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Book: Human-Computer Interaction
From Putting People First

Book: Human-Computer Interaction

Human-Computer Interaction: Development Process (Series: Human Factors and Ergonomics) by Andrew Sears and Julie A. Jacko (Editors) CRC Press, March 2, 2009 Hardcover...

Creating one
From Putting People First

Creating one

Tyler Cowen (Wikipedia), a professor of economics at George Mason University, has written a thought-provoking piece for Fast Company, that is many ways highly complementary...

Design ethnography: strategy for visual communications
From Putting People First

Design ethnography: strategy for visual communications

Design ethnography: strategy for visual communications Leslie MacNeil Weber 2009 Graduate Thesis University of Washington Ethnography, a field of anthropological...

Financial Times podcasts on connected lives
From Putting People First

Financial Times podcasts on connected lives

The Financial Times analyses the implications of a connected planet in this series of roundtable discussions. Connected Lives: the debate – Part 1 Three experts...

Futures 2.0: rethinking the discipline
From Putting People First

Futures 2.0: rethinking the discipline

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang of The Institute for the Future has been working recently on a think-piece on what futures would look like if it started now: “If instead...

Power in People
From Putting People First

Power in People

The [UK] Government’s drive to reform public services by giving more power back to the citizen was accelerated yesterday, with the publication of a new study of...

Re-framing the problem: social interaction design
From Putting People First

Re-framing the problem: social interaction design

Social media expert and social interaction theorist Adrian Chan describes on Johnny Holland on what he means with ’social interaction design’ and on the role of...

Converting those who have no desire to be converted
From Putting People First

Converting those who have no desire to be converted

80% of the transactions of the UK Government are done with the bottom 25% of society and migrating services online offers great cost savings. Yet, 17 million Britons...

For Uganda
From Putting People First

For Uganda

In a country where people don’t have electricity, much less Internet access, the Grameen Foundation partners with Google to relay information through mobile phones...

The digital age of rights
From Putting People First

The digital age of rights

The digitally deprived have rights too, says BBC News columnist Bill Thompson, who is quite upset about a new French law: “If it is unacceptable to cut people off...

What you don
From Putting People First

What you don

Olga Morawczynski, a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh and has spent more than a year investigating customer adoption and usage in both urban and...

danah boyd on new habits in a connected world
From Putting People First

danah boyd on new habits in a connected world

danah boyd, a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society, got incensed at an Italian...

Personal transformations in the Internet Age
From Putting People First

Personal transformations in the Internet Age

In a BoingBoing guest blog, Marina Gorbis, executive director of the Institute for the Future, discusses the personal transformations everyone goes through as they...

Playful innovation and simplicity by Philips
From Putting People First

Playful innovation and simplicity by Philips

In an exploration into how games can add value to the innovation process, Philips Design has created

Nokia patents gestural phone controls
From Putting People First

Nokia patents gestural phone controls

A promotional video earlier today, and now a patent application — too much of a coincidence: “We know that Nokia is looking into more areas than just buttons and...

Nokia
From Putting People First

Nokia

The Nokia Conversations blog reports: Designing gestures to help you interact with your device in intuitive ways is a challenge that Nokia is grabbing with both...

Craiglist founder on the changing balance between authority and the crowd
From Putting People First

Craiglist founder on the changing balance between authority and the crowd

In a short video interview on Nokia’s IdeasProject Craigslist founder and customer service expert Craig Newmark says Internet connectivity is adjusting the balance...

Augmenting Venice
From Putting People First

Augmenting Venice

The MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory has just published a recent project about location-based media, focusing on how the future of mobile contents are related to...

Book: Mobile Communication
From Putting People First

Book: Mobile Communication

Mobile Communication by Rich Ling and Jonathan Donner Polity, 2009 200 pages With staggering swiftness, the mobile phone has become a fixture of daily life in almost...

Privacy requires security, not abstinence
From Putting People First

Privacy requires security, not abstinence

In a long essay on Technology Review, Simson Garfinkel reflects on what protecting an inalienable right might mean in the age of Facebook. “Privacy matters. Data...
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