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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI

From Schneier on Security Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration … B. Schneier | February 29, 2024

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Book: Putting people back at the heart of cities

The Lure of the City: From Slums to Suburbs [Paperback] Edited by Austin Williams and Alastair Donald Pluto Press, September 2011 224 pages Review by Spiked: A... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 28, 2011 at 12:49 PM

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Why Microsoft

A viral clip produced by Microsoft is–like almost every video on this subject–amazingly polished. It’s also inane and completely lifeless, says FastCo Design. “Futuristic... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 28, 2011 at 12:40 PM

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BlackBerry Future Visions

Research in Motion seems to have commissioned a pair of videos envisioning portable technology in the not-so-distant future, writes PocketNow: specifically, they... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 28, 2011 at 10:05 AM

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Design and the social sector: an annotated bibliography

This bibliography – now published on Change Observer – was initiatied in early 2011 as an independent study project by Courtney Drake, a graudate student at the... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 28, 2011 at 09:58 AM

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Smartphones Find Niche in Human Behaviour Tests

Researchers are using innovative tools to perform psychological experiments a lot faster than they used to. Experts believe the number of smartphone users worldwide... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 28, 2011 at 09:48 AM

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Energy consumption in the home

The Danish Alexandra Institute (see also previous post) published in 2009 an anthropological user study of needs, motivations and barriers in relation to energy... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 26, 2011 at 11:01 AM

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The Internet of Things comic book

The Danish Alexandra Institute has just released a comic book called “Inspiring the Internet of Things,” which explains the benefits of networking everyday objects... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 26, 2011 at 10:50 AM

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Audio of EPIC 2011 presentations

The organisers of the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry (EPIC 2011) conference have posted audio of the keynotes and most of the presentations. The conference took... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 25, 2011 at 06:11 PM

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Want to create a great product? First, forget

User-friendliness is the inevitable result of a smart design approach, not the starting point. Robert Hoekman, Jr lists three criteria to help you develop a useful... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 25, 2011 at 05:14 PM

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Intentional environments: designing a culture of co-creation

Elements such as social dynamics, communication styles, and creative inspiration deeply affect our experience of work and what we create. While most of us don’t... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 25, 2011 at 05:09 PM

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Games, Life and Utopia conference

Games, Life and Utopia is a half-day event in Pottsdam, Germany on 11 November, that is all about gamification, serious games, learning and play. It Experientia
From Putting People First | October 25, 2011 at 11:58 AM

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Philips launches

Today Philips presented its latest forward looking design project Experientia
From Putting People First | October 20, 2011 at 04:38 PM

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Google

In a long interview, Matias Duarte, Android Experientia
From Putting People First | October 20, 2011 at 11:06 AM

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Metamemory and the user experience

When people expect to be able to access information in the future, they tend to have reduced memory for the actual information, but enhanced memory for where to... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 20, 2011 at 09:04 AM

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Cadillac User Experience (CUE)

Last week, Cadillac launched its new “CUE” vehicle infotainment system. The name is an acronym that stands for Cadillac User Experience Experientia
From Putting People First | October 20, 2011 at 08:46 AM

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The psychology of UX

When UX designer Vanessa Carey read Susan Weinschenk’s article “The Psychologist’s View of UX Design” (published in UXMag last year), she decided to explore each... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 20, 2011 at 08:29 AM

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The rise of cross-channel UX design

“Seamless, cross-channel experiences are the way of the future, as technology fades into the background and the personal, physical, and social context determine... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 18, 2011 at 02:13 PM

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Data visualisation: in defence of bad graphics

Simon Rogers asks on The Guardian’s DataBlog if there is a backlash gathering steam against web data visualisations. “There has definitely been a shift. A few years... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 17, 2011 at 01:07 PM

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Service design, the most important term you haven

James Rock, the managing director and chief business designer for Cultivar Consulting Limited, a business and services design consultancy, talks about service design... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 17, 2011 at 10:06 AM

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Consumer futures 2020 scenarios

Sainsbury Experientia
From Putting People First | October 16, 2011 at 02:01 PM

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