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Interactions 12: Day Two
From Putting People First

Interactions 12: Day Two

Vicky Teinaki and Louise Taylor continue their coverage of the Interactions conference in Dublin. In this long article, they report on the presentations by Jonas...

Interactions 12: Day One
From Putting People First

Interactions 12: Day One

Dublin

Ethnography of mobile phone use in remote Mexican village
From Putting People First

Ethnography of mobile phone use in remote Mexican village

Tricia Wang of UCSD’s Department of Sociology and Barry Brown of the Mobile Life VINN Excellence Center Stockholm presented the paper “Ethnography of the telephone...

Inclusive Design
From Putting People First

Inclusive Design

The Norwegian Design Council has published a new resource site about inclusive design, to inform and communicate how this approach can be used as a strategy for...

The ethnography of robots
From Putting People First

The ethnography of robots

Heather Ford spoke with Stuart Geiger, PhD student at the UC Berkeley School of Information, about his emerging ideas about the ethnography of robots.

Does corporate ethnography suck?
From Putting People First

Does corporate ethnography suck?

In this first piece, Sam Ladner examines the different temporal conceptions of ethnographic fieldwork in industry and academia: “Academics frequently criticize...

State of Interaction Design: Diverging, by David Malouf
From Putting People First

State of Interaction Design: Diverging, by David Malouf

In anticipation of the upcoming IxDA Interaction12 Conference taking place in Dublin, Ireland February 1

The shift from watching TV to experiencing TV
From Putting People First

The shift from watching TV to experiencing TV

As more and more devices in your home get connected to the Internet, the user experience becomes increasingly important. The people at ReadWriteWeb announce that...

The city as interface. Digital media and the urban public sphere
From Putting People First

The city as interface. Digital media and the urban public sphere

On 23 January 2012, Martijn de Waal defended his Ph.D. thesis

The psychology of persuasion
From Putting People First

The psychology of persuasion

All human societies are alive with the battle for influence. Every single day each of us is subject to innumerable persuasion attempts from corporations, interest...

Business ethnography as a key strategy for international brands
From Putting People First

Business ethnography as a key strategy for international brands

Two interesting posts by Danish photographer and visual ethnographer Jacob Langvad Nilsson: Business ethnography as a key strategy for international brands When...

Book: Applying Anthropology in the Global Village
From Putting People First

Book: Applying Anthropology in the Global Village

Applying Anthropology in the Global Village Edited by Christina Wasson, Mary Odell Butler and Jacqueline Copeland-Carson Left Coast Press – November 2011 – 326...

Affective computing
From Putting People First

Affective computing

Chapter twelve of the interaction-design.org resource is now available in preview. It deals with what HCI specialists call

Jan Chipchase gets asked critical questions and responds
From Putting People First

Jan Chipchase gets asked critical questions and responds

During the Pop!Tech conference, well known design researcher Jan Chipchase gave a talk about his research work. In the panel session an audience member asked two...

Elizabeth Churchill on emotion
From Putting People First

Elizabeth Churchill on emotion

Elizabeth Churchill, Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research, was the speaker at the October 2011 Creative Mornings event in San Francisco. In her talk...

Tapping social networks for design research recruiting, by Jan Chipchase
From Putting People First

Tapping social networks for design research recruiting, by Jan Chipchase

Jan Chipchase thinks that 80 to 90% of current recruiting for design research/ethnographic studies (excluding focus groups) that is currently placed through recruiting...

More than money
From Putting People First

More than money

It’s increasingly clear that we live in collaborative times. Many of the most interesting innovations of recent years have at their heart ideas of sharing, bartering...

AI Will Change Our Relationship With Tech
From Putting People First

AI Will Change Our Relationship With Tech

Genevieve Bell, interaction and experience research director at Intel Labs, has published a guest post on the BBC website on how artificial intelligence will change...

Julian Bleecker: creating wily subversions
From Putting People First

Julian Bleecker: creating wily subversions

Steven Portigal interviews Julian Bleecker about the near future, design fiction and storytelling. Julian Bleecker is a designer, technologist and researcher in...

Lego is for girls
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Lego is for girls

In its new focus on products for girls, Lego is using quite a lot of ethnographic research: “To develop Lego Friends, Knudstorp relaunched the same extensive field...
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