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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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A case study on inclusive design: ethnography and energy use
Energy usage and conservation can be a seemingly mundane part of an individual’s daily life on one hand, but a politically, ecologically, and economically critical...
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The Museum of Future Government Services
The Museum of Future Government Services, which in Dubai on the 10th of February at the UAE Government Summit, is an interactive design futures. The Museum explores...
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An anthropologist walks into a bar…
In 2006 a major European brewing company we’ll call BeerCo was faced with falling bar and pub sales and, despite muscular market research and competitive analysis...
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Data and design in innovative citizen experiences
The past decade has brought enormous and growing benefits to ordinary citizens through applications built on public data. Any release of data offers advantages...
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How to involve children in the design process?
What are the advantages and challenges inherent in working with children in the design process for creating games or apps? How do you stop them getting bored, and...
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Tricia Wang’s PhD dissertation — Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media
Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media by Tricia Wang Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, University of California, San Diego, 2013 Professor Richard...
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Adam Gopnik: “Why I don’t tweet”
Adam Gopnik, who writes for the New Yorker, has only ever sent nine tweets. In this long BBC article he explains why: ” Everyone insists that the technological...
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Move over product design, UX is the future
Rick Wise, CEO of Lippincott, says experience innovation is the next design imperative. Here are five things you can do this year to make that happen. “Today’s...
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There is no UX, there is only UX
Leisa Reichelt, Head of User Research at the Government Digital Service [GDS] in the UK Cabinet Office, argues that UX belongs everywhere and nowhere. That there...
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A review of Adam Greenfield’s Against the Smart City
Chris Carlsson started reading Adam Greenfield’s new book, Against the Smart City, “with the expectation that it would be a critical view of the ways our urban...
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How Big Brother’s going to peek into your connected home
The tech industry easily convinced the public to accept a myriad of free services for the price of some loss of privacy. But getting them to embrace the smart home...
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The Facebook ethnography kerfuffle
At the center of this kerfuffle is an anthropologist, Daniel Miller, his ethnographic research with teenagers in a small town in the UK, and a press report on a...
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How should we analyse our lives?
Alex “Sandy” Pentland, a professor of computational social sciences at MIT Media Lab and others like him are now convinced that the great academic divide between...
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New XD Magazine to be launched
XD is a quarterly print magazine, to be launched from Australia in April 2014, which showcases the work of experience design practitioners and researchers from...
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[Book] Junkyard Planet
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter Bloomsbury Publishing 2013, 304 pages [Amazon link - video] Abstract When you drop your...
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Why the resurgence of user-centred design matters for marketers
Marc Landsberg, CEO of socialdeviant, believes that marketing departments will increasingly invest in social platforms that are committed to users’ needs and interests...
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[Book] Practical Ethnography
Practical Ethnography: A Guide to Doing Ethnography in the Private Sector By Sam Ladner Left Coast Press April 2014, 200 pages [Publisher link - Amazon link] >...
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Interview with Leisa Reichelt, Head of User Research at UK Government Digital Services
Tricia Wang (see also previous post) just published her interview with Leisa Reichelt, Head of User Research at UK Government Digital Services. Tricia introduced...
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Tricia Wang: The Conceit of Oracles (talk notes)
Sociologist and ethnographer Tricia Wang has posted the notes of “The Conceit of Oracles: How we ended up in a world in which quantitative data is more valued than...
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