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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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Interaction-Ivrea, Arduino and Intel’s Galileo
Intel’s Arduino-compatible open-source Galileo development board was launched today in Italy at Rome’s Maker Faire. Rightfully so, as the initiative has such deep...
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Dancing to silent algorithms
More and more, we live our lives according to the unknown auspices of machine codes, writes Frank Swain. “Our lives are influenced by technologies not simply as...
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The problem with big data correlations
“The people using big data don’t presume to peer deeply into people’s souls,” argues David Brooks in the New York Times (in a March 2013 column). “They don’t try...
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The Qualified Self
Looking at yet another tweet and another post about the Quantified Self, I started reflecting this morning on the Silicon Valley-driven fascination with the quantification...
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The science behind using online communities to change behavior
Sean Young, a behavioral psychologist, a family medicine professor and director of innovation at the center for behavioral and addiction medicine at UCLA, addresses...
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Ethnography and speculative fiction
Two new articles on Ethnography Matters: Ethnographies from the Future: What can ethnographers learn from science fiction and speculative design? Laura Forlano...
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Book: People-Centered Innovation
People-Centered Innovation: Becoming a Practitioner in Innovative Research by Pedro Oliveira Biblio Publishing, 2013 194 pages [Amazon] Written with a general audience...
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An ethnography of interaction design practice (PhD dissertation)
Delivering Design: Performance and Materiality in Professional Interaction Design is the title of the PhD dissertation Sarah Goodman defended last year to obtain...
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Mobile mastery
Lauren Pope of Nokia writes that there are three things to think about if you want your devices and your brain to sing in unison: mindfulness, attention and metacognition...
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Simon Roberts (EPIC chair) reflects on Big Data, business and ethnography
Simon Roberts, the highly engaging, smart and easily approachable chair of the EPIC conference last week, was so absorbed with all the logistics that he didn’t...
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When does quantity become quality? How to navigate big data
While “Big Data” is causing excitement in the IT and business sector, the practice and concept of data analysis is not unfamiliar to those coming from a UX research...
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Can Smarter Cities improve our quality of life?
Can information and technology improve the quality of life in cities? That seems a pretty fundamental question for the Smarter Cities movement to address. There...
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Does digital age overcomplicate design?
Alice Rawsthorn, design critic of the New York Times, argues that too many products use complexity to mask their flaws. “Designing self-explanatory products is...
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Online time can hobble brain’s important work
While you are browsing online, you could be squandering memories — or losing important information, according to Swedish research. Contrary to common wisdom, an...
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Financial Times on EPIC conference
This week, business anthropologists from all over the world descended on the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference at London’s Royal Institution, the historic...
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How Public Design? A conference at Mindlab
MindLab, a cross-ministerial innovation unit in Denmark, hosted the seminar titled ‘How Public Design?’ for the second time on 2 and 3 September. This event gathered...
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Is design still about making things?
The future of design is a broad and slippery subject, one examined number of designers and critics at the recent Alvar Aalto Design Seminar in Jyväskylä, Finland...
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How robots can trick you into loving them
The secret to robots with better social skills? Exploiting human nature. Maggie Koerth-Baker, science editor of BoingBoing.net, explores “how [designers can make]...
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EthnographyMatters on the relationships between ethnography, fiction and design
This month’s theme of EthnographyMatters, edited by Nicolas Nova, is about the relationships between ethnography, speculative fiction and design. “In design circles...
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