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Listen to the story {Play} In Carol Dweck’s seminal paper about the growth mindset, she suggested that people with such mindset can perform better and achieve significant outcomes, compared with those with a fixed mindset. “In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through …
Listen to the story {Play} A research team from MIT has developed a method to help people better understand when to trust an AI teammate, e.g. when diagnosing medical conditions. The method is based on an onboarding technique that guides humans to develop a more accurate understanding of the AI’s …
Listen to the story {Play} Are you thinking of enhancing the accessibility of your mobile application or like to create one for the target audience? If yes, then you should be aware of the mobile app UI-UX design trends that will skyrocket in 2022. It’s 2022 which is another year …
Listen to the story {Play} AR has arrived, in fits and starts. Ikea has an app that lets you see, on your phone, what a piece of furniture would look like in your home. Splunk has an app that helps field workers repair industrial systems, accessing performance metrics and repair …
Listen to the story {Play} VUCA, a term first described in 1985 by economists and university professors Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus, is often used to characterize the Digital Age. VUCA stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. In this world, things change at a pace that is difficult for …
Listen to the story {Play} Research from Penn Medicine and Deloitte Consulting LLP using a behaviorally designed gamification program to improve the level of exercise. The researchers found that competition was more engaging to increase the daily step counts than support or collaboration. The focus was directed on combining behavioural insights …
Listen to the story {Play} Let your senses guide you, embrace self-awareness/adaptability, collaboration/collegiality and empathy, in other words, use your emotional intelligence (EQ) as the key to success in your working life. These are the advice in Harvard Business Review by James Runde, the author of the book UNEQUALED, with …
Listen to the story {Play} Text or Video? Happy or Sad story? New research gives extraordinary results on how to optimize communication. Many will have the intuitive response that a video clip in general would do much more to persuade people than a text. But new research from MIT shows …
Listen to the story {Play} AI models of language work great at specific tasks. One example is predicting the next word when you are typing a text. However, the new generation of artificial intelligence is learning the more underlying meaning of the language, which is put in practice e.g. results …
Listen to the story {Play} What if you could use the same mechanisms to both improve employees work environment and customers’ experience of your business? By redesigning work experience with gamification mechanisms these features can be used for the customer’s experience too as well as building your brand. Basically, it …
