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Facebook reveals news feed experiment to control emotions

Protests over secret study involving 689,000 users in which friends' postings were moved to influence moods

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The ten points of the Nuremberg Code

Required is the voluntary, well-informed, understanding consent of the human subject in a full legal capacity.

The experiment should aim at positive results for society that cannot be procured in some other way.

It should be based on previous knowledge (like, an expectation derived from animal experiments) that justifies the experiment.

The experiment should be set up in a way that avoids unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injuries.

It should not be conducted when there is any reason to believe that it implies a risk of death or disabling injury.

The risks of the experiment should be in proportion to (that is, not exceed) the expected humanitarian benefits.

Preparations and facilities must be provided that adequately protect the subjects against the experiment’s risks.

The staff who conduct or take part in the experiment must be fully trained and scientifically qualified.

The human subjects must be free to immediately quit the experiment at any point when they feel physically or mentally unable to go on.

Likewise, the medical staff must stop the experiment at any point when they observe that continuation would be dangerous.

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Stanford prison experiment continues to shock - BBC News

Forty years after the Stanford prison experiment, when ordinary people put in positions of power showed extreme cruelty to others, the study continues to trouble and fascinate.

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The Milgram Experiment 1962 Full Documentary

Captioned for educational purposes only

Ethics and experiments

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If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/movingwords/shortlist/newton.shtml

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Four golden lessons for research (Weinberg, 2003)

1. No one knows everything, and you don’t have to. Research what you need as you go along, as your research findings might throw up something new and you’d never get stated.

2. Go for the messes – that’s where the action is. Often progress can be incremental research and building on what has already been done. But, you can push through to make leaps and create opportunities.

3. Forgive yourself for wasting time. If you produce a negative result(s) it isn’t normally publishable as they are useful.

4. Learn something about the history of science, or at a minimum the history of your own branch of science. If we see ourselves as part of that research history we can see how work compares or learn from mistakes.

To add...

Don’t take my word for it. I might be wrong, verify and check it for yourself until you’re prepared to believe something.

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Creating new knowledge

Academic: Masters; PhD; thesis research etc

Industry: R&D - although this tends be closed to protect IP

Private: people working from their own homes / computers

Interesting approach with blending research and overlapping researchers’ private life. Consider ethics around this and the ability to be full objective. With public supported / funding projects. This tends to bring in larger budgets, better kudos and a more competitive nature which results in ‘excellence’ in terms of outputs and results. 

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How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone

Posted by Otavio Good, Software Engineer, Google Translate Today we announced that the Google Translate app now does real-time visual tr...

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The birth of a word

MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.

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How should you go about collecting data in usability tests? This article examines the data collection process in usability studies and describes some popular data logging solutions.

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A typical usability test may return over 100 usability issues. How can you prioritise the issues so that the development team know which ones are the most serious? By asking just 3 questions of the usability problem, we are able to classify the severity as low, medium, serious or critical.

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This year, I've heard from quite a few companies and agencies recommending What Users Do for improving their sites and services. I was intrigued by the rel. Marketing topic(s):User testing. Advice by Dave Chaffey.

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We're experts in UX Testing to help you understand your customers and improve conversions.

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Usability engineering, especially usability inspection, testing, and inquiry methods and techniques. Description of each method and technique, with references, books, and characteristics. A tools for choosing usability method and technique. A summary of usability engineering in software development lifecycle

Usability Testing approach