Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2009
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Store Decisions
What triggers in-store purchase decisions? To state the obvious: many things. (registration required)
From Putting People First
What Margaret Mead could teach techs
Fortune Magazine profiles Dr Genevieve Bell, an Australian-born anthropologist and ethnographer, and the Director of User Experience in Intel Corporation
From Putting People First
Study interaction design in Denmark
Given the success of the pilot year, the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) and the Danish Design School (DKDS) have decided to continue their collaboration in interaction design education. A year-long, graduate…
From Wild WebMink
Sunday Links on March 1st
OpenOffice.org User Survey 2009 Great sign that the developers know they aren't the only users of their software! Please take the survey and let the developers know what you use, how much you like it and what else they need to…
From Putting People First
Adam Greenfield towards a newer urbanism
Adam Greenfield, Nokia’s head of design direction for service and user-interface design, is frequently featured on Putting People First as his thinking is close to our own interests. According to his Twitter feed, he is not…
From Putting People First
Sweet to tweet
The Financial Times has posted a very long analysis on Twitter as a social phenomenon: “In its deceptively simple way, Twitter has stumbled on a formula that a whole generation of recent web start-ups has been searching for:…
From Putting People First
Book reviews of The Caryatids by Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling’s new science fiction novel The Caryatids is out and is collecting its first reviews. Here are the ones I found so far: Cory Doctorow - Boing Boing “Bruce Sterling’s The Caryatids, my pick for best book of 2009…
From Putting People First
Media literacy and social action in a post-Pokemon world
Cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito has posted a rough transcript of her (quite long) keynote address at the 51st NFAIS Annual Conference. “If I were to pick one thing that is profoundly different, it is the fact that making and…
From Putting People First
Microsoft
A new video from Microsoft shows in an elegant, if utopian way, what it might look like if all of those gadgets came together several years hence. Ina Fried of CNet News wasn’t entirely impressed: “The hardest thing for me to…
From Putting People First
Nissan interaction design team suffers to make future cars simple and painless
With the help of a proprietary “ageing suit” that mimics the mobility and faculties of an elderly driver, interaction designers at Nissan Design Center were able to create a unique interior-concept prototype. “It is almost painful…
From Putting People First
Web 2.0: a magic Ponzi scheme from a demon haunted world
Bruce Sterling keynoted last week on “The Short but Glorious Life of Web 2.0 and What Comes Afterward” at Webstock in Wellington. No video is (yet) available, but American journalist Annalee Newitz was there and she reports: Sterling…
From Putting People First
Primates on Facebook
The Economist calls in primatologists to better understand the limits of Facebook: “Perhaps additional friends are not free. Primatologists call at least some of the things that happen on social networks
From Putting People First
Two upcoming European conferences
IRealize Turin, Italy 9-10 June 2009 It’s still early days for this conference that presents itself as “two days aimed at identifying unsolved problems, suggesting possible (technological?) solutions and stimulating the creation…