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UCI to lead national social computing research center, led by Paul Dourish

UC Irvine will anchor a new $12.5 million, Intel-funded research center that applies social science and humanities to the design and analysis of digital information... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 27, 2012 at 08:33 AM

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Book: Design and Anthropology

Design and Anthropology Edited by Wendy Gunn, University of Southern Denmark and Jared Donovan, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Ashgate, 2012 Hardcover... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 26, 2012 at 02:40 PM

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Secrets about human behavior as the basis of future massive enterprises

Nir Eyal, lecturer in marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, believes secrets about human behavior, which provide insights into the way people act... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 26, 2012 at 02:23 PM

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Dan Ariely on why we lie, cheat, go to prison and eat cake

Dan Ariely is a professor of behavioral economics and psychology at Duke University and the author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 26, 2012 at 10:23 AM

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Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman Studying Hacker Culture

As a grad student in anthropology, Gabriella Coleman was warned that studying the culture of computer hackers would make it hard to get a job teaching in a university... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 22, 2012 at 03:26 PM

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The Public Domain: Surveillance in Everyday Life

People create profiles on social network sites and Twitter accounts against the background of an audience. This paper by Alice Marwick argues that closely examining... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 21, 2012 at 03:56 PM

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Context is key to making computers better conversationalists

When communicating, context is king. A breakthrough in modelling context in human communication could make computers better conversationalists, according to cognitive... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 21, 2012 at 03:06 PM

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Nathan Shedroff on the past and future of experience design

Nathan Shedroff (bio), the pioneer in Experience Design, Interaction Design and Information Design, and the chair of the MBA in Design Strategy at California College... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 20, 2012 at 03:51 PM

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Spaniards turn to barter, alternative banks to alleviate economic pain

Spanish institutions are in no shape to help struggling Spaniards, so they’re turning to alternative banks and ways of exchanging goods to get by, reports Andr Experientia
From Putting People First | June 20, 2012 at 11:06 AM

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What Facebook knows

Deep inside the company, a team of social scientists is hunting for unprecedented insights about human behaviour, reports Tom Simonite, Technology Review’s senior... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 16, 2012 at 03:01 PM

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The user experience of Windows 8

Windows 8 and the art of UX compromise by Ryan Bell, user interface software team lead at EffectiveUI Microsoft is cleverly promoting Windows 8 with the tagline... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 16, 2012 at 07:47 AM

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Participatory design in action at Experientia

As a people-centred design company, Experientia Experientia
From Putting People First | June 15, 2012 at 08:59 AM

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Book: Connected Health

Connected Health: How mobile phones, cloud, and big data will reinvent healthcare by Jody Ranck, DrPH GigaOm Books, June 2012 170 pages [Amazon Kindle edition]... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 15, 2012 at 08:19 AM

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Who

Method principal Reuben Steiger argues that companies need to start thinking about the holistic relationship between their brands, products, and services. “Crafting... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 13, 2012 at 04:26 PM

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SAP on visualising the future

As visual analytics architect in SAP’s User Experience team, John Armitage is responsible for creating designs and design concepts for SAP’s analytics products.... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 13, 2012 at 04:21 PM

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A social network built around giving

Model and actress Lily Cole’s social network, Impossible, has been designed for users to meet and help each other. Users post requests (say, “I wish to have a haircut”)... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 12, 2012 at 02:32 PM

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Augmented sensing through smartphones

So how are we doing to augment our senses through digital technologies? Here are some of the products currently on the market that allow people to augment their... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 12, 2012 at 02:15 PM

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Charles Leadbeater: A curriculum for the Next Billion

Immediately a second post on writing done by Charles Leadbeater. Here he asks if we were to think of the future consumers of the developing world (whose income... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 11, 2012 at 10:46 AM

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Charles Leadbeater: Why cities need to be hospitable rather than smart

Guimar Experientia
From Putting People First | June 11, 2012 at 10:40 AM

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A huge chapter on

The people of the Interaction-Design.org Foundation have given us (and you) preview access to “Socio-Technical Systems Design”, the 24th chapter of the “Encyclopedia... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 11, 2012 at 08:14 AM