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Alexander Thayer posted thisToday is National Administrative Professionals Day, and I'm sending a shoutout to Carla Person. She knows everything: the best conference rooms, her boss's computer password, everything. Carla never takes notes during meetings. Carrying a notebook makes you the designated notetaker in every meeting. Forget that crap. Carla keeps everything in her head, with a little help from her mobile phone and the secret app she developed with her work spouse. Spoiler alert: Carla is the main character in my new novel. I wrote the book around her because I think admins have the toughest job in the building. They're also the only people in the building who REALLY know what's going on. Curious to see how Carla deals with chauvinism, backstabbers, and a boss who loves to talk about "low hanging fruit?" Link in comments. #AdminProfessionalsDay #ExecutiveAssistants #AdminLife #DebutNovel #Satire
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Alexander Thayer posted thisMy first novel, Low Hanging Fruit, is out today! It's a workplace satire about surviving corporate tech culture. For everyone who pre-ordered, shared a post, or sent a kind message over the last two weeks: Thank you so much! I hope you love the book. If you're thinking of buying Low Hanging Fruit, the ebook is $3.99 and the hardcover is $19.99 (link in comments). If you live outside the US, search Amazon in your country for "low hanging fruit thayer" and you should find the book. And finally, the paperback will be available by April 22. #DebutAuthor #WorkplaceHumor #CorporateSatire #NowAvailable
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Alexander Thayer posted thisWhen I started working at Meta last November, I brought a lot of assumptions with me. Move fast, break some stuff, etc. After my first five months, it’s clear to me that I am able to do my best work at Meta. My experience so far exceeds the expectations I brought to the role, so I thought it would be worth reflecting on the reasons why. Prior to joining Meta, I spent 4+ years leading the UX research team for Google's Retail Ads business. Before that, I was the Head of Research for Amazon Search. When I reflect on those roles, I think about the relative pace of the work at Meta. It’s more intense than I imagined, and I mean that as a compliment. I appreciate the mindset about getting work done, which I’d summarize as the difference between “I have an idea” and “Check out this thing I built.” Ideas proceed from chat messages to prototypes to experiments, often before lunch. AI tools empower everyone to build and share. As a result, I find the conversations much richer compared to the debates that play out in documents or slide decks. After being a remote employee for several years, working in person feels revelatory to me. I remain a staunch advocate of remote work, but I can’t deny the power of physically sitting with my stakeholders and partners. I feel like I’m part of something tangible, partly because the people at Meta are truly impressive. “Be direct and respect your colleagues” is one of the core values and people actually behave this way. Feedback is genuinely treated as a gift because everyone wants to make better products. Speaking of values, I was joking about moving fast and breaking things. But “move fast” remains a core value, though I appreciate this bit: “It’s about moving fast in one direction together — as a company and as individuals.” I see this behavior in action every day. I am also seeing how AI can accelerate velocity and our ability to move in the same direction together. Finally, I get to work on amazing things. There’s a recent article from Analytics at Meta that captures it well (check the comments for the link). In that article, you will learn more about the products I cover, but you will also see the themes I have discussed here. Phrases like “Within weeks, there were hundreds of weekly active users” and “treat your earliest users as co-builders, not beta testers” reflect the pace and quality of the work I’m doing these days. It’s invigorating and I’m grateful for the opportunity. #Meta #AI #UXResearch #Leadership
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Alexander Thayer shared this"I am looking forward to writing a review on Amazon as much as I am looking forward to the next installment. Congratulations! You have written a winner." This is from Matt F., one of the advance readers of my debut novel, "Low Hanging Fruit." I appreciated Matt's feedback because I found it reassuring. for me, the toughest part of releasing an original work of fiction is the worry. What will people think? What if nobody reads my work? I wrote this book in private, and now it's not private anymore. I mean, that's the point, but it's still scary. That said, hearing that someone connected with the story is why I wrote this book. Matt had another quote: For him, the book described "the trusted friends and work spouses that kept you sane and out of Stockholm syndrome." That's exactly what I was going for: a story about surviving corporate life, told with humor and honesty. I know not every reader will have the same reaction. But I'm glad Matt picked up on the central themes I wanted to convey. Maybe the book will resonate with you too! "Low Hanging Fruit" comes out April 15. Pre-order the ebook at https://alexthayer.com. #debutnovel #booklaunch #workplaceculture #corporatecultureLow Hanging Fruit - A Workplace Comedy Novel by Alex ThayerLow Hanging Fruit - A Workplace Comedy Novel by Alex Thayer
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Alexander Thayer shared this"Know your audience" is the first rule of product development, marketing, design, and writing. I learned the power of knowing my audience when my classmates asked me to describe their gruesome deaths. In 6th grade, I wrote a story called "The Uninvited Guest." It was about a house party at a mansion, and the guest list included a mix of celebrities and my school friends. I forget which celebrities were in the story, though I do remember Arnold Schwarzenegger was in the mix. The plot was a classic horror trope: mysterious, grisly deaths in the basement. Everyone was having a great time at the party until the guests started disappearing, one by one. The twist? A giant, mutant antlion was living in the basement, slowly picking off the partygoers. If you haven't searched for "antlion" lately, imagine an insect that digs a pit and waits for ants to fall in. Terrifying, and very appealing to my overactive pre-teen imagination. As more of the students in my class found out about my story, they wanted me to add them into the narrative. Importantly, they wanted me to come up with unique and creative ways for them to die in the antlion pit. Some of them offered suggestions about how the antlion might kill them, which I promised to take under advisement. My revisions focused on including more party guests and finding unique ways for all of them to die until, eventually, a couple of my best friends vanquished the antlion. Or so they thought, since I wanted to write a sequel. Eventually, it was time for me to read my story out loud in front of my 6th grade class. The anticipation was palpable since I refused to tell anyone how they would die. As I read the story and revealed each horrific end, the class would cheer for the newly-deceased student. Finally, I wrapped up the story and received a lot of enthusiastic applause. Our teacher was very kind: She looked past the gratuitous elements of my work and complimented me on the narrative structure, if I recall correctly. I drifted away from writing fiction not long after that, turning toward academic and technical writing. After all my time working in the tech industry, I'm excited to return to writing fiction. Sadly, nobody gets eaten by an antlion in my new book. At least, not in the first one. Pre-order the ebook at https://alexthayer.com.Low Hanging Fruit - A Workplace Comedy Novel by Alex ThayerLow Hanging Fruit - A Workplace Comedy Novel by Alex Thayer
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Alexander Thayer shared thisAfter finding out that I'm publishing my debut novel, people have been asking when I started writing. The truth is, I tried to write my first book when I was eight years old. It didn't go well. I remember staring at the monitor of my parents' Epson computer, thinking I could just sit down and write a novel. For some reason, I wanted to tell the story of a salesman named Waxquest Casanova who sold tins of mustache wax. After a few sentences, I gave up. Over the years, I have flirted with writing fiction. But it was only a few years ago that I solved the essential challenge that had plagued me since I was a kid. What would actually be worth writing about? That's why I'm excited about Low Hanging Fruit. Although the main character is fiction, I think of Carla as a real person. I guess that's why I named her "Carla Person." The company, Endayze, is fictional. But anyone who has survived a reorg, sat through a mandatory team-building exercise, or watched a good colleague quietly disappear will recognize something in these pages. The book comes out April 15 in paperback, hardcover, and eBook formats. Check out alexthayer.com and sign up for email updates there, if you're so inclined! #debutnovel #booklaunch #TechIndustryLow Hanging Fruit - A Workplace Comedy Novel by Alex ThayerLow Hanging Fruit - A Workplace Comedy Novel by Alex Thayer
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Alexander Thayer shared thisThis post isn’t about AI. It’s about my first ASIN, which is a nerdy way to announce my debut fiction novel, Low Hanging Fruit. The book follows Carla Person, an executive administrative assistance who just started her dream job at Endayze, the world's most prestigious tech company. If you’re feeling a little tired of working in (or hearing about) the tech industry, you can live vicariously through Carla's struggles and successes in this book. The cover art makes sense once you've completed the mandatory swan safety training. The Kindle ebook is $3.99 and available for pre-order now at my website: https://www.alexthayer.com. After 24 hours my book is already in good company. Right now it’s ranked #29 on the list of Amazon Best Sellers in the Literary Satire category. Adjacent authors include Chuck Palahniuk, Ling Ma, and Kurt Vonnegut. That’s pretty cool, although I’m wondering when the algorithm will change its mind about me. Paperback and hardcover will be available soon too!
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Alexander Thayer posted thisI'm seeing a lot of posts about AI tool integrations. I'll admit, it's exciting: "I used [new AI tool x] to create a version of [idea] and send it directly to [legacy tool y] so I could [achieve goal z]." What's much more exciting to me is something like: "I talked through my idea with Claude Code and it built the app." Or: "I was thinking about something during my commute and by the time I got home, I had made a third version of the prototype." As the human in the workflow, I'm the one with the goal. AI tools such as Claude Code give me the ability to ignore the intermediate tooling entirely. This is amazing, especially if I was never particularly skilled with those tools in the past. Education used to be about "just in case" learning, where you read a bunch of books and memorized a ton of information just in case you needed it. Eventually, "just in time" and project-based learning brought the perspective that you don't need to try and know everything. You just need to know enough so you can achieve your goal. This latest wave of AI tooling represents another evolution, a twist on Nike's classic slogan: "just do it for me." I added "for me" because the human on the loop brings the goal to the human/AI collaboration.
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Alexander Thayer posted thisWhen you think about the current state of AI tools, are you "Tuesday afternoon excited?" Or are you "Saturday/Sunday excited?" Years ago, I asked one of my colleagues this question. He had an idea for something and he was passionate about it. So I asked how passionate he felt. Was he willing to spend some time that afternoon between microkitchen visits? Or was he so passionate that he wouldn't be able to sleep that weekend? I thought about this anecdote again because I'm excited about what I can do with AI. I'm changing my entire workflow around AI tools and that's Saturday/Sunday exciting to me. I prefer accessing AI from a command line interface (CLI), which feels like the days of DOS and text adventures. Truly, it's like I'm playing Zork or Alter Ego (the latter is worth your time even today - https://lnkd.in/gF_454cX). That's wild.
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Alexander Thayer reacted on thisAlexander Thayer reacted on thisThanks to John Cook at GeekWire for this one. Proud of what the whole team at Flying Fish Partners has built and grateful to be part of David Silver and Ineffable Intelligence's journey.How a Seattle VC firm broke into the $1.1B seed round for a DeepMind legend’s superintelligence startupHow a Seattle VC firm broke into the $1.1B seed round for a DeepMind legend’s superintelligence startup
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Alexander Thayer liked thisAlexander Thayer liked thisLLMs have their place, but they are not the path to superintelligence. We've long been believers in reinforcement learning and have backed many great startups using RL at their core, so when we made first contact with David Silver, the brain behind AlphaGo and AlphaZero at Google DeepMind, we didn't hesitate. Flying Fish Partners wrote the first check into Ineffable Intelligence, building a "superlearner" that discovers all knowledge from its own experience, with no reliance on human data. This is just the beginning. WIRED article below 👇
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Alexander Thayer liked thisAlexander Thayer liked thisAfter nearly 13 years, today marks my last Day 1 at Amazon. I’ve had the opportunity to work across AWS, Search, Devices, and Advertising—launching Amazon Elasticsearch Service, improving the Search cost curve and customer experience with features like View in Your Room and StyleSnap, and helping scale businesses including FireTV and Devices Advertising. What I’ll take with me most is the people. I’ve been incredibly fortunate to work alongside passionate, driven colleagues who challenged ideas, raised the bar, and made even the toughest problems energizing to solve. The customer obsession, high standards, and thoughtful debates have shaped how I think and lead. Grateful for this chapter and everything we built together—and excited for what’s ahead. P.S. Never say never… I might be back one day for that purple badge 💜
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Alexander Thayer liked thisAlexander Thayer liked thisThe Division of Design is hiring! We are looking for a Lecturer, Full-Time Temporary - Interaction Design. For position details and application via Interfolio go to https://lnkd.in/dDEpb29J
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Alexander Thayer liked thisCongratulations to Andrei Papancea and the whole team at NLX! Flying Fish Partners is proud to have supported you from the beginning and could not be happier for everyone!Alexander Thayer liked thisWhat if your enterprise could deploy AI-powered customer experiences in weeks, not months? https://go.aws/4d5ZlrB That's exactly what's now possible with Amazon Connect's acquisition of NLX: a no-code canvas that puts design control in the hands of your business teams, not your engineering backlog. United Airlines went live in three months instead of twelve. A global retailer deployed in six weeks instead of six months. This is the new baseline, and the question is whether you can afford to move any slower.
Experience & Education
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Advisory Board Member
University of California, Santa Cruz
- Present 2 years 10 months
Education
I help advance the mission of the board: foster industry partnerships, offer access to underrepresented populations in HCI (and Games, the other program in CM), enhance curriculum relevance to better prepare our students for exciting careers in computational media, and explore joint research opportunities.
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Troop Leader
Girl Scouts of Northern California
- 3 years 10 months
Children
Co-led a troop of Girl Scouts as they earned badges like Home Scientist, Dancer, and more...
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Troop Volunteer
Girl Scout Troop of Northern CA
- 3 years
Children
Volunteered with a Girl Scout troop.
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Volunteer
Intel Corporation
- 1 year 7 months
Children
Put my Sesame Street characterization skills to work by reading (with puppets) at local elementary schools.
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Technical Consulting
Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center
- 5 years 5 months
Human Rights
Did my best to help out in every way possible with the amazing team at WSHERC, which often meant IT support and archiving discussions.
Publications
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Theme Issue on Educational Interfaces, Software, and Technology (EIST)
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
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Recalibrating the Ratio: Enacting Accountability in Intimate Relationships Using Shared Calendars
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
ABSTRACT: This study enriches the understanding of relationship work in the context of calendar sharing by examining how people negotiate and enact accountability in their intimate relationships with and around their shared calendars. We conducted 13 semi-structured interviews as part of a
qualitative study of Google Calendar users. Our research discovered how participants develop understandings of how close friends and significant others structure their time using shared calendars, as well…ABSTRACT: This study enriches the understanding of relationship work in the context of calendar sharing by examining how people negotiate and enact accountability in their intimate relationships with and around their shared calendars. We conducted 13 semi-structured interviews as part of a
qualitative study of Google Calendar users. Our research discovered how participants develop understandings of how close friends and significant others structure their time using shared calendars, as well as how people negotiate and enact accounts within and beyond their intimate relationships. Our findings indicate ways in which Online Calendar Systems (OCS) can be better designed to more
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Understanding University Students' Use of Tools and Artifacts in Support of Collaborative Project Work
See publicationWhen designers collaborate on projects, they use an assortment of tools to generate a variety of
artifacts that help them complete their work. However, it remains unclear how university
students use tools and create artifacts as they collaborate on design projects. More importantly, it
is unclear how these students make tool-related decisions throughout their design projects, as
well as how the different types of work they perform influence their overall collaborative
process…When designers collaborate on projects, they use an assortment of tools to generate a variety of
artifacts that help them complete their work. However, it remains unclear how university
students use tools and create artifacts as they collaborate on design projects. More importantly, it
is unclear how these students make tool-related decisions throughout their design projects, as
well as how the different types of work they perform influence their overall collaborative
process. Developing a greater understanding of these phenomena will help members of the
computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) community better understand the complex
structure of collaborative project work, as well as the role of tools and artifacts in both
structuring and being structured by students’ coordination practices. The current research project
explores university students’ use of tools and artifacts for collaborative project work by
observing the work practices and decision-making processes of the students in an advanced
interaction design class throughout an entire academic quarter. These students performed task
work, articulation work, and metawork as they consulted their personal toolbelts, decided which
tools to use, and then developed artifacts using those tools, all in order to create the necessary
deliverables and final design products for the course they were taking. Students’ decisions about
how to structure their task work influence their choice of tools, and those choices in turn
influence their processes of artifact creation as well as their performance of articulation work and
metawork. This dissertation documents the reflexive nature of that relationship among students’
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I Love You, Let’s Share Calendars: Calendar Sharing as Relationship Work
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW '12)
While there has been substantial research into the use of online calendar systems (OCS) within organizations and families with children, no research focuses on adults without children. In our study, we focus on these OCS users' practices of calendar sharing as relationship work, the continually negotiated practice of managing friendships and intimacy. We conducted semi-structured interviews as part of a qualitative user study of Google Calendar users. We report the calendar sharing behaviors…
While there has been substantial research into the use of online calendar systems (OCS) within organizations and families with children, no research focuses on adults without children. In our study, we focus on these OCS users' practices of calendar sharing as relationship work, the continually negotiated practice of managing friendships and intimacy. We conducted semi-structured interviews as part of a qualitative user study of Google Calendar users. We report the calendar sharing behaviors and strategies of our participants, who maintain multiple calendars for different purposes and with different users, communicating factual and emotional information through their calendar events. We contribute new knowledge by discussing four strategies derived from our participants' calendar sharing and relationship work activities.
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The Imposition and Superimposition of Digital Reading Technology: The Academic Potential of E-readers.
Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '11)
Abstract: While rapid growth in e-reader use is receiving much attention in industry and academia, the use of e-readers for academic reading remains understudied. This qualitative study investigates how graduate students accomplish their academic reading and integrate an e-reader into their reading practices. Our work represents the first long-term study of e-reading on a production device (the Amazon Kindle DX). In this paper we contribute new knowledge to the discussion of the academic…
Abstract: While rapid growth in e-reader use is receiving much attention in industry and academia, the use of e-readers for academic reading remains understudied. This qualitative study investigates how graduate students accomplish their academic reading and integrate an e-reader into their reading practices. Our work represents the first long-term study of e-reading on a production device (the Amazon Kindle DX). In this paper we contribute new knowledge to the discussion of the academic potential of e-readers by analyzing the meta-level relationship between reading tasks and associated reading techniques, students’ compensation for the limitations of e-readers, and the hindrance of the human ability to construct cognitive maps of texts when using e-readers.
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Research-driven stakeholders in cyberinfrastructure use and development
Proceedings of the 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2010)
Research has shown that failing to recognize and understand organizational subgroups, their cultures, and their reward systems can result in a failure of system adoption. Infrastructure building projects for science are complex forms of collaborative work that involve many subgroups. As part of an ongoing research project, we use ethnographic methods to explore the roles, categories, and relationships that are sometimes taken for granted in cyberinfrastructure research and development. We…
Research has shown that failing to recognize and understand organizational subgroups, their cultures, and their reward systems can result in a failure of system adoption. Infrastructure building projects for science are complex forms of collaborative work that involve many subgroups. As part of an ongoing research project, we use ethnographic methods to explore the roles, categories, and relationships that are sometimes taken for granted in cyberinfrastructure research and development. We investigate the difficulty of modeling stakeholders in the development of research-driven, large-scale scientific research and describe the importance of identifying stakeholders according to research questions in addition to organizations or workplaces.
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Achieving Design Enlightenment: Defining a New User Experience Measurement Framework
Proceedings of IEEE International Professional Communication Conference
By using self-reported metrics, user researchers, designers, and usability experts can pinpoint the aspects of a user experience that require modification during, rather than after, the development process. Comparative data are potentially the most valuable to designers and researchers because these data provide insight into users' perceptions and expectations about specific aspects of the user experience. In this paper we extend the theory of expectation disconfirmation and suggest that, by…
By using self-reported metrics, user researchers, designers, and usability experts can pinpoint the aspects of a user experience that require modification during, rather than after, the development process. Comparative data are potentially the most valuable to designers and researchers because these data provide insight into users' perceptions and expectations about specific aspects of the user experience. In this paper we extend the theory of expectation disconfirmation and suggest that, by collecting comparative data on users' perceptions and experiences as they relate to the specific experience goals of a project, project teams can make the right choices and trade-offs when it comes to designing the user experience. We also suggest specific methodologies from the field of education research that can inform project teams' decisions at the outset of product design projects.
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Analyzing sociocultural perspectives on violence in digital games
ACM Digital Library
See publicationThis article reports the results of a content analysis that tested whether a significant difference in attitude toward violent digital games occurred in the news media as a result of the Columbine school shootings. This article lists attitudinal information about violent game content for more than 30 worldwide news sources, as well as the most frequently mentioned people, institutions, and digital games mentioned by these sources. A one-way ANOVA of authors' attitudes toward violent digital…
This article reports the results of a content analysis that tested whether a significant difference in attitude toward violent digital games occurred in the news media as a result of the Columbine school shootings. This article lists attitudinal information about violent game content for more than 30 worldwide news sources, as well as the most frequently mentioned people, institutions, and digital games mentioned by these sources. A one-way ANOVA of authors' attitudes toward violent digital games prior to and after April 20, 1999, as well as ANOVAs testing geographic location, newspaper, and article type, showed no significant attitudinal difference toward violent digital games before and after the Columbine incident. Four cultural themes that relate to the control of violent digital games are also analyzed.
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Offshoring, outsourcing, and the future of technical communication
Proceedings of IEEE International Professional Communication Conference
See publicationIn the United States information technology industry, the two words that scare employees the most are "offshore outsourcing. "Although the IT industry is undergoing the biggest change as a result of offshore outsourcing, the technical communication industry is beginning to feel the impact of offshore outsourcing as well. However, offshoring English language content development is much more difficult than offshoring call centers or computer programming. This paper presents the results of an…
In the United States information technology industry, the two words that scare employees the most are "offshore outsourcing. "Although the IT industry is undergoing the biggest change as a result of offshore outsourcing, the technical communication industry is beginning to feel the impact of offshore outsourcing as well. However, offshoring English language content development is much more difficult than offshoring call centers or computer programming. This paper presents the results of an interview with the president and COO of Sakson & Taylor, Inc., a corporate leader in the areas of technical communication staffing and consulting. The goal of the interview was to gain first-hand, corporate insight into the future of offshore outsourcing and how it could impact technical communicators, their careers, and their everyday job responsibilities.
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Tone formality in English-language University Web sites around the world
Proceedings of IEEE International Professional Communication Conference
Patents
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Using medical test results for medical supply
Issued US WO2020256713A1
Examples are described herein for using medical test results to trigger routine for medical supply replenishment. In various examples, based on a result of a medical test administered to a subject at a first medical facility, it may be determined that the subject has an exogenous medical condition. In response to determining that the subject has the exogenous medical condition, a message may be transmitted over a computer network from a computing device associated with the first medical…
Examples are described herein for using medical test results to trigger routine for medical supply replenishment. In various examples, based on a result of a medical test administered to a subject at a first medical facility, it may be determined that the subject has an exogenous medical condition. In response to determining that the subject has the exogenous medical condition, a message may be transmitted over a computer network from a computing device associated with the first medical facility to a remote computing device associated with a second medical facility. The message may trigger the remote computing device to initiate a routine to replenish medical supplies associated with the exogenous medical condition at the second medical facility.
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Interlockable devices
Issued US WO2020214188A1
Examples of devices are described herein. In some examples, a device may include a plurality of electronic elements. In some examples, each of the electronic elements is mechanically interlockable to another of the electronic elements. In some examples, each of the electronic elements is to control a lock state based on a broadcast signal to modify a shape of the device to a predetermined target shape.
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Geometry-aware interactive design
Issued US WO2020112078A1
Examples of a system to create a product/object design in real time based on a user’s sketch input is described herein. In some approaches, adversarial networks are used to generate images from detailed sketches. However, in these approaches, detailed sketches are needed to be completely done to generate the desired image. Further, in these approaches the process of generating a desired image is static instead of dynamic. In the examples described herein, a system may extract geometric…
Examples of a system to create a product/object design in real time based on a user’s sketch input is described herein. In some approaches, adversarial networks are used to generate images from detailed sketches. However, in these approaches, detailed sketches are needed to be completely done to generate the desired image. Further, in these approaches the process of generating a desired image is static instead of dynamic. In the examples described herein, a system may extract geometric information from an input image. A generator network may generate an output image based on the extracted geometric information, a latent space vector of an input example, and a sketch input. In some examples, a low-dimensional latent space vector may be selected starting with an input image on a sketch interface. The latent space vector may be concatenated with a geometric abstraction of the input image to generate the desired output image. Further, the system may measure a plurality of loss functions (e.g., shape and color constraints, realness loss, distance regulation loss and local identity loss) to determine the resemblance of the sketch with the output image. The system presents an intuitive and accessible sketching-based interface for realistic design results.
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Detected media printing
Issued US WO2020068077A1
An example communication device includes a camera to detect media. A processor is to link the detected media with a stored version of the detected media in a database. The processor is to instruct a printing device associated with a remote device to output a hardcopy of the stored version of the detected media.
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Bios access
Issued US WO2020068102A1
Examples associated with BIOS access are described. One example device includes receiving data associated with a basic input/output system (BIOS) access request. The data may be received by a print device. The access request may be for a computing device. The method also includes printing a set of instructions for accessing the BIOS of the computing device.
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Personal media content retrieval
Issued US WO2020068108A1
A non-transitory media having machine-readable instructions stored thereon is provided. The instructions include a context analyzer to determine context data based on information shared between participants as part of a communications session. An emotion detector detects an emotional state of a given participant of the communications session and generates a media request based on the detected emotional state and the context data, wherein a representation of personal media content is provided to…
A non-transitory media having machine-readable instructions stored thereon is provided. The instructions include a context analyzer to determine context data based on information shared between participants as part of a communications session. An emotion detector detects an emotional state of a given participant of the communications session and generates a media request based on the detected emotional state and the context data, wherein a representation of personal media content is provided to at least one of the participants based on the media request.
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Enhanced reality system with haptic retargeting
Issued US WO2019059938A1
An enhanced reality system, in an example, includes an input device, the input device including a first arm and a second arm configured to be held together by a user; a sensor to sense, at least, a relative position of at least a portion of the first and second arms; wherein sensing, at least, the relative position of the first and second arms comprises a haptic retargeting process that simulates a touching of ends of the first and second arms to the outer surface of a virtual object presented…
An enhanced reality system, in an example, includes an input device, the input device including a first arm and a second arm configured to be held together by a user; a sensor to sense, at least, a relative position of at least a portion of the first and second arms; wherein sensing, at least, the relative position of the first and second arms comprises a haptic retargeting process that simulates a touching of ends of the first and second arms to the outer surface of a virtual object presented in the enhanced reality environment.
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Authenticate a first and second user
Filed US WO2019045678A1
See patentExamples disclosed herein relate to authenticating a first and second user. For example, a processor may authenticate a first user to access at least one of a device and a location and identify a second user located within an authentication zone. The processor may trigger an authentication process for the second user based on the identification and output information indicating whether the second user is authenticated.
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Virtual reality headset stands
Filed US WO2019013808A1
An example virtual reality headset stand includes a base, a stem, and a docking station. The stem, which extends from the base, is angled toward the base. The docking station, which is attached to the stem, is angled away from the stem. The docking station is contoured to hold a virtual reality headset. The docking station includes a lip connected to the stem, a body portion connected to the lip, and a clip connected to the body portion.
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Somatosensory feedback system
Filed US WO2018136102A1
A somatosensory feedback system may include at least one somatosensory feedback device to, when actuated, invoke a sensation in a user. The somatosensory feedback system may instruct the at least one somatosensory feedback device to actuate to indicate a passage of time.
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Internet-based application program interface (API) documentation interface
Issued US 06405216
Honors & Awards
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Best Demo Award, UbiComp '17
UbiComp/ACM
Baris Unver was my intern in 2016 at HP.
"Unver worked with advisor Professor Lana Yarosh and Director and Chief Experience Architect of Immersive Experiences Lab at HP Inc. Alexander Thayer on their projector-camera (pro-cam) system research. Pro-cams are a communication systems that project captured images onto a local surface that allows for users to share a workspace remotely. For example, two users using pro-cam systems from separate locations could use the virtually shared…Baris Unver was my intern in 2016 at HP.
"Unver worked with advisor Professor Lana Yarosh and Director and Chief Experience Architect of Immersive Experiences Lab at HP Inc. Alexander Thayer on their projector-camera (pro-cam) system research. Pro-cams are a communication systems that project captured images onto a local surface that allows for users to share a workspace remotely. For example, two users using pro-cam systems from separate locations could use the virtually shared desktop to work on on anything from a board game to a homework assignment—or anything that can be displayed in an augmented reality environment. Many studies have shown the benefits of these systems, but where most show how both users work with identical devices, for instance two desktop pro-cam systems, Unver and his team investigated ways to use similar systems across device systems—pairing a mobile phone to a desktop system or a tablet to a mobile phone, for example."
More info - https://www.cs.umn.edu/news/cse-phd-student-baris-unver-and-prof-lana-yarosh-receive-best-demo-award-ubicomp-17-hp-labs -
Intel Peer Recognition Award
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Intel Peer Recognition Award
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Driving alignment of objectives across business units; recognized by peers in a different BU
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Intel Peer Recognition Award
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Google User Experience Research Citizenship Award (Q4 2012)
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