Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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 …
From Putting People First
Open government requires having the end user in mind
Simply making data available online isn’t enough – it needs to be created with the end user in mind, writes Jed Miller in The Guardian. “But online or off, the...
From Putting People First
Left to our own devices
Our well-being centers on the meaningfulness of our relationships: our intimate ties, our associations with a larger circle of people, and our sense of interconnectivity...
From Putting People First
Taschen publishes infographics by Experientia collaborator
The infographics “What Are InfoVis And DataVis About?”, designed by Experientia collaborator Eloisa Paola Fontana, was selected and published in the book “Information...
From Putting People First
Video of Experientia talk at Moleskine’s “Notes for the Future” event
There are endless choices when it comes to recording and sharing our ideas. Reliable analog tools are converging with innovations in technology to produce new ways...
From Putting People First
World Economic Forum reports on personal data focus on trust, privacy and framework
The World Economic Forum has released three new reports on strengthening trust, transparency and privacy in personal data usage. Rethinking Personal Data: A New...
From Putting People First
Food safety and older people: the Kitchen Life ethnographic study
Foodborne illness is a major public health problem in the UK. Recent increases in cases of listeriosis in older people have focused attention on consumer food-related...
From Putting People First
People use phablets differently than smartphones and tablets
A new study from Opera Mediaworks found that people use these larger-screen devices — which combine a smartphone’s instant access to information with the tablet...
From Putting People First
Anthropologists as scholarly hipsters
Can looking at the hipster tell us something about the anthropologist and the academy? Alex Posecznick (anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania) explores...
From Putting People First
Mayo Clinic study highlights potential of mobile technology to transfer patient rehabilitation
In a recent study out of the Mayo Clinic (reported on by iMedicalApps), patients undergoing cardiac rehabilitation post-MI were offered the opportunity to use an...
From Putting People First
[Book] Handbook of Anthropology in Business
Handbook of Anthropology in Business Editors: Rita M. Denny and Patricia L. Sunderland Left Coast Press 752 pp. / May, 2014 In recent years announcements of the...
From Putting People First
New research on the use of tablets in schools
NAACE, a UK association of educators, technologists and policy makers who share a vision for the role of technology in advancing education, has published a number...
From Putting People First
Aiming for open source technology that is gorgeous and provides great UX
Designer and social entrepreneur Aral Balkan believes it is time to build an alternate future where we own our own tools, services, and data. And to do this we...
From Putting People First
Looking ahead in automotive UX with Mercedes
Steve Tengler recently sat down the user experience folks at Mercedes’ Research and Development Center in Sunnyvale, California, and interviewed Paolo Malabuyo...
From Putting People First
The challenge of the car interface
Three articles – all published on Medium – confront the challenge of designing an effective car user interface: The State of In-Car UX by Geoff Teehan, Teehan+Lax...
From Putting People First
Why VC firms are snapping up designers
Irene Au, former head of Google’s User Interaction Team, is the latest designer to make her way to a venture capital firm. Here’s why VCs are so hot for designers...
From Putting People First
There’s a backlash against nudging – but it was never meant to solve every problem
Sceptics fail to grasp that this is a strategy that improves lives while treating citizens with dignity – unlike coercion, argues Cass Sunstein. It is true that...
From Putting People First
What if doctors could prescribe behavior change?
Doctors have known for decades that, in order to prevent disease or its complications, they were going to have to get into people’s living rooms and convince them...
From Putting People First
My digital shadow
The surveillance program PRISM by the US secret service NSA has reminded us that all of our activities online may be monitored without giving us the chance to understand...
From Putting People First
The Qualified Self and Affective Sensing
The people at frog design have been exploring sensing technologies and their impact on the human experience. Two interesting articles are the result: The Qualified...
From Putting People First