[Book] Designing digital products for kids
https://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484262894 Deliver User Experiences That Delight Kids, Parents, and Teachers Rubens Cantuni is an Italian digital product designer with 15 years of experience across two continents. Winner of an Emmy Award in the “Outstanding Interactive” category, a Webby Award nomination, and several Parents’ Choice Awards and Teachers’ Choice Awards with...
Tools & techniques for brining machine learning research to production
PyData Chicago February Meetup youtube, https://github.com/dconathan/mtg-search As a data scientist on a machine learning research team, I often find myself treading the line between the wild west of research and the unrelenting demands of production-quality software development. Because of the nature of machine learning research, traditional software development methodologies don’t...
People accurately predict the transition probabilities between actions
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abd4995 Social life is a complex dance. To coordinate gracefully with one’s partners, one must predict their actions. Here, we investigated how people predict others’ actions. We hypothesized that people can accurately predict others’ future actions based on knowledge of their current actions, coupled with knowledge of action transitions. To...
Depressed mood, a better predictor of social-distancing compliance and candidate for intervention compared to working memory capacity
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/8/e2024017118 Xie et al. (1) report that a higher working memory (WM) capacity increases social-distancing compliance, even after accounting for relevant covariates (e.g., mood and personality traits), and that this effect is partly mediated by a facilitating benefit-over-cost analysis about social-distancing practice. In light of these findings, the authors suggest...
How educational are “educational” apps for young children? App store content analysis using the Four Pillars of Learning framework
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17482798.2021.1882516 https://kathyhirshpasek.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2021/03/How-educational-are-educational-apps-for-young-children-App-store-content-analysis-using-the-Four-Pillars-of-Learning-framework.pdf This study aimed to operationalize Hirsh-Pasek, Zosh, and colleagues’ Four Pillars of Learning (2015) into a reliable coding scheme Pillar 1: Active Learning, Pillar 2: Engagement in the Learning Process, Pillar 3: Meaningful Learning, Pillar 4: Social Interaction), describe the educational quality of commercially available apps, and examine...
Follow my lead: Assertive cheap talk and the gender gap
https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.2020.3837 A person’s success often depends on whether others believe what they say. Growing evidence suggests that people are less likely to believe statements made by women rather than men. We consider whether assertive cheap talk, an important and widely used tool for increasing credibility, is a mechanism for this...
Video improves learning in higher education: a systematic review
https://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/default+domain/XK5QXBX6TVJFARNHFBZC/full Universities around the world are incorporating online learning, often relying on videos (asynchronous multimedia). We systematically reviewed the effects of video on learning in higher education. We searched five databases using 27 keywords to find randomized trials that measured the learning effects of video among college students. We conducted...
Shared partisanship dramatically increases social tie formation in a Twitter field experiment
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/7/e2022761118.abstract Americans are much more likely to be socially connected to copartisans, both in daily life and on social media. However, this observation does not necessarily mean that shared partisanship per se drives social tie formation, because partisanship is confounded with many other factors. Here, we test the causal effect...
Slow lies: Response delays promote perceptions of insincerity
https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000250 Evaluating other people’s sincerity is a ubiquitous and important part of social interactions. Fourteen experiments (total N = 7,565; 10 preregistered; 11 in the main article, three in the online supplemental materials; with U.S. American and British members of the public, and French students) show that response speed is...
Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/6/e2008389118 Both liberals and conservatives believe that using facts in political discussions helps to foster mutual respect, but 15 studies—across multiple methodologies and issues—show that these beliefs are mistaken. Political opponents respect moral beliefs more when they are supported by personal experiences, not facts. The respect-inducing power of personal experiences...
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