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Author: Bill Kraus

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Context in UX – What It Is, What It Isn’t, and Why It’s Important

Our location is relentlessly tracked by our mobile devices. Our online transactions – both business and social – are recorded and stored in the cloud. And reams of biometric data will soon be collected by wearables.  Mining this contextual data offers a significant opportunity to enhance the state of human computer interaction. But this begs… Read More

Posted 9 years ago 1 September 2014
By Bill Kraus
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Personal Assistant or Creepy Stalker? The Rise of Cognitive Computing

I just got back to my hotel room after attending the first of a two day Cognitive Computing Forum, a conference running in parallel to the Semantic Technology (SemTech) Business Conference and the NoSQL Conference here in San Jose. Although the forum attracts less attendees and has only a single track, I cannot remember attending… Read More

Posted 9 years ago 20 August 2014
By Bill Kraus
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Quadcopters and the Internet of Things

Editor’s note: Hey a new author! Here’s the first one, of many I hope, from Bill Kraus, who joined us back in February. Enjoy. One of the best aspects of working in the emerging technologies team here in Oracle’s UX Apps group is that we have the opportunity to ‘play’ with new technology. This isn’t just idle dawdling,… Read More

Posted 9 years ago 17 August 2014
By Bill Kraus
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