The first time I was asked to “own” product research at work, I thought I would build a Mad Social Science Lab… in about 3 months-time. That was wrong. The building never ends and “I” wasn’t the one building anything. Honestly, I was an admirer of the Mad Scientist trope in fiction. Not the world […]
Not So Mad Science: Leading a Research Team in the Real World Read More »
Over the last decade or so, my husband and I have adopted the saying “we’ll never get to Alpha Centauri that way.” We pull it out in situations where we observe people being petty, distracted, mean, or otherwise acting against their own collective potential. It wasn’t until recently, however, that I noticed that the idea
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I started writing this post in March of 2015. Yeah, I overthink things and get a bit distracted. In fairness, the draft consisted of the following: Use my data for me. The AI in Sunshine. Pic from movie… Not really a complete picture, but since I have not STOPPED using technology or watching science fiction in
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Forgive me for not staying up on the (social) science behind Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), but I remember it being very interesting in 2000. It was hot! Everywhere you turned in my beloved field of Human Factors (or in this case, my much loved cousin Human-Computer Interaction) researchers were examining how to augment human
