Follow this link to register for our conference Streams of Consciousness: Data, Cognition and Intelligent Devices that will take place at Warwick University on the 21st and 22nd of April this year. We are looking forward to our exciting line-up of speakers and programme!
Quantified self apps and wearables seek to construct a seamless loop of information feedback between bodies and machines. In this post, Will Davies wonders if that is really a substitute for the much older, more humanistic goal of mental commitment. One of the major selling points of the Jawbone UP, in distinction from many other…
Our first collaboratory entitled Dashboards: Functions, Features and Failures took place on the 16th of September at Goldsmiths College. The event brought together industry, third sector, government and academic participants to talk about dashboards. The day started with brief presentations by each of the participants showcasing a dashboard that they have found compelling as part of their professional…
Nate is going to give a talk entitled Decisions Everywhere (and Nowhere): The Taming of Cognition at the Decision Devices – Genealogies of Managerial Media Workshop organised by the HBK Braunschweig, Mediothek on the 27th of October. More details here.
Nate is going to give a talk on the 15th October entitled The Performance Platform: Governing Through Design which draws on one of our empirical case studies at the Government Digital Service. This is part of the workshop Controlling Environments which is being organised by the University of Oxford’s School of Geography, see here for more details.
Ana has written a piece on Discover Society about the techniques that are being publicly deployed to frame data as personal, read here.
Will has written a piece on data behaviourism and decision-making, read here!
As part of the work we are undertaking to examine the genealogy of the dashboard in relation to other technical devices of decision-making we came across the Xerox Star 8010. The launch of the Xerox Star 8010 in 1981 has been considered by many as a landmark in the history of computing. This is because a number of Xerox…
A two day workshop on interface method and criticism will take place at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) on the 24th and 25th of June. For more information and to register follow this link.
I attended the Constructing Financial Risk: Key Perspectives and Debates workshop which took place on the 13th April at CASS Business School. I was interested in learning different conceptualisations of risk as the workshop brought together experts in the subject working along different disciplines. A range of different interesting topics and relevant to Dashboards unfolded…