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Videos of Day 1 of Interaction14 conference

Languaging reality, dialogue and interaction [41:05] Keynote by Klaus Krippendorff, Emeritus Professor of Communication at The Annenberg School for Communication... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 19, 2014 at 04:29 AM

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The anthropology of globalization / The ethnography of finance

Keith Hart is Professor of Economic Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Goldsmith’s,... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 15, 2014 at 06:16 AM

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anthropology + design: nicolas nova

Rachel Carmen Ceasar (@rceasara) is a doctoral candidate in the Joint Medical Anthropology Program at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco (California, USA). She writes... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 14, 2014 at 07:51 AM

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An ethnography of the Brixton Pound

Mario Campana (@mariocampana), a PhD student at City University London’s Cass Business School, researches the growing trend of local currencies – of which there... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 14, 2014 at 07:28 AM

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Interview with man at the heart of Facebook ethnography kerfuffle

Tricia Wang interviewed Daniel Miller, the anthropologist at the heart of the Facebook ethnography kerfuffle, and published the transcript on EthnographyMatters... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 14, 2014 at 07:11 AM

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Exploring new markets for Firefox OS: mobile and internet behaviours in Central Europe

Experientia has lately been doing a lot of work on mobile OSes, from feature evaluations of some of the more interesting new arrivals, to comparisons of some of... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 13, 2014 at 12:09 PM

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Qualitative research in industry – videos from the Qualitative 360 Asia Pacific conference

Qualitative 360 Asia Pacific 2013 took place in Singapore in November 2013, and some videos are now available: Winning with shoppers via qualitative research [23... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 13, 2014 at 11:42 AM

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A case study on inclusive design: ethnography and energy use

Energy usage and conservation can be a seemingly mundane part of an individual’s daily life on one hand, but a politically, ecologically, and economically critical... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 13, 2014 at 07:16 AM

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The Museum of Future Government Services

The Museum of Future Government Services, which in Dubai on the 10th of February at the UAE Government Summit, is an interactive design futures. The Museum explores... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 12, 2014 at 07:07 AM

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An anthropologist walks into a bar…

In 2006 a major European brewing company we’ll call BeerCo was faced with falling bar and pub sales and, despite muscular market research and competitive analysis... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 12, 2014 at 06:51 AM

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Data and design in innovative citizen experiences

The past decade has brought enormous and growing benefits to ordinary citizens through applications built on public data. Any release of data offers advantages... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 12, 2014 at 06:45 AM

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How to involve children in the design process?

What are the advantages and challenges inherent in working with children in the design process for creating games or apps? How do you stop them getting bored, and... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 11, 2014 at 10:38 AM

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Tricia Wang’s PhD dissertation — Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media

Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media by Tricia Wang Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, University of California, San Diego, 2013 Professor Richard... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 11, 2014 at 07:07 AM

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Adam Gopnik: “Why I don’t tweet”

Adam Gopnik, who writes for the New Yorker, has only ever sent nine tweets. In this long BBC article he explains why: ” Everyone insists that the technological... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 9, 2014 at 03:56 PM

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Move over product design, UX is the future

Rick Wise, CEO of Lippincott, says experience innovation is the next design imperative. Here are five things you can do this year to make that happen. “Today’s... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 9, 2014 at 03:45 PM

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There is no UX, there is only UX

Leisa Reichelt, Head of User Research at the Government Digital Service [GDS] in the UK Cabinet Office, argues that UX belongs everywhere and nowhere. That there... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 9, 2014 at 03:41 PM

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A review of Adam Greenfield’s Against the Smart City

Chris Carlsson started reading Adam Greenfield’s new book, Against the Smart City, “with the expectation that it would be a critical view of the ways our urban... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 9, 2014 at 03:30 PM

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How Big Brother’s going to peek into your connected home

The tech industry easily convinced the public to accept a myriad of free services for the price of some loss of privacy. But getting them to embrace the smart home... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 9, 2014 at 03:17 PM

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The Facebook ethnography kerfuffle

At the center of this kerfuffle is an anthropologist, Daniel Miller, his ethnographic research with teenagers in a small town in the UK, and a press report on a... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 31, 2014 at 06:12 AM

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How should we analyse our lives?

Alex “Sandy” Pentland, a professor of computational social sciences at MIT Media Lab and others like him are now convinced that the great academic divide between... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 21, 2014 at 06:38 AM