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[Report] Shaping Choices in the Digital World

Shaping Choices in the Digital World From dark patterns to data protection: the influence of ux/ui design on user empowerment Jean Lessi (Publication Director);... Experientia
From Putting People First | November 5, 2019 at 06:50 AM

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Smart City Index that takes citizen engagement into account

A team of researchers from IMD in Switzerland and SUTD in Singapore put together the Smart City Index. For the first time, researchers attempted to assess people... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 10, 2019 at 11:37 AM

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The Design Council’s evolved Double Diamond

At the heart of the Design Council’s framework for innovation, which helps designers and non-designers across the globe tackle some of the most complex social,The... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 3, 2019 at 06:25 AM

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Money’s new abstractions: Apple Pay and the economy of experience

Money’s new abstractions: Apple Pay and the economy of experience by Nathaniel Tkacz Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 26 Sep 2019 DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2019... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 28, 2019 at 03:00 PM

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[Book] Too Smart

Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World By Jathan Sadowski The MIT Press March 2020, 240 pages Who... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 28, 2019 at 02:52 PM

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AI’s social sciences deficit

To create less harmful technologies and ignite positive social change, AI engineers need to enlist ideas and expertise from a broad range of social science disciplines... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 26, 2019 at 08:12 AM

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Better care in the age of automation

Doteveryone, a UK charity focused on how technology is changing society, has published a report “Better care in the age of automation” that sets out how technology... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 24, 2019 at 08:25 AM

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The anthropologist of Artificial Intelligence

The algorithms that underlie much of the modern world have grown so complex that we always can’t predict what they’ll do. Iyad Rahwan, who directs the Center for... Experientia
From Putting People First | August 26, 2019 at 11:15 PM

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[Book] The Costs of Connection

The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias Stanford University Press August... Experientia
From Putting People First | August 24, 2019 at 01:18 AM

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End user perceptions of smart home device data practices and risks

“I don’t own the data”: End User Perceptions of Smart Home Device Data Practices and Risks Madiha Tabassum, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Tomasz Kosinski... Experientia
From Putting People First | August 24, 2019 at 01:10 AM

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Digital service teams in government

Digital service teams in government Ines Mergel, Professor of Public Administration, University of Konstanz, Germany Government Information Quarterly August 2019... Experientia
From Putting People First | August 24, 2019 at 12:54 AM

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[Book] Behavioural macroeconomics

Behavioural Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy Paul De Grauwe and Yuemei Ji Oxford University Press October 2019, 256 pages Modern macroeconomics has been based[Book]... Experientia
From Putting People First | August 24, 2019 at 12:50 AM

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The digital lives of refugees [Research report]

There is growing recognition among donors and humanitarian organisations that mobile technology and mobile network operators (MNOs) have an important role to play... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 17, 2019 at 01:25 AM

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Experientia on addressing vaccine hesitancy

Vaccine hesitancy is a top10 global health threat. Dealing with it successfully requires understanding it as a behaviour and generating a holistic view of people... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 4, 2019 at 08:32 PM

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MacArthur Foundation’s “100&Change” competition now calling for applications

100&Change is a MacArthur Foundation competition for a $100 million grant to fund a single proposal that will make measurable progress toward solving a significant... Experientia
From Putting People First | May 2, 2019 at 03:01 AM

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The story of Spotify personas

Spotify’s product designer Mady Torres de Souza and senior user researchers Olga Hörding and Sohit Karol explain how they developed their personas tool, how they... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 4, 2019 at 07:36 PM

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When ethnography becomes a joke

For a number of years, we have witnessed a diminishing appetite for ethnographic work among commercial clients, writes Patricia Sunderland, PhD and founder of Cultural... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 3, 2019 at 09:42 PM

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Old, online, and fed on lies: How an aging population will reshape the internet

Although many older Americans have, like the rest of us, embraced the tools and playthings of the technology industry, a growing body of research shows they have... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 3, 2019 at 09:13 PM

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Research findings send automated sentiment analysis to the trash bin

The age of social media has opened up exciting opportunities for researchers to investigate people’s emotional states on a massive scale. For example, one study... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 31, 2019 at 05:24 AM

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Time Change: How the UX of Time Begins Below the UI

The user experience of most web-based applications begins well below the interface, all the way down to fields in a database. Examining how systems and users experience... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 31, 2019 at 05:15 AM