Needed Rule for Symposia: The Time-Keeper Speaks Last (and has only the remaining time) 2020-03-25 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.[show the article]
Ethics between Medicine, Psychology, and Media and Computer Science 2020-03-23 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.[show the article]
Paying attention to a current crisis to learn for the future 2020-03-22 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"[show the article]
What do you want your children to receive? At least the same — or more? 2020-03-22 What do you want to leave your children — the same, or more?Image: Veronica Mars.[show the article]
Impotent Project Partners 2020-03-22 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"[show the article]
Ethics and User Centered Design / User Experience 2020-03-22 Some — originally — late night thoughts on ethics and user centered design or user experience.Image: MP from Reibert (1994)[show the article]
The Problem of Thinking Outside the Box 2020-03-22 Analyzing a failure to open a Japanese Puzzle Box -- due to looking for a too complicated solution.[show the article]
Exponential Growth, Time-Delayed Reactions, and other problems of human cognition 2020-03-22 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[show the article]