Carney Performance Acceleration Blog

Responsive Web Design and Organizational Performance

John Low — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:07:00 GMT

Responsive web design, (RWD), is an important evolution in an increasingly on-demand world. RWD is a design approach that lets you view content in a way that is optimized for the screen size that you are viewing it on. For example, if I access a RWD website on my laptop, ...

3 Ideas on the Evolution of Learning and Performance Support

John Low — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:37:02 GMT

There is a hypothesis called “Punctuated Equilibrium” which posits that most of a species existence is static from an evolutionary perspective, and only on rare occasion is this stasis interrupted by an unforeseen event resulting in a disruptive change in the species evolution. While this idea has come under criticism, ...

Carney’s JAMtech™ 6 Launches this Weekend - The Origins of JAMtech™

John Carney — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:02:17 GMT

This Saturday at TC Williams High School in Alexandria VA, 55 students will gather for a day of technology and learning in art and science of digital game design. The event is broken into a half day of learning and a half day of creating – all with the help ...

Will Social Media Give Way to Social Government?

John Carney — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:57:24 GMT

Almost all of us use social media. In the past decade personal use of social technologies has exploded. But, what does it mean to use these social technologies to get work done? Do the same tools translate to the workplace? And what are the implications of social government- connecting government ...

Who Moved My Interactivity?

John Low — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:36:43 GMT

Currently the instructor led classroom is a dominant way that training gets done in the federal government. Increasingly this is getting offset by eLearning, where the lower level, knowledge-based content, gets pulled from the classroom and packaged as “read-ahead” material. The term “read-ahead” is particularly apt in this case, because ...

"Mobile First" Around the Corner

John Low — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:08:06 GMT

One of the biggest hurdles to realizing enterprise mobile within the Federal Government is security. DISA has recently certified an Android-based mobile system for DoD, (Here is the GCN article).Civilian agencies have been looking to DoD to pave the way for security, so this is potentially a big milestone. There are rumors ...

3 Reasons Why Serious Games are Coming of Age

John Low — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:07:06 GMT

Serious Games are here. This time last year, the term “serious game” was not widely accepted as appropriate within many federal agencies. “The Federal Government doesn’t play games”, was an oft heard refrain. Serious games have been around for a long time, and there have been important initiatives within the ...

Touch a NUI Does Not Make

John Low — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:11:37 GMT

I will be presenting at the upcoming mLearning DevCon conference on October 5^th in the New York Metro area, on the topic of Design Fundamentals for Natural User Interfaces.

As a sneak peak, I wanted to touch on the topic of touch vs. natural user interface, (NUI), often times ...

Creating "Hives" with Augmented Reality

John Low — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:04:23 GMT

Junaio is one of the leading augmented reality, (AR), browsers currently available. AR browsers use the camera on your mobile device to recognize locations, images and natural features and overlay additional contextual information onto the live feed from your camera. A few days ago, Junaio, released a feature called SCAN. ...

The 4-Hour Organization

John Low — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:53:05 GMT

Tim Ferriss wrote two influential books called The 4-Hour Work Week and The 4-Hour Body. In both books Tim explores ways to get maximum effect from minimum input, both in terms of life-style design and fitness.

Tim references a study about abdominal exercises and their relative impact on muscle development. ...

The Thousand-Button Solution

John Low — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:31:21 GMT

I read an interesting report from the eLearning Guild on Rapid eLearning Authoring: Top Tools. The author Joseph Ganci, talks about the “Toolmaker Dilemma” of developing a tool that is both powerful and easy to use. The premise is that these two qualities are at odds with each other. ...

Augmented Reality Evolving with Marker-less AR

John Low — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:07:47 GMT

One of the more exciting advancements in augmented reality has to do with markerless AR. Essentially the technology used to “track” is evolving and becoming more sophisticated thanks in part to clever engineering and increased CPU power. Tracking is a process that an AR system uses to identify shapes in ...

vGov - Virtual Worlds and the Federal Government

John Low — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:37:36 GMT

The Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds, (FCVW), will be hosting their annual conference at Ft. McNair on May 11 – 13. The past four years, the FCVW has been the leading organization promoting the use of virtual worlds, (VW’s), in government. Started in 2007, FCVW had 40 members, all ...

10 Things that Get in the Way of a Good User Experience

John Low — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:13:14 GMT

When I think about user experience, (or UX), in training and performance applications, I think about screen-based experiences, that optimize information access, and/or directly support the adult learning process, in at least two important ways:

Structuring the user interface and information architecture for optimal access and minimal cognitive dissonance
Making an ...

Understanding Carney's Future by Examining the Past

Jim Smith, Ph.D. — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:26:05 GMT

Many of you have heard John Carney talk about performance acceleration, and Carney's goal of applying this principle not only to individual performance, but the performance of teams and teams of teams (an enterprise). Much of our current work is focused on accelerating individual performance, by developing training programs, simulations, ...