Free Event: NUX in Manchester Monday 5 July 2010

The next event will see us have a chance to disuss two great items:

Design Patterns for E-Commerce

E-commerce is a highly competitive arena in which anything that can give a competitive edge is useful. Sam Sutton will present a review of some of the more popular design patterns in e-commerce, and look at how interaction design patterns have been adopted within the e-commerce sector.

Does Technology Make Any Difference In Our Social Life?

This talk will give an overview of the EPSRC/ESRC Foresight project ‘Developing Theory for Evolving Socio-Technical Systems’ (TESS). The project is based on Robin Dunbar’s Social Brain Theory that explains the evolutionary constraints on human relationships and social organisation. With the spread of Social Networking Sites such as Facebook and MySpace, will we be able avoid those constraints to keep up with more friends and be more social, or is the downside, invasion of privacy, stalking, and a less social world ? The TESS project is researching these issues by studying social networks and work-related groups. I will describe current research on social networking sites and how this fits into the wider picture of social mediating technologies such as Twitter, Wikipedia, etc. Investigating the questions- does technology really change the way we behave in our social life, how do we adapt and use these technologies, and what impact might technology have a social capital?

For more information on the project http://www.mbs.ac.uk/research/DTESS.aspx

Time

The event will be from 7pm to 9pm

Venue

Code Computerlove, Ducie House, Ducie Street, Manchester, M1 2JW

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