Mentorship from the Trenches

CyberStudies: Lessons from the Trenches

Many individuals suffer from anxiety, stress, and depression and those serving in the U.S. military are no exception. Warfighters keep returning from theater with combat stress. Several of these military service members are also technology oriented and tend to prefer performing their daily life activities with and/or near computerized systems. Fortunately, some researchers specialize in helping...

The view from the trenches

Commentary Almost 25 years have passed since the emergence of Harm Reduction in the Asian region. The first harm reduction programmes began as social movements that were driven by NGOs and civil society concerned about the potential spread of HIV epidemics among people who inject drugs (PWID). More than half the global population lives in the Asian region, with two of the most densely populated...

Agile @ Yahoo! From the Trenches

Yahoo! is a great proving ground for Agile. Since the introduction of Agile methods and practices into the company over five years ago, many contests of the Agile process have played out across the expansive Yahoo! software development landscape. Throughout its history, the spirit of Agile has survived, often in surprising and unexpected ways. Whether being mandated from the executive-level or ...

The view from the health plan trenches.

Interactive Installations: Tales from the Trenches

Breakthrough innovation can be interpreted as research translated into products that the market accepts. The process of market translation of several products developed by WowSystems, a Portuguese company specialized in novel interaction paradigms, is explained in this paper as a case study shedding some light into how innovation centers can better promote innovation, in the form of well-succee...