was Weiser really wrong? Rogers on creating “engaging ubicomp experiences”
I've been reading Yvonne Rogers' 2006 article, "Moving on from Weiser's vision of of calm computing: engaging UbiComp experiences." Rogers is a professor at Open University, and a longtime
Talk about contemplative computing
This is a Prezi outlining my contemplative computing work. I initially created it for a talk at Microsoft Research, but expect I'll be updating it over the next couple
Dan Ariely on the paradox of productivity tools
Dan Ariely has a good post about why our current "productivity tools" generate time-wasting or addictive behavior: he looks to B. F. Skinner's work on "schedules of reinforcement"
Quote of the day
On the downside of ease: [Learning things] the hard way's hard, but not as hard as the easy way. (Esmeralda Weatherwax, in Terry Pratchett's Lords and Ladies)
Calendars, concentration, and creativity
Via Lifehacker, a nice little essay on "the chokehold of calendars," and how we've accidentally (or thoughtlessly) designed them to kill our productivity and concentration: The idea of
“Solvitur ambulando” was the first expression of embodied cognition
In the New York Times, Edinburgh philosopher Andy Clark has a nice essay on embodied cognition. If you’re familiar with his book Natural Born Cyborgs, you’ll already know
“Personal technologies today are prosthetics for our minds,” but we need “personal technologies that are prosthetics for our beings”
Linda Stone makes the case for post-productive, "conscious computing:" Personal technologies today are prosthetics for our minds.... Thirty years ago, personal computing technologies created a revolution in personal
Mindfulness and contemplation in weight loss, futures, and computing
Over the last couple years I've lost about fifty pounds. As nerdy as this will sound, while I was a fat kid and spent my adult life overweight,
Mindfulness and contemplation in weight loss, futures, and computing
Over the last couple years I've lost about fifty pounds. As nerdy as this will sound, while I was a fat kid and spent my adult life overweight,