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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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A beautiful kids’ book that combines interactivity with good old-fashioned text
The Jörgits and the End of Winter, an indie fantasy novel for kids nine and up, uses interactivity as a supplement to the story, not a stand-in for it, and shows...
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Understanding people core strategic goal of World Bank financial inclusion group
The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) is an independent policy and research center, affiliated with the World Bank, dedicated to advancing financial...
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The case for preserving the pleasure of deep reading
The deep reading of books and the information-driven reading we do on the web are very different, both in the experience they produce and in the capacities they...
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Book: Rewire – Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection
Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection by Ethan Zuckerman W. W. Norton & Company, June 2013 288 pages [Amazon link] Abstract We live in an age of...
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Crafting UX – designing the user experience beyond the interface
In large technologically-driven organizations with a broad and complex product range, establishing a user-centric approach to product design can be very challenging...
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Interaction14 website live
Next year Interaction14, the top interaction design conference will be in Amsterdam, the second time it is in Europe (after Dublin in 2012). Now the website is...
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The limits of Big Data in the Big City
To be sure, big tech can zap some city weaknesses. But, argues Alec Appelbaum, many urban problems require a decidedly different approach. “The answers that make...
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Papers about sense-making and ethnotelling
From the Journal of Information Architecture: Sense-making in Cross-channel Design Jon Fisher (Nomensa), Simon Norris (Nomensa), and Elizabeth Buie (Luminanze Consulting)...
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The six myths of Big Data
During her keynote speech at the DataEdge conference, Kate Crawford, a researcher at Microsoft Research, identified what she calls “six myths of Big Data.”: 1....
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How Obama used ‘Ethnography Project’ to defeat Mitt Romney in 2012
Ken Walsh reports on how Team Obama made an unprecedented effort to understand the voters and speak their language, slicing and dicing the electorate with a sophistication...
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Smart cities and smart citizens
For future smart cities to thrive, it must be centred around people, not just infrastructure. This was the overwhelming message from a group of influential thinkers...
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The art of staying focused in a distracting world
James Fallows of The Atlantic interviewed tech-industry veteran Linda Stone, coiner of the term “continuous partial attention,” on how to maintain sanity and focus...
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The city as interface: an interview with Manuel Portela
Hillete Warner of The Enabling City, an initiative started and guided by the very inspiring Chiara Camponeschi, interviewed interaction designer and an event coordinator...
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How to design for the gut?
Visceral design is the key to creating experiences people can’t get enough of. Game designers and mobile app developers have done a great job of leveraging visceral...
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Are you ready for the era of Big Data?
Business agrees with governments — the more personal information they gather about us, the more “helpful” they can be. Should we give in to this “harmless” new...
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BBC on exploring and enhancing the TV user experience
The BBC’s R&D department has been working on how to exploit the interactive functionality now available through connected televisions through a number of projects...
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Social networks of mobile money in Kenya
Social networks of mobile money in Kenya Sibel Kusimba, Harpieth Chaggar, Elizabeth Gross, & Gabriel Kunyu Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion...
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A selection from academia.edu
Academia.edu, the platform for academics to share research papers, contains quite a few documents from fields such as design research, experience design and interaction...
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For consumers, an ‘Open Data’ society is a misnomer
Despite all the hoopla about an “open data” society, many consumers are being kept in the dark, writes Natasha Singer in The New York Times. “A few companies are...
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