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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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Five things about Ubiquitous Computing that make Anne Galloway nervous
Dr Anne Galloway (@annegalloway) is Senior Lecturer, School of Design, and Deputy Head, School of Architecture, at Victoria University of Wellington. Trained in...
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Web privacy, and how consumers let down their guard
Consumers insist that they treasure their online privacy. But their mouse clicks tell a far different tale, as the experiments of a behavioral economist show. In...
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Debate in Milan: The Long View of Interaction Design
The people behind the upcoming Interaction14 conference invite you to attend a panel discussion in Milan on the “Long View of Interaction Design”. On Monday 8 April...
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The next Big UI Idea: gadgets that adapt to your skill
As gadgets get more complicated, UI’s must be able to teach their users over time. Philip Battin shows how flow can be used to improve the user experience in interactive...
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Is Open Government working?
In an insightful blog post, Reboot principal Panthea Lee asks if open government initiatives make citizens more informed and engaged, and make governments more...
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What can ethnography bring to the study of deliberative democracy?
Open government initiatives offer new, often technologically enabled avenues for civic participation. But which populations have the access and motivation to use...
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Human-centred systems innovation
How do we help or support people that live in situations that do not fit into a system’s categories, e.g. by transforming perceptions of what a system can be? This...
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Big Data and personal data for behavioral analysis and behavioral change
In a broader article on Big Data and privacy, the New York Times writes about the work of Alex Pentland, a computational social scientist, director of the Human...
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She’s not talking about it, but Siri is plotting world domination
Apple has a vision of a future in which the disembodied voice of Siri is your constant companion. It goes something like this: You arrive home at the end of a long...
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The next wave in branding: merging experiences across markets
It’s time to start thinking strategically about designing user experiences for interconnected ecosystems like health care, argues frog’s Fabio Sergio. “Within [massive...
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Sustainable living and behavioural change
A Unilever sponsored sustainability supplement to The Guardian contains a short articles by Dan Lockton that is worth exploring. Design for sustainability: making...
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Book: A History of Future Cities
A History of Future Cities by Daniel Brook W. W. Norton & Company 2013 – 480 pages [Amazon link] The new book A History of Future Cities looks at the attempts of...
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Ethnography: Ellen Isaacs at TEDxBroadway
Ellen Isaacs (personal site), a user experience designer and ethnographer at PARC, spoke on January 28 at TEDx Broadway about the power of ethnography and how it...
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Smart homes: our next digital privacy nightmare
The hyper-connected smart home of the future promises to change the way we live. More efficient energy usage, Internet-connected appliances that communicate with...
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Book: Present Shock – When Everything Happens Now
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff Current Hardcover March 2013, 216 pages [Amazon] Abstract This is the moment we’ve been waiting for...
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UK Government Service Design Manual
The UK Government Service Design Manual provides a (draft) digital by default service standard, as well as guidance and tools for building world-class digital services...
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Design and public services
Design and Public Services is the second publication in the UK Design Commission‘s ‘Restarting Britain’ series. The first set out the strategic importance of design...
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methods@manchester: research methods in the social sciences
methods@manchester is a website created by the University of Manchester to highlight and explain research methods in the social sciences. Many sections come with...
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No to NoUI
‘The best design is invisible’ is the interaction design phrase of the moment. Design and technology will ‘disappear’, become ‘invisible’, and the ‘best interface...
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