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European Commission launches public consultation on design as a driver of user-centred innovation

Yesterday, the European Commission launched a public consultation on design and innovation on the basis of a recent Commission staff working document on “Design... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 25, 2009 at 07:12 PM

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What on Earth are Anthropologists Doing Playing With Mobile Phones?

What on earth are anthropologists doing playing with mobile phones, asks Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net and creator of FrontlineSMS. “It’s widely recognised... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 23, 2009 at 12:43 PM

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How good is the mobile net experience

BBC technology reporter Maggie Shiels reflects on the quality of the mobile net experience. The article contains many quotes from industry representatives, but... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM

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Nokia

Nokia’s IdeasProject site contains this week a video interview with Don Tapscott, and four feature articles that integrate some of the ideas presented thus far... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 20, 2009 at 09:00 AM

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AP published an interview with Julie Larson-Green, head of Windows Experience and in charge of Windows 7, the next version of Windows for PCs. “The primary things... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 20, 2009 at 06:07 AM

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Paper: Mobile phone access and usage in Africa

Research ICT Africa!, a network of universities and research institutions from 19 African countries, has a site with some interesting research papers and presentations... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 19, 2009 at 02:43 PM

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Let them eat tweets

Virginia Heffernan writes in the New York Times Magazine on why Twitter is a trap. “These worries started to surface for me last month, when Bruce Sterling, the... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 18, 2009 at 07:03 AM

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Global usability organisation embraces design

In December last year, the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) organised its first European conference in Turin, Italy, with a focus on the connection between... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 17, 2009 at 11:21 AM

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Persuasive design for sustainability

Jeremy Faludi has compiled — in an article for Core77 00 a synthesis of the work of Stanford lecturer and researcher BJ Fogg on the field of persuasive design,... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 17, 2009 at 09:13 AM

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Three environmental discourses in human-computer interaction

Elizabeth Goodman of the UC Berkeley School of Information made a presentation on the past and future of environmental issues and HCI at the recent CHI conference... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 17, 2009 at 08:58 AM

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Gathering User Ideas

Nokia’s IdeasProject website is intriguing. A content focused platform focused on high level discourse, it contains interviews with thought leaders in communications... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 15, 2009 at 11:22 AM

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Organic interfaces workshop at CHI 2009

Carla Diana reports on Core77 at length about the highly conceptual CHI presentation/panel “Eek! A Mouse! Organic User Interfaces: Tangible, Transitive Materials... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 15, 2009 at 05:23 AM

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Data as seductive material

Matt Jones (of Dopplr) gave a talk recently on seduction at the Sensing and Sensuality conference at the Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden. It’s all about seductive... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 14, 2009 at 08:09 PM

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UCL London is starting a new MA in Digital Anthropology

UCL (which is the abbreviation for “University College London” although you have to look at the site’s footer to find out) is starting a new MA in Digital Anthropology... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 14, 2009 at 07:32 PM

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Thinking about the future of news

The current paradigm of creating of serious news stories — through newspapers and big media — is under threat. Here is a haul of background on the matter (from... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 13, 2009 at 07:01 AM

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LIFT France and I Realize Italy

Last month I announced that the next LIFT conference would take place in Marseilles, France on 18-20 June this year. Entrepreneurs, researchers, artists, designers... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 11, 2009 at 04:01 PM

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Africa perspective on the role of mobile technologies in fostering social and economic development

Last week, the W3C Mobile Web Initiative organised a workshop on the “Africa Perspective on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development” in... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 11, 2009 at 03:18 PM

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IT viewed through a moral prism

An EU-wide study of emerging technologies led by Leicester Experientia
From Putting People First | April 11, 2009 at 11:02 AM

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Bill Buxton on design and return on experience

Canadian designer and computer scientist Bill Buxton is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Last month Bill gave a good 20-min keynote at Mix09 that kicked... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 10, 2009 at 08:20 AM

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Healthcare organisations are throwing mobile technology at problems without fully considering the underlying business processes or the working conditions of the... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 10, 2009 at 07:45 AM