General Tips

Needed Rule for Symposia: The Time-Keeper Speaks Last (and has only the remaining time)

2020-03-25 | Reading time: 2 minutes

A common occurrence with scientific conferences — a speaker goes over her allotted time and no-one stops her. There could be a rather simple rules to stop this behavior.
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Ethics between Medicine, Psychology, and Media and Computer Science

2020-03-23 | Reading time: 2 minutes

What are the ethical requirements when you want to use participants to find something out? Well, that varies widely according to the domain your are in.
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Paying attention to a current crisis to learn for the future

2020-03-22 | Reading time: 1 minute

As bad as things might be at the moment ... if you survive it, you might learn to survive even worse situations.

Image: From the movie "Tremors"
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What do you want your children to receive? At least the same — or more?

2020-03-22 | Reading time: 2 minutes

What do you want to leave your children — the same, or more?

Image: Veronica Mars.
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Impotent Project Partners

2020-03-22 | Reading time: 1 minute

Probably a worst case scenario: You have a project partner who is impotent. Not regarding sex, but when it comes to his/her own organization. Even worse, that person is an eunuch — no amount of knowledge will help that person.

Image: Lord Varys from "Game of Thrones"
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Ethics and User Centered Design / User Experience

2020-03-22 | Reading time: 4 minutes

Some — originally — late night thoughts on ethics and user centered design or user experience.

Image: MP from Reibert (1994)
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Exponential Growth, Time-Delayed Reactions, and other problems of human cognition

2020-03-22 | Reading time: 6 minutes

The current Corona crisis shows at least two problems of human cognition: We are very bad when it comes to exponential growth and time-delayed reactions.

Image: Number of confirmed cases in Germany from zeit.de
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Apple’s Quality Program E1 — Exchange and Repair Extension Program

2020-02-23 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Even if your warranty is expired, for some problems Apple offers an extended program that covers your — otherwise expensive — Apple product repair.
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Don’t use shitty tools.

2020-02-20 | Reading time: 1 minute

Ever. Not even just this once, because you can't find your high-quality tools.
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Great Packaging

2020-02-16 | Reading time: Less than a minute

A nice detail in a recent delivery.
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