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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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Philips Design: From data to meaning for people
On October 22nd, 2012, Philips Design organized a special seminar and workshop to explore how businesses can innovate by translating ‘Big Data’ into value for people...
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NEXT Service Design videos
NEXT Service Design is the European conference for designing digital services, which took place on 8 October in Berlin. It focuses on design methods including design...
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The Slow Revolution
The last ten years has seen a burgeoning of the Slow Movement in all aspects of life from management, travel and education to science and work. On 4 October, the...
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Manuel Castells on the rise of alternative economic cultures
Prof Manuel Castells is regarded as one of the most-cited sociologists in the world. When most of us were still struggling to connect our modems in the 1990s, the...
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Book: Meta Products – Building the Internet of Things
Meta Products Meaningful Design For Our Connected World by Wimer Hazenberg and Menno Huisman BIS Publishers, 160 pages 2012 Meta Products discusses the rise of...
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Designing products for value
By encouraging more focused collaboration among multiple functional groups (notably marketing and sales, operations, engineering/R&D, and procurement), these leaders...
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Google and the UX challenge of augmented reality
The new Google FieldTrip app probes the question: What digital information do you want to see overlaid on the physical world? A challenge that Bruce Sterling describes...
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Book: Configuring the Networked Self
Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice by July E. Cohen Yale University Press, 2012 352 pages Free pdf version | Amazon link...
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How the Kenyan Base of the Pyramid uses their mobile phone
In order to understand mobile phone usage at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) in Kenya, iHub Research and Research Solutions Africa conducted a 6-month study, funded...
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Want proof that market fit is everything? Test your app in the slums of Sao Paulo
For the Stanford-educated founders of Emprego Ligado, creating a successful app in Brazil required dismantling every assumption about the target audience. Emprego...
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Core77 report on the Design Research Conference
A few days before the EPIC conference in Savannah, Chicago’s IIT Institute of Design organised and hosted its yearly Design Research conference. Although no videos...
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How Xerox uses analytics, big data and ethnography to help government solve “big problems”
Through the application of analytics to Big Data, as well as ethnography — the design and implementation of qualitative field studies to observe cultural patterns...
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Smartphone ethnography apps
The Qualitative Report website contains a very hard to find but highly recommended page on smartphone ethnography apps (or, as they call it, “Mobile and Cloud Qualitative...
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EPIC conference videos online
Most of the videos of this week’s EPIC Conference, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design [SCAD], are now online. EPIC, which stands for Ethnographic...
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Lugano conference on digital experiences in smart cities
On Saturday 27 October, the Italian-speaking Swiss city of Lugano will host the 4th edition of the UXconference. The 2012 edition of the conference, which is organised...
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Slow HCI
The latest issue of Interfaces, the quarterly magazine of the Interaction Specialist Group of the BCS, the British chartered institute for IT, is devoted to Slow...
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Spacebrew, an open source toolkit for creating interactive spaces
Spacebrew is a new software – currently in beta release – for prototyping and producing interactive spaces. It was developed by the Interaction Lab at the Rockwell...
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Daniel Bor: ‘It’s just a gut instinct, but Blink got it wrong’
Daniel Bor is a cognitive neuro-scientist at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, and author of The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science...
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The Club of Helsinki – co-creation of urban development projects
The Club of Helsinki is a non-profit organization that offer possibilities to co-create urban development projects that prototype new integrated and sustainable...
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