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Lift12 speaker profile: Sebastian Deterding, a seasoned user experience designer
January 25, 2012 - 12:10 — Alexandre Renevier
Please meet Lift12 speaker Sebastian Deterding who is a designer and researcher currently best known for his stance on "gamification", which he has presented at events like CHI, Playful, Web Directions, and DiGRA. He speaks and publishes internationally on gameful design, persuasive technology, and the social contexts of games at venues such as the Gamification Summit, Gamescom, reboot, or Google. He pursues a PhD on the motivational psychology of ‘gameified’ applications at Hamburg University.
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Lift12 speaker profile: Anaïs Saint-Jude on technological overload
December 15, 2011 - 10:22 — Alexandre Renevier
Anaïs Saint-Jude is the founder and director of the Stanford University's BiblioTech Program. She has researched this feeling of overload over the ages, and will put it in perspective during the Lift12 opening session. Some of her ideas and findings will help the audience build a better relationship to the mass of information that surrounds us.
Why did we invite Anais? Lift12 curator Laurent Haug explains:
"Technological overload is everywhere. I don't know anyone who doesn't think he or she has too many emails. As most of us feel overwhelmed, we look for solutions in the external world. You know, better email clients, prioritization systems, filters, etc. Well, there is a good and a bad news. The good: there is a solution. The bad: it is not a tool. It is our perception of things.
Technological overload is not new. In fact,the oldest traces of overload I could find date of 1613, when Barnaby Rich (British author) wrote that “one of the diseases of this age is the multiplicity of books; they doth so overcharge the world that it is not able to digest the abundance of idle matter that is every day hatched and brought forth into the world“.
Every time humanity invents something that facilitates the movement of knowledge, overload seems to be the lot of the first generations that have to deal with it. And with the web being probably one of the biggest of these inventions, it is no wonder we will need a bit of time to adapt. And to accept the fact that there is too much information, and that it is ok. Nobody walks into a library feeling oppressed because, even if reading 1 book a day, a human being will only be able to read maybe 0.0001% of all the text that has been written. This is how we should approach the internet.
Anaïs' work will help us put this question in perspective, and I hope her presentation will help the audience react and find solution to a problem that is becoming more and more pervasive as technologies invade our lives."
Speakers profile: Melanie Rieback
February 18, 2009 - 20:01 — Audrey Richard-Laurent
Dr. Melanie Rieback is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, in the group of Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum. Melanie’s research concerns the security and privacy of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, and she leads multidisciplinary research teams on RFID security (RFID Malware) and RFID privacy management (RFID Guardian) projects. Her research has attracted worldwide media attention, appearing in the New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters, UPI, Computerworld, CNN, BBC, MSNBC, and many other print, broadcast, and online news outlets. Melanie’s research has received several awards (Best Paper: IEEE PerCom ‘06, Best Paper: USENIX Lisa ‘06, NWO I/O Prize, VU Mediakomeet, ISOC Award finalist), and Melanie has also served as an invited expert for RFID security discussions with both the American and Dutch governments. In a past life, Melanie also worked on the Human Genome Project at the Whitehead Institute / MIT Center for Genome Research.
On february 27, in the “New frontiers” lecture Melanie Rieback will discuss the evolution of security with regards to RFIDs.
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Speaker Profile: Heewon Kim
January 23, 2008 - 21:30 — Sylvie Reinhard
Why we invited Heewon to LIFT
She is Korean, doing anthropological research on how Asians use certain technologies (social software, virtual worlds). Her knowledge of these local markets is invaluable to us. It helps us understand what is happening there. Asia is to many of us a mysterious place where we do not really know how to apprehend things because of language/cultural barriers.
What is Heewon going to talk about?
As a speaker in the glimpse of Asia track, Heewon Kim will address trends and in particular with respect to how teenagers use social software in Korea.
Official biography
Heewon Kim is a researcher at the Center for Youth and Cultural Studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, specializing in social software and online environments. Before working at Yonsei, she worked as a researcher for several companies such as Daum Communications and NCSOFT.
See Heewon's LIFT Profile to learn more about her enlightening work.
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