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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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Charles Leadbeater and Tim Berners-Lee on the digital revolution
Digital Revolution (working title) is an open source documentary, due for transmission on BBC Two in 2010, that will take stock of 20 years of change brought about...
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Microsoft demos multi-touch enabled mice concepts
Microsoft is exploring the concept of multi-touch mice, a new research paper reveals. The paper is being presented today as part of the User Interface Software...
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How to visualise energy savings
Kevin Anderson reports in The Guardian on how a new generation of monitors can generate data about your energy use and help you cut your costs and carbon. “These...
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The shift from human-centered to resource-centered design
Eric Wilmot writes on Greener Design on how to design for a post-consumption society. And an excellent article it is. “The current interpretation of human-centered...
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Donald Norman on co-creation as a
Donald Norman recently gave a keynote address at the “21st Century Transmedia Innovation Symposium” in Seoul, Korea. “Normal dictionaries do not have the word ‘transmedia...
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Panoremo, a tool to assess the emotional experience of environments
As part of his Design for Interaction MSc. at the TU Delft, David G
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Touchpoint Issue 2
The second issue of Touchpoint, the sdn’s Service Design Journal, is out. Entitled “Health and Service Design”, this brand-new issue features articles of Service...
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The user experience of smart phones
Several articles on the smart phone user experience: Getting emotional about mobile phones A nationwide study of over 3000 people has found that there is a direct...
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Herkko Hietanen: The social future of television
Herkko Hietanen of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology tells his audience at the Berkman Center that
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Deconstructing mobiles for development
Katrin Verclas of MobileActive is launching a new series on “deconstructing mobiles for development”. Mobile tech as a tool for social development is making the...
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Exploring little worlds with Nokia
The Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design is on a roll. After an intensive workshop with Intel (featured in Worldchanging), now they embarked on an exploration...
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Design and gender: going beyond shrink it and pink it
Femme Den is a small internal cadre of designers of Smart Design — the company that was responsible for the OXO Good Grips kitchen tools and the Flip Mini Digital...
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The city is a battlesuit for surviving the future
Matt Jones, design director at Berg in London, has published a piece in Future Metro which Bruce Sterling “would like to call ‘the greatest design-fiction writing...
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Intel describes TV of the future
The world’s biggest chip maker predicts that by 2015 there will be 12 billion devices capable of connecting to 500 billion hours of TV and video content. The audience...
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Do you want that on your permanent record?
In his Wall Street Journal De Gustibus column, Eric Felten describes Total Recall, a Microsoft project that will archive every detail of our daily lives. “A certain...
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Changing Behaviour
Changing Behaviour is a project that aims to support change in energy use and energy services. They do so by applying social research on technological change to...
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Users
The Nordic Innovation Centre just published a report on the role of user-driven innovation in the growing Nordic sports equipment industry. Not only on how users...
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Yahoo looks to improve search experience
The Mercury News reports on how Yahoo believes it can build its search audience by focusing on the user “experience,” rather than viewing search as a raw data query...
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