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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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How constant tech is breaking our brains
Fast Company spoke with tech pioneer Jaron Lanier, Microsoft CVP Emma Williams and Stanford professor Jeremy Bailenson.
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Google’s ethnographic research on selfies
The Gogle Wellbeing Lab joined up with the company's Pixel team to run an ethnographic study across four countries, examining the relationship people in the United...
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Rethinking human-AI interaction
This essay by AI specialist Jessy Lin explores some of the possibilities to rethink how humans and “intelligent” machines interact today.
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[Essay] Helsinki Design Lab ten years later
A survey of Helsinki Design Lab’s activities 2008–2013, with reflections on the three “bets” that the Lab made and their relevance today.
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[Paper] Foresight and Design: New Support for Strategic Decision Making
Integrating design with foresight enables decision makers to contend with changes coming from the world (inbound change) and changes the organization creates to...
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[Paper] Active consumer participation in smart energy systems
Designing energy services with a human-centered approach will allow us to rely on consumers not only as executors of changes in energy consumption, but also as...
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Lack of partnership with key community members causes ICT4D projects to fail
The main lesson is that even a nearly imperceptible deviation from the full inclusion of all relevant parties in every aspect of the project can result in large...
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The effect of Covid-19 on education in Africa
This report, and the survey findings behind it, provides a unique insight into the perspectives of EdTech experts regarding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic...
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[Book] The Weirdest People in the World
Provocative and engaging in both its broad scope and its surprising details, The WEIRDest People in the World explores how culture, institutions, and psychology...
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[Book] The Innovation Delusion
The authors offer a compelling plan for how we can shift our focus away from the pursuit of growth at all costs, and back toward neglected activities like maintenance...
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[Book] Slow computing
Slow Computing: Why We Need Balanced Digital Livesby Rob Kitchin and Alistair FraserBristol University PressSeptember 2020 – 224 pages Digital technologies should...
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Nicolas Nova: we have to learn how to domesticate our smartphones
Sur la base d‘une enquête de terrain menée à Genève, Los Angeles et Tokyo, cet ouvrage aborde la dimension proprement anthropologique du smartphone.
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[Book] Engaged: Designing for Behavioral Change
Behavior change design creates entrancing—and effective—products and experiences. Whether you’ve studied psychology or are new to the field, you can incorporate...
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Anthropology and technology conference
The Anthropology + Technology conference brings together pioneering technologists and social scientists from across the globe. Its aim is to facilitate dialogue...
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[Book] Possibilities and challenges of AI for work and society
Artificial Intelligence is permeating a wide range of areas and it is bound to transform work and society. This dossier asks what needs to be done politically in...
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Four priorities from the social changes for shaping the post-pandemic world
The social sciences don’t produce much in the way of patentable widgets or, indeed, life-saving vaccines. However, the analysis and insights they generate can and...
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Three reports to helps us address online manipulation
Research has gradually revealed the extent to which online manipulation has been weaponised to affect societies in almost every important way that society works...
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You are not your data but your data is still you
New worlds need new language. TOne of those things to name is what is happening to ourselves and our data proxies. Expanding our language from privacy to personhood...
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UX designer breaks down the “malicious” design of Trump’s campaign website
While UX designers are trained to be on the side of the user, there are ways that the user experience can be manipulated to be in favor of the "product" — in this...
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