The real world establishes the paradigm that science fiction then extends. Authors Nathan Shedroff and Chris Noessel are working on a book to explore that design relationship.
TED Conversations
Conversations will take three forms (Questions, Ideas, and Debates) and have the option to be tied to up to 10 video talks. The posts will also include an important setting: a time limit.
Crowdsourced Crowds
Hysterical Hoosiers, an initiative to brainstorm creative fan chants for Indiana University basketball games, is off to a good start. But can we avoid f*&#ing is up.
A Quick Look at Songwriting
Five Year Mission is an Indiana band writing songs inspired by Star Trek. They were the subject of an HCI/d course research assignment on music and music culture.
A Troll Case Study
Courtney Stanton posted some thoughts in a blog post. 900 comments later, she had an interesting Ignite talk about the nature of Trolls.
Empathy and Diversity
Political forums are constructed on actor networks. As technology allows us to re-think how we govern, we also have to balance the value of expertise, diversity, and the structure of our networks to allow for both information flow and behavior change.
Battling Otherizing
When our goals are to persuade, frustration surfaces in the form of hyperbole and presumption about the motivations and expectations of others. Elizabeth Lesser’s solution is to take those people to lunch.