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Upcoming MediaX events
Upcoming Media X Seminars and An Invitation
PSD: A Model for Persuasive Systems Design
Wednesday, May 13
5:30 PM 124 Wallenberg Hall
Speaker: Haari Oinas-Kukkonen, Professor, University of Oulu
A growing number of information technology systems and services are being developed to change users’ attitudes or behavior or both. Despite the fact that attitudinal theories from social psychology have been quite extensively applied to the study of user intentions and behavior, these theories have been developed for predicting user acceptance of the information technology rather than for providing systematic analysis and design methods for developing persuasive software solutions. This presentation will describe the PSD model for persuasive systems design and evaluation. It will highlight seven underlying key issues behind persuasive systems and ways to analyze the persuasion context (the intent, the event, and the strategy). We will introduce 28 design principles for persuasive system content and functionality with example software requirements and implementations, and a categorization of the principles into the primary task, dialogue, system credibility, and social support categories. We will also describe experiences from three projects in which the model has been applied: Supporting healthier lifestyles through motivating for proper ways for exercising, providing Web-based alcohol interventions, and analyzing the state of art of persuasive systems design as a research area.
Visualization Convergence
for Collective, Connective, and Distributed Intelligence
Monday, May 18
4:00 PM 124 Wallenberg Hall
Speaker: Bonnie DeVarco, Media-Tertia
Today’s leading edge information and geographic visualization technologies are rapidly becoming instruments for connective intelligence on the World Wide Web. People can now easily travel around Earth and through space on their computers and mobile devices with the ubiquitous tool, Google Earth. At the same time, new data visualization tools allow us to travel through the patterns of shared knowledge and scholarship using new mapping methods that are both pragmatic and illuminating. Whether tracking and predicting epidemics, making national policy decisions, or identifying emerging scientific paradigms, these new maps and visualization methodologies are effective tools for clear thinking and collective action. Bonnie will survey the recent history of these tools, their networks of users, and their current state-of-practice. She will also present and discuss new trends, showing how these technologies are converging and amplifying their importance for global communication and collaboration
You are invited to join us afterward for the Places and Spaces Exhibit Reception
Understanding the Global Economic Crisis:
A Text Analysis and Summarization Approach
Tuesday, May 19
4:00 PM 124 Wallenberg Hall
Speaker: Shuhua Liu, Academy Research Fellow, Academy of Finland
Fast and extensive developments in natural language technology have been made in the past two decades. In this study we explore the possibilities of applying text analysis and summarization tools to learn from text documents. Of particular interest are the various discussions surrounding the current economic crisis, identifying opinion clusters, contradictory opinions, tracking the market sentiment, and the warning signals of economic crisis. We include in our analysis the news, selected announcements, publications from governments and international organizations, and blogs of influential economists.
Resetting Assumptions for Distance Collaboration
Tuesday, May 26
4:00 PM 124 Wallenberg Hall
Panel:
Casey King, Chief Technology Officer of LifeSize Communications
Matt Collier, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of LifeSize Communications
Ross Mayfield, Founder/President/Chairman of Socialtext.
Panel Moderator: Ann Bamesberger, Sun Microsystems
As people continue to find new ways to take advantage of digital tools and networks, old assumptions about what it means to work remotely no longer apply. Fundamental social changes are occurring as the gaps in time and distance, which were at some point sufficiently bridged, are phasing through insignificance and moving towards irrelevance. Two developments in particular are core to these changes: social networking and simple, inexpensive high-definition video conferencing. Communicating across the network was only the first step. These new tools and practices are pushing further by giving users a tangible presence within the network medium itself. We are no longer launching messages from the shore across the sea, but rather swimming out to meet somewhere amongst the ripples to engage and build connections shaped by a rapidly evolving culture of interaction.
How should our expectations for distance collaboration change in the context of this evolution? Join a panel of experts from Sun Microsystem's Open Work Services Group, Socialtext, and LifeSize Communications as we explore this question.
Unless otherwise noted, attendance is open, subject to availability.
PSD: A Model for Persuasive Systems Design
Wednesday, May 13
5:30 PM 124 Wallenberg Hall
Speaker: Haari Oinas-Kukkonen, Professor, University of Oulu
A growing number of information technology systems and services are being developed to change users’ attitudes or behavior or both. Despite the fact that attitudinal theories from social psychology have been quite extensively applied to the study of user intentions and behavior, these theories have been developed for predicting user acceptance of the information technology rather than for providing systematic analysis and design methods for developing persuasive software solutions. This presentation will describe the PSD model for persuasive systems design and evaluation. It will highlight seven underlying key issues behind persuasive systems and ways to analyze the persuasion context (the intent, the event, and the strategy). We will introduce 28 design principles for persuasive system content and functionality with example software requirements and implementations, and a categorization of the principles into the primary task, dialogue, system credibility, and social support categories. We will also describe experiences from three projects in which the model has been applied: Supporting healthier lifestyles through motivating for proper ways for exercising, providing Web-based alcohol interventions, and analyzing the state of art of persuasive systems design as a research area.
Visualization Convergence
for Collective, Connective, and Distributed Intelligence
Monday, May 18
4:00 PM 124 Wallenberg Hall
Speaker: Bonnie DeVarco, Media-Tertia
Today’s leading edge information and geographic visualization technologies are rapidly becoming instruments for connective intelligence on the World Wide Web. People can now easily travel around Earth and through space on their computers and mobile devices with the ubiquitous tool, Google Earth. At the same time, new data visualization tools allow us to travel through the patterns of shared knowledge and scholarship using new mapping methods that are both pragmatic and illuminating. Whether tracking and predicting epidemics, making national policy decisions, or identifying emerging scientific paradigms, these new maps and visualization methodologies are effective tools for clear thinking and collective action. Bonnie will survey the recent history of these tools, their networks of users, and their current state-of-practice. She will also present and discuss new trends, showing how these technologies are converging and amplifying their importance for global communication and collaboration
You are invited to join us afterward for the Places and Spaces Exhibit Reception
Understanding the Global Economic Crisis:
A Text Analysis and Summarization Approach
Tuesday, May 19
4:00 PM 124 Wallenberg Hall
Speaker: Shuhua Liu, Academy Research Fellow, Academy of Finland
Fast and extensive developments in natural language technology have been made in the past two decades. In this study we explore the possibilities of applying text analysis and summarization tools to learn from text documents. Of particular interest are the various discussions surrounding the current economic crisis, identifying opinion clusters, contradictory opinions, tracking the market sentiment, and the warning signals of economic crisis. We include in our analysis the news, selected announcements, publications from governments and international organizations, and blogs of influential economists.
Resetting Assumptions for Distance Collaboration
Tuesday, May 26
4:00 PM 124 Wallenberg Hall
Panel:
Casey King, Chief Technology Officer of LifeSize Communications
Matt Collier, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of LifeSize Communications
Ross Mayfield, Founder/President/Chairman of Socialtext.
Panel Moderator: Ann Bamesberger, Sun Microsystems
As people continue to find new ways to take advantage of digital tools and networks, old assumptions about what it means to work remotely no longer apply. Fundamental social changes are occurring as the gaps in time and distance, which were at some point sufficiently bridged, are phasing through insignificance and moving towards irrelevance. Two developments in particular are core to these changes: social networking and simple, inexpensive high-definition video conferencing. Communicating across the network was only the first step. These new tools and practices are pushing further by giving users a tangible presence within the network medium itself. We are no longer launching messages from the shore across the sea, but rather swimming out to meet somewhere amongst the ripples to engage and build connections shaped by a rapidly evolving culture of interaction.
How should our expectations for distance collaboration change in the context of this evolution? Join a panel of experts from Sun Microsystem's Open Work Services Group, Socialtext, and LifeSize Communications as we explore this question.
Unless otherwise noted, attendance is open, subject to availability.
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