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Student projects explore innovative cellphone uses in developing world

MIT News reports on how MIT students are exploring innovative cellphone uses in the developing world. “Several startup business ventures spawned by MIT students... Experientia
From Putting People First | November 2, 2009 at 05:23 PM

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Augmented Reality is overblown

Chris Dannen writes in Fast Company that Augmented Reality is overblown, and doesn’t expect apps like Layar to drastically change the way we live our everyday lives... Experientia
From Putting People First | November 2, 2009 at 05:05 PM

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As products become more interactive, the focus shifts to the psychological

“As products become more interactive, the focus shifts to the psychological,” argues Gentry Underwood, who focuses on social media and collaborative software at... Experientia
From Putting People First | November 2, 2009 at 04:17 PM

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Implementing digital TV in Italy: the other side of the digital revolution

Italy is in the process of switching to digital TV, and the implementation is pretty much a disaster, as far as I can tell from the reactions in the region where... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 31, 2009 at 07:07 PM

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Nov-Dec 2009 edition of Interactions magazine online

The November-December edition of Interactions Magazine is online and some articles are available without subscription. Unfortunately, the main menu page doesn’t... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 30, 2009 at 06:07 PM

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Experientia partner Michele Visciola on people-centred innovation as culture evolution

My business partner Michele Visciola, who is also the president of Experientia, has written an article entitled “People-centered innovation or culture evolution... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 30, 2009 at 06:05 PM

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The golden age of infinite music

John Harris has written an excellent article on the BBC News site on the social and cultural consequences of music being always available online in free and seemingly... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 30, 2009 at 05:43 PM

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Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels speaks at IxD Fall Summit

On 6 November Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels will be speaking at the IxD Fall Summit 2009 organised by the Ume Experientia
From Putting People First | October 30, 2009 at 05:35 PM

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Videos of keynote speeches at Seoul design research conference

Last week, the IASDR 2009 conference (International Association of Societies of Design Research) took place in Seoul, South Korea, and all videos of the keynote... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 30, 2009 at 12:41 PM

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Migropolis: Venice /Atlas of a Global Situation

In winter 2006, under the aegis of philosopher Wolfgang Scheppe, a collective of students from theIUAV University in Venice (including Experientia collaborator... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 29, 2009 at 11:53 AM

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Computerworld New Zealand on user-centred web design

Computerworld New Zealand introduces user-centred web design. Introducing user-centred web design The first article in this series introduces the idea of User-Centred... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 29, 2009 at 11:15 AM

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A reflection on energy efficiency and behaviour

Irene Cassarino, an Experientia collaborator, reports on the First European Conference on Energy Efficiency and Behaviour, which took place in Maastricht last week... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 27, 2009 at 04:38 PM

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Arianna Huffington and Peter Thiel on the digital revolution

And still two more video rushes on the site of Digital Revolution. Arianna Huffington interview – USA Arianna Huffington is the co-founder of the influential news... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 27, 2009 at 11:27 AM

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Tim Berners-Lee and Einar Kvaran on the digital revolution

More video rushes on the site of Digital Revolution (working title), an open source documentary, due for transmission on BBC Two in 2010, that will take stock of... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 27, 2009 at 10:41 AM

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A Synchronicity, a book by Julian Bleecker and Nicholas Nova

A synchronicity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing by Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova Available as a print-on-demand book from lulu.com. Click here... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 27, 2009 at 07:15 AM

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Data mines and ideas of time

The boys at design consultancy BERG are prolific this week: Toiling in the data-mines: what data exploration feels like by Tom Armitage “There are several aspects... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 27, 2009 at 06:58 AM

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Stop your search engines

Peggy Orenstein forced herself offline, and reflects in the New York Times Magazine whether this is the path to true knowledge: “Not long ago, I started an experiment... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 26, 2009 at 06:31 AM

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Memory and forgetting in the digital age

Yadin Dudai writes in the New Scientist on two books on memory and forgetting in the digital age — Total Recall: How the e-memory revolution will change everything... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 26, 2009 at 06:16 AM

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The mad dash toward touch technology

True innovators need to know as much about when, why, and how not to use trendy technology as when to use it, says Microsoft Research principal scientist Bill Buxton... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 22, 2009 at 10:00 AM

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Human behavior: the key to future tech developments

As trained observers of how people in a society live, ethnographers can help companies figure out what people need and then work with designers to meet those needs... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 22, 2009 at 06:01 AM