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  • Read Your Heart Rate From Your Smartphone Camera: Dr. Phillip Alvelda from Brainworks on the Human Tech podcast

    Read Your Heart Rate From Your Smartphone Camera: Dr. Phillip Alvelda from Brainworks on the Human Tech podcast

    Dr. Phillip Alvelda has been working on AI projects for many years. His latest project with his new startup can measure medical vital signs, for example your heart rate, from looking at your face on your smartphone camera. In this podcast episode we talk with him about artificial intelligence, especially in healthcare, and privacy and…

  • Kristen Gallagher from Google asks “How do you know you are enough?” on the Human Tech Podcast

    Kristen Gallagher from Google asks “How do you know you are enough?” on the Human Tech Podcast

    We met Kristen Gallagher from Google in Scottsdale in June at the UXPA conference. She intrigued us by sitting at a lunch table with strangers and asking the table to opine on gender differences in answering the question: “How do you know if you are enough”. So we brought her on the podcast to talk…

  • Creating Decision Points With Partitioning

    Creating Decision Points With Partitioning

    How do you make large scary ideas seem small and not so scary, or the reverse — make small things seem more important? You use the behavioral economics idea of “partitioning”. It’s all explained in this episode of the Human Tech podcast.

  • The Art and Science of Doing Nothing

    The Art and Science of Doing Nothing

    I read an article in the New York Times today about “niksen” which is a Dutch word meaning doing nothing. The article talks about how doing nothing can be good for you. Ironically the article touts the idea of doing nothing so that you can be more productive. Which to me would mean you are…

  • The Science of Habits

    The Science of Habits

    Have you ever heard that it takes 60 days to form or change a habit? Well, that’s actually not true. I used to write about that being true, but new research and a mindshift change for me made me realize that habits can be very easy to create or change, IF you understand the science…

  • All About Journey Maps: The Latest Episode of the Human Tech podcast.

    All About Journey Maps: The Latest Episode of the Human Tech podcast.

    In this episode of HumanTech we talk about the what, why, how, of journey mapping, and even veer off a little to tackle the philosophy of creating UX documents.

  • When Rewards Work and When They Don’t

    When Rewards Work and When They Don’t

    In this episode of HumanTech we look at the science of rewards and discuss when and why rewards work and when and why they don’t.

  • Designing Usable Chatbots

    Designing Usable Chatbots

    Chatbots are popping up everywhere. In this episode of the Human Tech podcast we talk about what features make a chatbot usable, including whether it should have a name, the importance of consistent personality, and whether you want your chatbot to have a gender or be gender neutral.

  • The Science Of Creating New Year Resolutions That Actually Work

    Research shows that people tend to make big life decisions at the first of the year, which gives us New Year Resolutions. This is the right time for changes both large and small. (FYI,  If you are in a “9” year i.e., 19, 29, 39 and so on, research shows you are even more likely…

  • Calling all Conferences

    Calling all Conferences

    The Team W is compiling a list of some of the best User Experience, Human/Tech, Design, and Behavioral Science conferences coming up in 2019. If you have a favorite conference (or if you put on a conference) that you would like to be considered for the list please send: Conference Name2019 dates2019 locationWhat makes the…