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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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Why smart cities need an urgent reality check
Responsive urban technology sounds enticing but citizens must not be disconnected from plans drawn up on their behalf, argues Gary Graham in The Guardian. “It’s...
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A UX view of the future of mobile networks and systems
The latest post of the User Experience Lab at Ericsson Research presents a UX view of the future of mobile networks and systems. “The “Remote Control over Mobile...
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Observing the technologists
Nick Seaver, a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at UC Irvine, makes the case for the importance of “studying up“: doing ethnographies not only of disempowered...
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Swedish inspirations on design for public policy
The Forum for Social Innovation Sweden is a meeting place for academia, industry, government, civic society and non-profit organisations in Sweden striving to develop...
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The Great Convergence
Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path argues that the constellations in the user experience field are shifting and that we are experiencing some sort of collision...
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Search results on travel sites: examples and best practices
Search results pages on travel sites should help customers to find the best deal for them without having to work too hard. Graham Charlton of Econsultancy looked...
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How collaborating with patients improves hospital care
The Guardian reports on how a new UK project where patients and NHS staff work together to improve services shows that even small changes can have a big impact...
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The user experience of enterprise technology
Most big businesses globally are locked into some kind of reliance on enterprise technology. Unfortunately such systems are not only fiendishly difficult to install...
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De l’importance de l’ethnographie appliquée aux technologies
For once a post in French! Hubert Guillaud of InternetActu describes some examples – mostly from the recent EPIC conference – of the great contribution of ethnography...
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Campaign: Mobile card set of facilitation and training techniques
Are you a trainer? Do you facilitate meetings? Help the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (an Experientia client) to develop...
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Designers Toolkit: Capturing research | Using video in research
Lauren Ruiz of Cooper in San Francisco has published two new instalments of the Designers Toolkit: A Primer On Capturing Research How you choose to conduct and...
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Experientia’s mini-doc for the UN’s International Labour Organization
The first destination: The path to decent work in rural economies Experientia’s short documentary for the UN’s International Labour Organization It’s always a pleasure...
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Has privacy become a luxury good?
Julia Angwin, a senior reporter at ProPublica, writes in the New York Times about how it takes a lot of money and time to avoid hackers and data miners. “In our...
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Reflecting on anthropology and design
A few weeks back I wrote that Rachel Carmen Ceasar (@rceasara) is running a short series on Savage Minds that features interviews with design researchers, ethnographic...
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[Book] The Moment of Clarity
The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems by Christian Madsbjerg, Mikkel Rasmussen Harvard Business Review Press...
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[Book] The City as Interface
The City as Interface How New Media Are Changing the City By Martijn de Waal nai010 Publishers 2014, 208 pages Digital and mobile media are changing the way urban...
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What the tech business hasn’t yet grasped about human nature
Genevieve Bell, Intel’s in-house anthropologist, sees constants in our behavior that could mean big bucks for businesses that find a way to capitalize on them....
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Will your clothing spy on you?
In his lecture “The Ethicist’s and the Lawyer’s New Clothes: The Law and Ethics of Smart Clothes,” I. Glenn Cohen, Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School, warns...
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Videos of Day 3 of Interaction14 conference
Is there a Language of Interaction Design [Not yet online] Keynote by Gillian Crampton Smith, Designer/Educator, IUAV University of Venice > Full description Bridging...
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