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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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Basque PhD thesis on relationship of youth today with new technologies
A few days ago sociologist Ms Luc
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Mobile devices and privacy
Should we focus on changing the behaviour of people OR changing the behaviour of devices? That is the key question in article by Ajit Jaokar on his blog Open Gardens...
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How mobile devices could lead to more city living
People pushing sustainability don’t tend to be the same types who love our digital-crazed iWorld. And that’s a problem because it means they don’t push one of the...
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The library user experience: services before content
Libraries will have to build a new foundation if they are to recover from these economic hard times
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To win over users, gadgets have to be touchable
Researchers say that touch screens are the start of a trend to make computers more open to human gestures, argues the New York Times. “Device makers in a post-iPhone...
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Interactions magazine on human nuances
The current issue of Interactions Magazine is generally on the nuances of what makes us human, writes co-editor-in-chief Jon Kolko, and more in particular “about...
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Aesthetics of interaction
The latest issue of the International Journal of Design, eer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to publishing research papers in all fields of design, is devoted...
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A weird way of thinking has prevailed worldwide
If a provocative new study is to be believed, the world lives in a situation where American undergraduates monopolize our knowledge of human nature, writes Anand...
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Digital dinosaurs and public gardens
Two new articles in UX Magazine: Don’t become a digital dinosaur by Samantha Starmer UX professionals can
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Technology aside, most people still decline to be located
Mostly the young are interested in letting others know their physical location. Others are reticent for safety reasons, or against providing too much information...
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Neighborly borrowing, over the online fence
The New York Times reports on how online start-ups are allowing people to rent out their belongings locally, for a small fee. “The Roomba was mine for only 24 hours...
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French ethnographic research on smartphone use
Le Monde newspaper published (Google translation) today a summary of an ethnographic research project on smartphone use by young adult, presented yesterday at a...
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Dublin, Ireland to host Interaction 12
The City of Dublin and the Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT) will act as co-hosts for Interaction 12, the annual conference of the Interaction Design...
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Trapped in the Anglosphere
Martin Kettle thinks the UK has lost sight of next door Europe, trapped as Brits are in their Anglo-centric internet. “It is hard to recall a time when the national...
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Finland
The 2010 Finnish National Innovation Strategy contains an important section on demand and user-driven innovation, with user-driven innovation being described as...
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Does technology pose a threat to our private life?
This week Google’s Eric Schmidt suggested we may need to invent new identities to escape embarrassing online pasts
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Younghee Jung on design research for Nokia
Younghee Jung, manager and design researcher at the Nokia Research Centre in Bangalore, India, has been profiled again on the Nokia Conversations blog through a...
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Designing for the loss of control
The people at frogdesign have posted two long articles (the first one is really an essay) that we consider a recommended read: Openness or how do you design for...
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Creating immersive experiences with diegetic interfaces
Imon Deshmukh of Cooper thinks that interfaces can be more closely integrated with the environment in which they operate. In an article on the Cooper blog, he shares...
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