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SELLING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY TO THE SELF-HELP READER The Wisest One in the Room: How You Can Benefit From Social Psychology's Most Powerful Insights By Thomas Gilovich and Lee Ross. New [...]

This work forms a part of a series of "on the ground" studies dealing with (post-)conflict situations, focusing on the iterative, participatory design of a tool, Cyberactivist, for protection for activists and the empirical research that led to it. Work on the development of privacy and security tools has not always recognized the fragile nature of the political processes in emerging democracies, frequent naivety about threat, nor the "occasioned" responses of activists because activism can be a "one time" endeavor, prompted by specific events. Researching political activism in Republika Srpska, we identified issues relating to the use of ICT and social media, leading to the redesign of our prototype which now raises awareness of privacy and security and supports activists by challenging ignorance, lowering exposure, and enabling remediation. We addressed "usable security" challenges to ensure simplicity of the tool and engaged with HCI researchers focused on international activism to assess the global applicability of the technical design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From installation to integration When it comes to the collection of digital consumption data in industrial settings, new sensor technology combines both an electrical component, that has to be integrated into the company's physical infrastructure, and a digital component, that has to be integrated into the IT infrastructure (thus making the sensor data available on the network). The IT service company, Beta, could not address the sensors from this other location via the company-wide connection. As a result, writing data to the database and querying the data while analyzing it was effectively unmanageable with the current infrastructure, i.e., the type of database and software the company relied on. So, in the end, aggregation of data was a challenge", I23.P18 Our observations therefore suggest that, when it comes to handling data, it is often the case that new areas of responsibility will emerge - as we observed when the IT-Department and Beta were given new responsibilities and started having a central role in the distribution of data to the various divisions of the company and different network structures. In our case, the company engaging in the digitalization of its energy management process did not fully appreciate the "plumbing" work necessary, nor were they aware of the implications that this would have for other company processes. [Extracted from the article]