Tuesday, July 31, 2018

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Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction - Affordances (?В М д с П)

I'd recommend this valuable resource, compiled by a number of researchers in the field of HCI. https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-encyclopedia-of-human-computer-interaction-2nd-ed It's a good food for thought. The writing may sound too academical, however even if one gets bored or tired by this style, the titles of the chapters themselves and their sequence, the topics and the pictures and tables, the historical exploration of the subjects are suggestive on their own. Part of  my way to dig and reflect...
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Saturday, July 28, 2018

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Rising inequality and AI - a comment on something funny from notes from the AAAI 2018 conference

A) From: https://david-abel.github.io/blog/posts/misc/aaai_2018.pdf  Seen in Montreal AI. p.14/82 " His Take: When we reach the place where robots do takeover, what do we do? The concern: “those who own the robots rule the world”. Traditionalist Response: You see AI robots in the headlines, but not in the productivity or job statistics! Same with computers. Productivity growth in the 2010s is lower than in the last five decades. E/Pop is high, unemployment is low. Rising inequality began before AI as a result of measured...
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