Posts tagged with: people

Phone Usage as Passive Mental Health Monitoring

Presenter: Chris Eade
Affiliation: Zafty Intelligence, CEO
Abstract: Mental heath is a global problem being tackled from many sides. For the last 3 years we have been collecting anonymous granular phone usage data from just under 1,000,000 users globally. We record every phone unlock, every app open …

Dealing with Complexity

Long Title: Dealing with Complexity and the Hope to Build Better Technology
Speaker: Patrick Scannell
Affiliation: Technestar LLC, Principal
Abstract:
Today’s tech is characterized by rapidly accelerating complexity, both in the densely layered technology itself, but also in the increasingly hyper-specialised people who are needed to build it. But each …