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The UBICOMP lab at the National Taiwan University is investigating, designing and creating working systems that demonstrate how future computing...
London-based firm Mindmetic's Web site reads like the description of an imaginary evil company in a Philip K. Dick science fiction novel: "Mind...
Job satisfaction is at a two-decade low, so I guess it shouldn't be much of a surprise that employers have begun enlisting the help happiness coaches...
Business Week reports that when nutritional information is available on fast-food menus, parents choose about 100 fewer calories per meal for their...
Looking for a way to see if a drug might give you side effects--without having to deal with the whole pesky process of experiencing those effects?...
The possibilities afforded by a world with pervasive Augmented Reality has been a topic of great interest to IFTF for many years now (go here to read...
The current public pronouncements from the China government regarding Google's assertions of government penetration into Google services has been...
The city as a persuasive technology is a theme I plan to return to throughout the Future of Persuasion's research process. By raising or lowering the...
Last night, I had the opportunity to participate in an informal workshop on "What Can Companies Learn From Coworking?" held at New Work City, one of...
Stanford professor BJ Fogg has recently developed a framework for classifying types of behavior change called, appropriately enough, the Fogg Behavior...
The best kind of feedback occurs in the context of the activity that you're seeking feedback about. That's how a control system works -- real-time...
The recent Supreme Court decision in Citizens United vs. FEC has received more attention and soul-searching commentary about the nature of our...
On Wednesday, January 19, IFTF released the report The Future of Real-Time Video Communication. This report addressed the question: What is the...
Quit smoking, lose weight, get in shape. Now that we are three weeks into 2010, how many of us need help sticking to our New Year's resolutions? ...
I spent the last couple days at the Personalized Medicine World Conference and one of the most intriguing companies I encountered was a small startup...
Nadav Aharony, an MIT Media Lab graduate student, studies how that data that's passively collected by mobile devices can be used to predict the user's...
Nathan Verrill, an interaction designer, applied gaming guru, and usability expert who among other things was a key figure in the development of our...
Every year The Edge organization asks a "world question" and Edge members answer it in short essays. Question 2010 is: How is the Internet changing...
Readers of the New York Times received an odd juxtaposition over the last couple days that can be roughly summed up as: A small but growing number of...
Even as I write this, the Health Horizons team is in the middle of participating in the SharpBrains Virtual Summit, which you can follow on Twitter at...
For many years now, serious academic researchers have been looking closely at the concept, technologies, and implications of persuasion. This Spring,...
If you use an avatar to communicate with others, you might want to consider how your avatar is priming others to respond to...