John E. Karlin, a researcher at Bell Labs, studied ways to make the telephone easier to use. (Image from the NY Times, courtesy of Alcatel-Lucent USA)
John Karlin, an early researcher in behavioral science at Bell Labs, was considered the father of human factors engineering. The NY Times obituary (John E. Karlin, Who Led the Way to All-Digit Dialing, Dies at 94) is a fascinating history of usability research.
While this is not directly related to usability, and is already almost two years old, I think it’s an important thing for an informed digital citizen to be aware of.
The Filter Bubble is about “what the internet is hiding from you,” and how there is no unbiased search in the age of algorithms.
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For more information, see Pariser’s website, thefilterbubble.com, and book of the same name.
This is for the teams working on JumpShot, but maybe amusing to everyone.
I thought that the choice of the word “sedation” for what they want to do to the user’s PC was curious. It reminded me of a song and a video by the punk band The Ramones called “I Wanna Be Sedated:”
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And then a few years ago, there was this outrageous cover version of that song by the elderly rock and rollers, Young @ Heart:
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