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A new chapter – a PhD in Cognitive Cybersecurity at UTS

Ok.  New Year.  New me.  I’ve enrolled, and been accepted, to do a PhD at UTS.  This is my third week and it is VERY exciting!  I’m working with some of my old colleagues from the Data61 days, within the Human Performance Analytics team, which is part of the Data Science Institute.  Cool stuff.  Also… […]

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Subjective ratings of frequency and importance.

Some interaction / Information Architecture design minutiae today.  How closely do user ratings of the importance of a feature equate to ratings of frequency of use of that feature? So I was recently asked to validate the IA of an existing product and then fold these findings into the design process for a new product.  […]

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We’re all just rats in cages – and Cory Doctorow knows it

I just stumbled across this piece of Cory Doctorow and it’s an excellent read! And important for anyone interested in the sneaky ways the incredibly adaptive forces of un-controlled capitalism exploit our cognitive weaknesses to influence our behaviour. Doctorow is one of the few people I know who really understand (and can express) the awe-inspiring […]

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And… My paper is now available. Awesome!

So back in the Summer of 2011/2012 I carried out a research project into Cognitive Load measurement at NICTA (the Australian Centre for ICT research excellence) a truly amazing place.   I wrote about the project in some detail in a previous post here.  The result was a paper that was presented at INTERACT 2013, and […]

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