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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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The moral bankruptcy of Current TV - a personal comment
Until recently, I liked Current TV and its Vanguard journalism group very much. The reporting from such cities as Lagos, Nigeria was superb. I liked their mixture...
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Human-centred design for sustainable development on an urban scale
The built environment is now the largest negative factor in the stability of ecosystems and the climate. As populations become increasingly urbanized, the evolution...
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Johanna Brewer about ethnography and design
Nicolas Nova reports on a lecture by Johanna Brewer about “What can ethnography do for technology?” Brewer, who is a PhD candidate in the Informatics department...
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Business Innovation Factory launches Student Experience Lab
The non-profit Business Innovation Factory (BIF) yesterday launched a new laboratory to enable innovation in higher education. The lab will support the design of...
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Bringing the everyday life of people into design
“Bringing the everyday life of people into design” is the title of a doctoral dissertation that Froukje Sleeswijk Visser is defending today to obtain her doctoral...
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Gemalto, Microsoft, Nokia and Philips team up to advance
At the Future of the Internet conference in Prague today, Gemalto, Microsoft, Nokia and Philips announced a new initiative that will address the fundamental societal...
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Book: Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing
Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: The next-generation Internet’s impact on business, governance and social interaction J.D. Lasica The Aspen Institute, 2009...
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Journal of Business Strategy on design innovation
A special issue of Journal of Business Strategy on
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Design and ethnography at a ubiquitous computing conference
One of the sessions at UbiComp 2008, the Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous computing (Seoul, Korea), was devoted to design and ethnography. The four...
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Daniel Kaplan
Daniel Kaplan, CEO of the French Next-Generation Internet Foundation (FING) and one of the driving forces behind the upcoming LIFT conference in Marseilles, France...
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The wisdom of community
In an article on A List Apart, Derek Powazek explores what it means to connect the ideas of James Surowiecki, expressed in his book The Wisdom of Crowds, to the...
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In cellphone, India reveals an essence
Anand Giridharadas, South Asia correspondent at International Herald Tribune, describes what makes the cellphone special in India, and what it means for democracy...
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Inspiring articles by Elizabeth Churchill of Yahoo! Research
If you like the writings by the highly original Elizabeth Churchill, a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research in charge of the Internet Experiences Group...
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Most Interaction09 conference videos now online
Most of the videos of the Interaction09 conference, that took place this February in Vancouver, Canada, are now available online (see also here). Here is a personal...
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The poverty of user-centered design
Andrew Dillon, dean of the School of Information (”iSchool”) at the University of Texas, writes on his blog InfoMatters that he finds “the term
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User-centred approach drives the design of Intel
In December last year, Intel design researcher Daria Loi made a very strong presentation at the UPA Europe conference showing how people in different cultures “keep...
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Cisco CTO: The future of collaboration will be all about user experience
In a series of predictions on the future of collaboration, Padmasree Warrior, the chief technology officer of Cisco Systems, points out that it’s the user experience...
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Taking my community
The latest issue of Vodafone’s Receiver Magazine is entitled “Seizing the Moment”: “Bending and transcending the constraints of time and space has gotten easy for...
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As consumers
Over the past few months, frog design’s Robert Fabricant has been “busy riling up the design community with a theory that designers are now in the ‘behavior business’”...
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