LATEST POST:Avoiding the Shelf: How Use Cases can Help XR Adoption Julian Abich, Ph.D.,Senior Human Factors Engineer The media hype behind extended reality (XR) technology promised it would revolutionize how we learn, play, and socialize. While there have been great strides to get mass adoption of this technology, it still has yet to reach market projections. This was one of the key messages I heard at AWE USA 2024, one of the largest spatial computing events in the world. Speaker after speaker kept talking about advancements in XR technology, new features, and software to make it easier for developers to create content. While all this is great, one thing that seemed to be an afterthought was: "What is the need they are trying to fill?"
PREVIOUS POSTS:It all Starts with Why: Designing Safe AI for Children and Considering the Risks Matthew Canham, Ph.D.,Senior AI Research Scientist I recently had a conversation with a five-year-old about Roy G Biv; not some guy named Roy, but the acronym for the colors of the visible spectrum (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet). This discussion grew from the classic child’s question, “Why is the sky blue”? The Roy G Biv conversation led to additional discussions about atmospheric backscattering, electromagnetic absorption versus reflection, and so forth. All these conversational threads shared a common origin and ending, “but why?” Eventually, cognitive fatigue got the best of me, and I relented by explaining that this is how the universe was created and that a higher authority should be consulted. This conversation stayed with me and caused me to speculate about the advantages that an AI-powered personal learning assistant might have or even accelerate a child’s education. Such an assistant would never...
My Friend's Fake Book Mystery Jennifer Solberg, Ph.D., Founder & CEO This is a true crime story. Names have been removed to protect the innocent.
One of my friends is an established author in the learning industry. Recently, she released her second book to great acclaim. One day, she checked her author page and to her shock and horror, an unauthorized book had appeared. "Sell Buy Create Relation Hip" was not written by her. Despite many complaints to Amazon, it was not taken down until very recently. However, this was not before three additional "fake" books showed up. Here's a snippet from one of them, "Learn to Use Time:" "My first job is to learn how to make the most of the time when the work is not yet full in order to enhance and broaden my knowledge as I will soon start working for a growing company. For instance, you should Perks to Performance: An Analysis of NFL Team Report Cards Michael King, Ph.D.,Research Psychologist II NFL organization report cards were released a couple months ago! For the past two years, the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) has surveyed active NFL players to assess various aspects of each NFL team’s organization. The purpose of this is to illuminate what the daily experience is like for players and their families on each team, to serve as a sort of “Free Agency Guide” for all players around the league (Tretter, 2024). In other words, players want to see what it’s like working for different organizations to help them decide where to work (and where to avoid). Luckily, these report cards are published for the public to see, and there were some interesting results.
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