Toward human-centered algorithm design

Human-Centered Computing: Toward a Human Revolution

C omputing is leading a revolution—everything we do is changing at a pace never experienced before in human history. Whether we talk about the pervasive, ubiquitous, mobile, grid, or even the social computing revolution, we can be sure that computing is impacting the way we interact with each other, the way we design and build our homes and cities, the way we learn, the way we communicate, the ...

Toward Quality-Centered Design of Groupware Architectures

Challenges in designing effective groupware include technical issues associated with concurrent and distributed work and social issues associated with supporting group activities. To address some of these problems, we have developed a quality-centered architectural design framework that links requirements analysis to architectural design decisions for groupware systems. The framework supports r...

Design Thinking = Human-Centered Design?

Towards Human-Centered Design

The consequence of taking customer orientation serious is to integrate them right at the heart of value creation – in new product design and development. The transitions in innovation management during the last years allow us exactly to that in a more resolute way. By democratizing knowledge and information the social media revolution strongly supported the dissemination of concepts such as ope...

Cognitive Orthoses: Toward Human-Centered AI

WINTER 2015 5 As George Bernard Shaw once observed, being slandered is better than being ignored. So maybe AI researchers should be happy about what’s been happening lately. After decades of pundits and philosophers arguing that AI is provably impossible, suddenly that argument has been replaced with the assertion that not only is it possible, but superhuman AI is so inevitable that it is the g...