IFTF: Future Now

Why Real-Time Video Matters to Health

Jan 22, 2010 By Jake Dunagan

On Wednesday, January 19, IFTF released the report The Future of Real-Time Video Communication. This report addressed the question: What is the...

Forget the carrot, I need the stickK (or do I?)

Jan 22, 2010 By Vivian Distler

Quit smoking, lose weight, get in shape. Now that we are three weeks into 2010, how many of us need help sticking to our New Year's resolutions? ...

Shopping for Your Genome

Jan 21, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

I spent the last couple days at the Personalized Medicine World Conference and one of the most intriguing companies I encountered was a small startup...

Mining reality for persuasive feedback

Jan 20, 2010 By David Pescovitz

Nadav Aharony, an MIT Media Lab graduate student, studies how that data that's passively collected by mobile devices can be used to predict the user's...

How new models for building the Web will reshape Innovation

Jan 19, 2010 By Anthony Townsend

Using nature and gaming to persuade for productivity

Jan 19, 2010 By Lyn Jeffery

Nathan Verrill, an interaction designer, applied gaming guru, and usability expert who among other things was a key figure in the development of our...

Is the Web drowning out your future self?

Jan 19, 2010 By Lyn Jeffery

Every year The Edge organization asks a "world question" and Edge members answer it in short essays. Question 2010 is: How is the Internet changing...

Why replacing hormones seems different from replacing ankles

Jan 18, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

Readers of the New York Times received an odd juxtaposition over the last couple days that can be roughly summed up as: A small but growing number of...

Brain health is on my mind

Jan 18, 2010 By Vivian Distler

Even as I write this, the Health Horizons team is in the middle of participating in the SharpBrains Virtual Summit, which you can follow on Twitter at...

Persuasion, Coercion, and MLK

Jan 17, 2010 By Jake Dunagan

For many years now, serious academic researchers have been looking closely at the concept, technologies, and implications of persuasion. This Spring,...

Avatar maximization: a future skill?

Jan 16, 2010 By Lyn Jeffery

If you use an avatar to communicate with others, you might want to consider how your avatar is priming others to respond to...

Future of Persuasion: Core research questions

Jan 16, 2010 By Lyn Jeffery

Here are the core research questions we'll be asking over the next five months. 1. What are the new directions of change in persuasive tech? In...

Future of Persuasion: Future As Persuasion

Jan 12, 2010 By Lyn Jeffery

We're excited to begin collecting our thoughts--and yours, if you want to contribute--to the Future of Persuasion:Future as Persuasion project blog....

Applying Superstruct Design for an Augmented Reality Developers Camp

Jan 11, 2010 By Michael Liebhold

Recently a few colleagues and I organized an Augmented Reality Developers Camp - a perfect example of a "Superstruct" an idea introduced In 2008 by...

A Different Kind of Health Preview

Jan 11, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

At the Institute, we've spent a fair amount of time thinking about how visualization tools can help encourage people to improve their health by...

Leaders Make the Future Audiobook

Jan 05, 2010 By Lisa Mumbach

Bob Johansen's book Leaders Make the Future is now available as an audiobook through audible.com. You can purchase the audiobook...

Biological Explanations of Everything

Jan 05, 2010 By Bradley Kreit

Miller McCune highlights a recent study suggesting that there may be some genetic basis for the intensity of a person's political...

Accepting Virtual House Calls

Dec 22, 2009 By Vivian Distler

I usually try to avoid blogging about stories from the mainstream press, but this headline—"The Virtual Visit May Expand Access to Doctors"—in the New...

Gearing up for the Smart Brains Summit: An Interview with Michael Merzenich

Dec 21, 2009 By Vivian Distler

Dr. Michael Merzenich, a pioneer in brain plasticity and co-founder of Posit Science, was a keynote speaker at our HC2020 Fall Conference. He...

Designing for Self-Control

Dec 17, 2009 By Bradley Kreit

Via the Nudge Blog, I was reminded of a computer program called Self Control that allows a user to block his own access to email, Twitter and Facebook...

Designing the future of health care . . . or is it really about designing the future of health?

Dec 17, 2009 By Vivian Distler

At IFTF, the Health Horizons Program is spending time looking at the latter and considering how design thinking may apply to the future of health. ...