Theories about persuasion

These are psychological theories about how we persuade. Saved By: Yossarian | View Details | Give Thanks
Preparing for User Research Interviews: Seven Things to Remember :: UXmatters

Experienced researchers may become more comfortable in different kinds of interview situations and have an easier time interacting with participants during interview sessions. But, over time, researchers may also develop familiar patterns for asking questions and ways of interacting with participants that could prevent them from uncovering a unique perspective in the context of a particular interview. Also, the introduction of bias in an interview is often subtle, and it may be difficult even for researchers with years of experience to notice it during one of their own sessions. Saved By: Valentin Likyov | View Details | Give Thanks
A List Apart: Articles: Get Out from Behind the Curtain

?Including clients in the design process? may sound like death by a thousand paper cuts. I used to think that designing with clients was a really bad idea. Saved By: Nick D | View Details | Give Thanks
4 - 8 minute video segments taken from the miniseries "The Elegant Universe".
Gray, an emeritus professor at the atmospheric science department at Colorado State University, has long railed against the theory that heat-trapping gases generated by human activity are causing the world to warm.
A scholarly essay in 1947, says CNET News.com's Charles Cooper, had an awful lot to say about how we live with computers today.
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"Your memo conjures up repugnant images of Judaism used for thousands of years to smear the Jewish people as cult-like and manipulative," wrote Bill Nigut, the league's Southeast regional director.
Peering backward in time to an instant after the big bang, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised an approach that may help unlock the hidden shapes of alternate dimensions of the universe.
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If the theories are correct, there are countless cosmic superstrings stretched like a galactic-sized rubber band. They resemble ultra-thin tubes with some of the vacuum of the early universe preserved inside, Hogan said. The strings can form into loops that "flop around" and emit gravitational waves as they decay and eventually disappear.
David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms: Home
Explains why huge companies like Sears collapse almost overnight, and why this year's most popular new product can quickly become last year's forgotten fad. -- The article introduces a radical new theory of consumer choice and challenges existing CRM management theories.
Is there a way to set up a chess game where a 6-year old can match up a grand master? Can a blind quadriplegic compete in a massive multiplayer game against sighted, non-motor-disabled, gamers? Can two people cooperatively share a role playing game, when one of them is using a mobile phone and the other a next generation game console?







