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What can digital assistants learn from traumatic memories and…Abraham Lincoln? 
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Oct 2019
11: Healthcare 🏥👩🏼‍⚕️ User Experience - Patients
What do we want to get out of our experience with hospitals and doctors? How do connected devices play into each of our individual healthcare experiences? And how can we use machine learning to make sense of a massive amount of data? 
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10: Vacation 🏖 User Experience - Tourists
Come with us on a journey across seven states to find out how exploration is improving photos and overcoming prejudice. 
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9: Education 👩‍🎓 User Experience – Students
It’s not uncommon for us to ignore the impact of poor UX on our daily routine. A poorly designed app might make us miss a bus. A poorly designed door might make us look foolish. Often the effort required to right the wrong outweighs the cost. But in the case of education, a poorl ... Show More
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