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Jane Wakefield, BBC technology reporter, explores how the social experience of real shopping can help improve web retail, and how the online social shopping experience... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 7, 2011 at 11:01 AM

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Report: Behaviour Change and Energy Use

The Behavioural Insight Team of David Cameron’s Cabinet Office – widely known as the ‘nudge unit‘, has published the repor, Behaviour Change and Energy Use, setting... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 7, 2011 at 08:28 AM

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Web 3.0 is all about social personalisation

Forget Web 2.0. During a panel on social media at the recent Wharton Global Alumni Forum, industry experts argued that we are now in a “third wave” of disruption... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 7, 2011 at 08:13 AM

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Niti Bhan on emerging markets tech event in East Africa

Niti Bhan, the emerging markets strategy specialist, went to Kenya to participate in the Pivot 25 conference and wrote this guest contribution on her experience... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 6, 2011 at 03:56 PM

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How computers can cure cultural diabetes

Peter Lunenfeld (wikipedia), professor in the Design | Media Arts department at UCLA, argues in a New Scientist op-ed piece for the importance of what he calls... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 6, 2011 at 08:06 AM

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Alone together

MIT technology and society specialist Professor Sherry Turkle presents – during a June 1 talk at the RSA in London – the results of a fifteen year exploration of... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 6, 2011 at 07:36 AM

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The iPad as support for people with disabilities

The Apple tablet is helping people with disabilities by reading e-mails, voicing directions, and zooming in on text. “Apple has added features that make the iPhone... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 6, 2011 at 07:24 AM

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For ebook devotees, reading is a whole new experience

Matt Frassica asks Experientia
From Putting People First | July 4, 2011 at 12:07 PM

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For ebook devotees, reading is a whole new experience

Matt Frassica asks — in The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal (republished in USA Today) — what the increasing popularity of e-reader devices means for the experience... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 3, 2011 at 08:30 AM

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Help us say no to Italian internet censorship

AGCOM, Italy’s independent and autonomous administrative Authority for Communication Guarantees, is about to decide (on July 5) to controversially appoint itself... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 2, 2011 at 09:07 PM

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The Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

Donald Norman alerts us – with strong recommendation – to check out the Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction now being assembled by Mads Soegaard and the... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 2, 2011 at 10:22 AM

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How print design is the future of interaction

Mike Kruzeniski is Creative Director at Microsoft, in the Windows Phone design studio, currently leading the Windows Phone Apps Design team. Kruzeniski gave a talk... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 2, 2011 at 10:02 AM

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Experientia teams with Innovhub, to make its services available to Milan SMEs at 50% of the cost

Innovhub, the innovation agency of the Milan Chamber of Commerce, has selected the international user experience design consultancy Experientia to help Milan-based... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 1, 2011 at 11:09 AM

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Digital DIY

The Guardian reports on a study by an “exasperated academic” (Philip Ely, head of the business and community school at the University for the Creative Arts, and... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 29, 2011 at 02:15 PM

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Europe split in happiness survey

In one of the biggest surveys of happiness carried out in the aftermath of the economic crisis, the vast majority of people in Britain, France and Italy have little... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 29, 2011 at 01:01 PM

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Achieving a sense of home for people who travel extensively

One of the people presenting at the DPPI conference in Milan last week was Aviaja Borup Lynggaard, an industrial Ph.D. scholar at Bang & Olufsen (B&O), attached... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 28, 2011 at 10:03 AM

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Toyota and CIID open a Window to the World

Imagine when a journey from A to B is no longer routine, as your car in the near-future encourages a sense of play, exploration and learning. This is the image... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 28, 2011 at 07:46 AM

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Studying interaction design in Switzerland

A new master in interaction design will start in September in Switzerland — with some teaching support from Experientia — and a few places are still available.... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 27, 2011 at 12:48 PM

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Book: Ethnographies of the Videogame

Ethnographies of the Videogame: Gender, Narrative and Praxis by Helen Thornham, City University London, UK Ethnographies of the Videogame Ashgate, July 2011, 218... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 27, 2011 at 08:29 AM

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Enchanted Objects: The next wave of the web

David Rose (LinkedIn), CEO of Vitality (where he works on healthy behavior change) and lecturer at MIT Media Lab (and former CEO of Ambient Devices), gave a talk... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 26, 2011 at 01:39 PM