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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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Networked objects session at Lift Asia 2009 conference
Nicolas Nova reports on the
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Augmented reality gets off to a wobbly start
The New Scientist reviews the current state of Augmented Reality and is a bit concerned: “While some who back the technology think its time has now come, after...
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Information overload
Too many emails, texts and tweets can lead to rising anxiety, lower intelligence
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O2 launches
O2 is launching a new mobile phone network which it has dubbed as the first
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Enhancing user interaction with first person user interface
Luke Wroblewski, an internationally recognized Web thought leader and Senior Director of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc., provides a comprehensive overview...
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Interfaces Magazine interviews Donald Norman
The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), contains...
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Two new user experience communities
Louis Rosenfeld alerted me to two new Ning-based community sites that Rosenfeld Media authors recently started: Design for Care compiles methods, results, case...
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Using design thinking at Coca-Cola
Fast Company profiles David Butler, the man who is “responsible for how they think and what they do with design at The Coca-Cola Company.” “Butler oversees a team...
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The dirty little secret about the
Sarah Perez criticises on ReadWriteWeb the common view on crowdsourcing: “Recent research by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) professor Vassilis Kostakos pokes...
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Mobiles offer lifelines in Africa
Ken Banks, creator of FrontlineSMS, wrote a guest piece for BBC News. His main claim: “If you want to see how east Africa may respond to the arrival of high-speed...
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Worldchanging interview: Vinay Venkatraman on interaction design
Vinay Venkatraman, an interaction designer, is one of a rapidly expanding group of scholars and professionals around the world working to define the way our stuff...
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The use of mobile phones in education in developing countries
The World Bank is embarking on a new study investigating issues related to the use of mobile phones in education in developing countries. “The study is intended...
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Peer pressure and other pitches
Michael Sanserino reports in the Wall Street Journal on the latest applications of insights in behavioural economics: “More businesses are using behavioral economics...
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New EU discussion paper and consultation: Fostering user-driven innovation through clusters
“Involving users in the innovation process seems to be increasingly recognised as an important challenge not only for enterprises, but also for innovation support...
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Success stories in design management
An article published by the European Commission’s Enterprise & Industry department: “Design management is a key driver of innovation and competitiveness and the...
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Grameen Foundation: mHealth ethnography report
One of the projects of AppLab, the application laboratory of the Grameen Foundation, is focused on mobile technology for community health (MoTeCH) in Ghana: “Grameen...
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Mayo Clinic
This week the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation hosted Transform, a collaborative symposium on innovations in health care experience and delivery. The symposium...
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