Protos

Day one at persuasive technology
The Persuasive Technology 2008 conference is really promising and there have been some really high quality speakers. There is a really nice atmosphere =)

The first keynote by Kristina Hook was really interesting. Basically she and her team are taking affective computing to another level. I would almost say, that she de facto is investigating “pathos” appeals in technology (mobile, tablet and gamings systems). I really liked her presentation.

Standford has made a super cool presentation on Facebook and is thus taking the lead in the sense of new learnings. B.J. Fogg and Daisuke Lizawa had a great paper on differences in types of interaction in Japanese social networks versus Facebook/western social spaces.

Brian Cugelman made a nice presentation on website credibility:

I had my own session on the persuasive design of Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) and I had both positive and negative feedback.

Also really interesting at the persuasive is the short paper sessions. This year short papers are presented for 10 minutes in clusters of three and then a short discussion. This is a great format, since you get a lot of short pitches

For instance Evan Rosenfeld had a good session entitled: “How to build persuasive web applications: Three fundamental feedback loops”

Again we got some some nice practical design patterns from Stanford. It seems that they have undertaken the task to actually map out all persuasive interaction design patterns that they can find. This will be very useful in taking Persuasive Technology Design to the next level – enabling us to prescribe design.

Below professor B.J. Fogg and Julie Leth:

Day 1 will close with a closed with a panel where I will be participating.

Overall a lot of interesting viewpoints emerged on day 1 and it was evident that there is still plenty of issues to be discussed in regards to the future of rhetoric and persuasion.

More on this tomorrow – where I will use a better compression for the pictures ;-)

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Nice and easy download that will allow you to produce merged PDF files oh and split large ones too – but you already had that figured out ;-)

I was browsing my google reader and lifehacker had an application that I must share with the world!

It’s called netdrive and was developed by Novell:

Mount remote drives over FTP, SFTP, WebDAV or iFolder to your desktop with freeware application NetDrive. Once mounted, you can navigate your remote drive like any other folder in Windows Explorer. The application is free to download, but its development has been discontinued so it’s somewhat hard to come by (hence the direct download link below).

via: Lifehacker

What it basically allow you to do is to mount an ftp server as a normal drive in explorer. This is very useful, if you are working on several different computers or if you just want to make backups.

I have my weblog here at protos.dk it is hosted at www.one.com. They offer many gigabytes of storrage, and this space is perfect for backing up files or storing files in transit.

I made a new folder today: www.protos.dk/freeware/netdrive.zip

Go on give it a go!

Novell still has a manual for the thing online.

I am one happy camper :-)