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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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Report: Booting up mobile health
Mobile health is emerging at the intersection of dynamic changes in mobility patterns, health care delivery, and new mobile technologies and networks. New technologies...
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Articles on Danish design research
The Danish Centre for Design Research (DCDR) is an umbrella organisation under the Danish Ministry of Culture for the design research that takes place at the Aarhus...
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Real-time video in 2020
Skype commissioned the Institute for the Future to research and start a conversation about the future of real-time video communication and what will it feel like...
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If your kids are awake, they
The average young American now spends practically every waking minute
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Nokia
In recognition of the importance that good design and user experience plays in creating successful products and services, Forum Nokia has renewed and extended it...
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Book: Pervasive Information Architecture
Pervasive Information Architecture – Designing information space in ubiquitous ecologies is a book being written by Andrea Resmini and Luca Rosati for Morgan Kaufmann...
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Information and communication technologies vital for social inclusion
The World Economic Forum today released its study on Scaling Opportunity: Information and Communications Technology for Social Inclusion, an analysis of how ICT...
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danah boyd on why Zuckerberg is wrong to say
Ethnographer danah boyd, a Microsoft researcher, argues that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is wrong saying that ‘the age of privacy is over’. “Privacy isn’t a technological...
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Are mobile phones Africa
Whether it’s checking market prices of crops, transferring money or simply making a call, mobile phones are transforming Africa. But, asks The Guardian, could this...
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Good: the Slow Issue
Good, the collaborative magazine, has published its “Slow Issue” with perspectives on a smarter, better and slower future: “At its simplest, slow stands for a focus...
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From people to prototypes and products: ethnographic liquidity and the Intel Global Aging Experience study
The latest Intel Technology Journal (Volume 13, Issue 30 reports the research and development activities of the Intel Digital Health Group and its colleagues. One...
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Design for sustainable behaviour (part 3)
Can design change behavior? Although at times it can seem difficult to change just one person
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The world in 2020: A glimpse into the future
Ten years ago we thought wireless was another word for radio, Peter Mandelson’s career was over
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The New York Times on gestural interfaces
The New York Times reports on “natural” gestural interfaces in an article entitled “Giving Electronic Commands With Body Language”: “In the coming months, the likes...
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Denmark Leads the way in Digital Care
Using medical devices and notebook computers, Danish patients can see doctors without leaving home, and have the information automatically logged into electronic...
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A MobileActive.org whitepaper on scaling mobile services for development
Katrin Verclas of MobileActive.org has published a whitepaper entitled “Scaling Mobile Services for Development: What Will It Take?”. The paper, originially commissioned...
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Yahoo studies social science
Yahoo Labs is beefing up its ranks of social scientists, adding highly credentialed cognitive psychologists, economists and ethnographers from top universities...
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The bridge between cultures and design
Microsoft’s Joe Fletcher contributed an intriguing article on software UX in India and China on the ever more interesting Johnny Holland site: “Over roughly the...
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