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Making Sense of Sensemaking

Designdialogues — Mon, 03 May 2010 02:53:07 +0000

Dr. Brenda Dervin presented a lecture and workshop at University of Toronto’s KMDI, kicking off the Making Sense Of series led by professor Peter Pennefather, KMDI outreach director. Peter and I hosted Brenda as befitting this first session in a series of workshops on “how we make sense” in several different domains. What’s new is . . . → Read More: Making Sense of Sensemaking

How do people REALLY make healthcare decisions?

Designdialogues — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:28:05 +0000

Thomas Goetz in Wired Magazine highlights Alexandra Carmichael and her decision tree for health decisions, along with 2 other scenarios. Alexandra is the founder of the CureTogether open source health research community. CureTogether is an innovative service that facilitates finding effective ways to address health concerns by active participation by people living with certain conditions, . . . → Read More: How do people REALLY make healthcare decisions?

Opportunity Overload

Designdialogues — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:25:04 +0000

Information overload has been with us since the dawn of electronic media. According to McLuhan’s theories (and Robert Logan’s recent enhancements to media theory), when we humans overextend a communications channel, we create a new one. We create one commensurate with the increased volume and complexity of content that our culture generates. When we overwhelmed . . . → Read More: Opportunity Overload

Cognitive impacts of Google’s info hegemony

Designdialogues — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:04:37 +0000

Referring to the prior post, the title was meant to provoke and reprieve the Atlantic article thesis. As with many technological aids to cognitive augmentation, the answer is “both” dumber and smarter.

Perhaps we are all still only in the first few years of a new media behavior, and like . . . → Read More: Cognitive impacts of Google’s info hegemony