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Ask an Absurd Question

Destination Innovation

The project is described in this article in Nature.com. The genius Stephen Hawking asked a ridiculous question in 2009 when he sent out invitations. “A strong case can be made that the signals are generated by an intelligent form of life on Earth,” Sagan’s team wrote, rather cheekily. ’ He held the event.

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IDEA 2009 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

Innovation Parkour – IDEA 2009 View more documents from Normative. Regardless of your current project, the principles behind these examples (from disciplines like social sciences, psychology, neuroscience and cognitive science) can be applied universally. The techo-geeky thing is old news, Lisa applies some human thinking.

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IDEA 2009 - Day 1

Boxes and Arrows

Download Making Virtual Worlds: Games and the Human for a Digital Age (IDEA 2009 Presentation) View more documents from tmmalaby. Instead of relying on top-down and procedural decision-making, these organizations contrive complex and game-like systems that promise to generate legitimate decisions from the ground up.

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Cognitive Dissonance: Why it is so hard to accept two contradictory thoughts

Idea to Value

A 2014 fMRI study and a 2009 fMRI study found that dissonance was associated with increased neural activation in brain regions including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), anterior insula, inferior frontal gyrus, and precuneus. Interestingly, it seems like multiple parts of the brain are affected by processing cognitive dissonance.

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IDEA 2009: An Interview with Thomas Malaby

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2009 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. Because this project centered on the makers of Second Life, Linden Lab in San Francisco, to a certain extent the familiar form of face-to-face ethnographic participant observation and interviewing was possible.

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IDEA 2009: An Interview with Leisa Reichelt

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2009 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. As a designer for a prominent open source community project, what have you found to be the keys to success in working with open source developers, specifically on the usability and experience fronts?

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Authority Bias: Why we submit to the ideas and orders of others

Idea to Value

This experiment has recently been replicated in a 2009 study , showing the authority bias is still strong in today’s society. Many participants would continue to increase the shocks even when they themselves were becoming nervous about what they were doing.