Category: Human-Machine Interaction

When the game is on the line what great athlete (or aspiring great athlete) is found sitting on the sidelines? Jordan, Brady, Gretzky, Phelps, Ali. No matter the circumstance, they were in the game. In the past few days, Ryan and I have toiled with a tough decision. Do we add more stories to the… Continue reading Helping You Make Financial and Lifestyle Decisions in these Qualm Times

Apple is holding, in my opinion, the biggest hand in this entire pandemic situation. They’ve got pocket aces, at least here in the United States, for one very big reason. Apple has the ability to ping approximately 100 million Americans at the same time. It’s an extremely huge responsibility that no other media company or… Continue reading The Monumental Role that Apple News Plays in the COVID-19 Pandemic

The first thing I do when I hit the office is open Slack, Google Drive, and Asana. Three separate workplace software. Three augmentations of productivity. But how will the software that guides our work improve over time? Like anything, workplace software evolves. The three phases are: Siloed, singular work on one’s own software Collaborative work… Continue reading The Next Era of Workplace Software

The cries of a cashless society have been ringing for many years. And while the number of cash purchases is slowly declining, making up 30% of all transactions in the US. This plan of pure efficiency seems about as likely as us reaching a utopia. Possible, but not for at least a couple of generational… Continue reading The Rocky Road to a Cashless Society

Who would’ve ever anticipated that one of the greatest impacts that facial recognition would have on society would be through Snapchat lenses? Face filters and AR lenses have become so much more than kitschy ways of spicing up how we communicate. AR filters have altered the way that people view themselves: Snapchat dysmorphia started to… Continue reading 3 Ways that AR Face Filters Changed the World. And 3 Ideas For How They’ll Do It Again

One of the great financial failures to this point in time is that 12 million Americans are still using payday loan stores and more than 10 million Americans use a check-cashing service. An instant paycheck deduction almost entirely because that person lacks a bank account. Tens of millions of Americans aren’t given the right financial… Continue reading How the Lottery Could Bank the UnBanked

They say there’s no such thing as bad ideas, only bad timing. 3M was clearly a little ahead of the curve when they launched augmented reality sticky notes in 2012. It was a huge moment for AR, not in the sense of being able to write virtual notes. The major development was their use of… Continue reading AR-based Messages Will Change the Way We Shop, Work, and Send Texts

Anyone looking for future job security should go into nursing. The overall aging population is precipitating a massive need for nurses. A need so large that we may not be able to fill it with humans alone. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employment Projections 2016-2026, Registered Nursing (RN) is listed among the top… Continue reading Why Robot Nurses and Drone Window-Washers Have a Similar Path to Automation

How come YouTube can reliably recommend videos they know I’ll consume, but there isn’t a food search engine that’ll recommend healthy meals they know I’ll consume? How come Uber can always find the optimal route to my destination, but I’m completely unaware of an optimal route for my health? In an age when algorithms understand… Continue reading The Digital Guardian for Your Health