c_man posted:

i dont think the "game" aspects have very much longevity for the pretty straightforward reasons that people have brought up already, but i think it prompted the development of certain kinds of infrastructures (often involving mobile electronics and either microtransactions or brief queries for information) that we will probably see more of going forward.

i'm being forced to work in UX and i wondered what the industry term is for how error messages now try to sound cutesy, like a college roommate you don't like telling you they broke a piece of furniture. my current tentative label for it is "Very carefully"

cars posted:

roseweird posted:

UX doesn't sound so bad

as stuff i do goes it's pretty easy and fun. i appreciate how my bosses will come up with a dumb idea and tell me to do it and 99% of the time i can go to the people who handle the consumer research and they'll come back immediately and tell my bosses to fuck off and the boss is like okay i accept the Crowd as my father and priest king.

UX features should probably just be decided by a UX-knowledgable person but who am i to question capitalism, the most efficient system

cars posted:

i'm being forced to work in UX

The yucks youre working on here sound pretty forced too

tears posted:

installing a chatbot onto a manequin and then getting it to preform fake emotions on its fake face at the saudi arabia public investment forum to an audience of billionaries is a powerful troll

they've successfully weaponized our news media to bombard us with headlines so stupid they make me want to kill myself. a masterstroke of modern warfare.

rolaids posted:

are they still doing promotion or is this the shit that got canceled

“We couldn’t find the school that we felt would nurture growth, her spirit as well as her mind,” Neumann says. “These children come into the world, they are very evolved, they are very special. They’re spiritual. They’re all natural entrepreneurs, natural humanitarians, and then it seems like we squash it all out of them in the education system. Then we ask them to be disruptive and find it again after college.”
Although the exact nature of the relationship between her education startup and the communal real-estate venture WeWork – which is valued at $20 billion – is not totally resolved, the two enterprises at minimum share a mission. Much as WeWork aspires to help its members do what they love (as one of its slogans asserts), WeGrow wants children to “understand their superpowers,” she says.

The B.C. government, along with ICBC and other officials will be launching two pilot programs to test technology that may help put the brakes on distracted driving.

The first will test out a Bluetooth-enabled scope that will be able to capture images of people on their phones and then instantly share them with other officers in the area.

The officers will then have the ability to show the image to the distracted driver when they are pulled over.

The second program pairs phone apps with telematic technology, meaning a small device is fitted in the driver’s vehicle that communicates with an app downloaded on the driver’s phone.

The app works to block the use of a handheld device when the technology detects the vehicle is being driven.

needless to say, i have some problems

One person interested in emotion analytics technology is Luke Fryer, CEO of New York-based Harri, a services firm that provides what it terms a "workforce operating system." This system provides everything needed to manage a workforce, including recruiting, learning management, scheduling, time and attendance, and performance analysis.

Harri uses face recognition in an iPad-based time clock, but the interface is also a two-way communication tool for pass-along announcements and getting worker feedback. For a restaurant worker, for instance, it may show today's specials by picture or video and "allow an employee to instantly provide feedback" about the special, he said.

Fryer said Harri's facial recognition systems could be adapted to also detect mood at the point of clock-out.

Fryer hasn't deployed this capability and is open about his reservations.

"There's something very Big Brother about it," Fryer said. Nonetheless, the technology may be useful, he argued. He noted that there is a high degree of inaccuracy on manually collected feedback when someone, for instance, is asked to rate something on a scale of one to five. But he believes that emotion analytics software may more accurately tell how employees really feel.

If an employer learns that 60% of the employees had an "anxious expression" when asked something, "that might tell us something about the underlying feedback we're getting," Fryer said.

I wonder what emotion the computer will register immediately before a worker throws himself across the table and starts strangling the HR guy