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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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How collaborating with patients improves hospital care
The Guardian reports on how a new UK project where patients and NHS staff work together to improve services shows that even small changes can have a big impact...
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The user experience of enterprise technology
Most big businesses globally are locked into some kind of reliance on enterprise technology. Unfortunately such systems are not only fiendishly difficult to install...
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De l’importance de l’ethnographie appliquée aux technologies
For once a post in French! Hubert Guillaud of InternetActu describes some examples – mostly from the recent EPIC conference – of the great contribution of ethnography...
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Campaign: Mobile card set of facilitation and training techniques
Are you a trainer? Do you facilitate meetings? Help the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (an Experientia client) to develop...
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Designers Toolkit: Capturing research | Using video in research
Lauren Ruiz of Cooper in San Francisco has published two new instalments of the Designers Toolkit: A Primer On Capturing Research How you choose to conduct and...
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Experientia’s mini-doc for the UN’s International Labour Organization
The first destination: The path to decent work in rural economies Experientia’s short documentary for the UN’s International Labour Organization It’s always a pleasure...
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Has privacy become a luxury good?
Julia Angwin, a senior reporter at ProPublica, writes in the New York Times about how it takes a lot of money and time to avoid hackers and data miners. “In our...
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Reflecting on anthropology and design
A few weeks back I wrote that Rachel Carmen Ceasar (@rceasara) is running a short series on Savage Minds that features interviews with design researchers, ethnographic...
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[Book] The Moment of Clarity
The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems by Christian Madsbjerg, Mikkel Rasmussen Harvard Business Review Press...
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[Book] The City as Interface
The City as Interface How New Media Are Changing the City By Martijn de Waal nai010 Publishers 2014, 208 pages Digital and mobile media are changing the way urban...
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What the tech business hasn’t yet grasped about human nature
Genevieve Bell, Intel’s in-house anthropologist, sees constants in our behavior that could mean big bucks for businesses that find a way to capitalize on them....
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Will your clothing spy on you?
In his lecture “The Ethicist’s and the Lawyer’s New Clothes: The Law and Ethics of Smart Clothes,” I. Glenn Cohen, Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School, warns...
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Videos of Day 3 of Interaction14 conference
Is there a Language of Interaction Design [Not yet online] Keynote by Gillian Crampton Smith, Designer/Educator, IUAV University of Venice > Full description Bridging...
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Videos of Day 2 of Interaction14 conference
Body Languages of Interaction Design [38:53] Keynote by Irene Au Design is both art and science, yet while we teach methods and practices for hard design skills...
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Videos of Day 1 of Interaction14 conference
Languaging reality, dialogue and interaction [41:05] Keynote by Klaus Krippendorff, Emeritus Professor of Communication at The Annenberg School for Communication...
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The anthropology of globalization / The ethnography of finance
Keith Hart is Professor of Economic Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Goldsmith’s,...
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anthropology + design: nicolas nova
Rachel Carmen Ceasar (@rceasara) is a doctoral candidate in the Joint Medical Anthropology Program at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco (California, USA). She writes...
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An ethnography of the Brixton Pound
Mario Campana (@mariocampana), a PhD student at City University London’s Cass Business School, researches the growing trend of local currencies – of which there...
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Interview with man at the heart of Facebook ethnography kerfuffle
Tricia Wang interviewed Daniel Miller, the anthropologist at the heart of the Facebook ethnography kerfuffle, and published the transcript on EthnographyMatters...
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