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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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Inclusive Design
The Norwegian Design Council has published a new resource site about inclusive design, to inform and communicate how this approach can be used as a strategy for...
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The ethnography of robots
Heather Ford spoke with Stuart Geiger, PhD student at the UC Berkeley School of Information, about his emerging ideas about the ethnography of robots.
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Does corporate ethnography suck?
In this first piece, Sam Ladner examines the different temporal conceptions of ethnographic fieldwork in industry and academia: “Academics frequently criticize...
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State of Interaction Design: Diverging, by David Malouf
In anticipation of the upcoming IxDA Interaction12 Conference taking place in Dublin, Ireland February 1
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The shift from watching TV to experiencing TV
As more and more devices in your home get connected to the Internet, the user experience becomes increasingly important. The people at ReadWriteWeb announce that...
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The city as interface. Digital media and the urban public sphere
On 23 January 2012, Martijn de Waal defended his Ph.D. thesis
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The psychology of persuasion
All human societies are alive with the battle for influence. Every single day each of us is subject to innumerable persuasion attempts from corporations, interest...
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Business ethnography as a key strategy for international brands
Two interesting posts by Danish photographer and visual ethnographer Jacob Langvad Nilsson: Business ethnography as a key strategy for international brands When...
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Book: Applying Anthropology in the Global Village
Applying Anthropology in the Global Village Edited by Christina Wasson, Mary Odell Butler and Jacqueline Copeland-Carson Left Coast Press – November 2011 – 326...
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Affective computing
Chapter twelve of the interaction-design.org resource is now available in preview. It deals with what HCI specialists call
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Jan Chipchase gets asked critical questions and responds
During the Pop!Tech conference, well known design researcher Jan Chipchase gave a talk about his research work. In the panel session an audience member asked two...
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Elizabeth Churchill on emotion
Elizabeth Churchill, Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research, was the speaker at the October 2011 Creative Mornings event in San Francisco. In her talk...
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Tapping social networks for design research recruiting, by Jan Chipchase
Jan Chipchase thinks that 80 to 90% of current recruiting for design research/ethnographic studies (excluding focus groups) that is currently placed through recruiting...
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More than money
It’s increasingly clear that we live in collaborative times. Many of the most interesting innovations of recent years have at their heart ideas of sharing, bartering...
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AI Will Change Our Relationship With Tech
Genevieve Bell, interaction and experience research director at Intel Labs, has published a guest post on the BBC website on how artificial intelligence will change...
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Julian Bleecker: creating wily subversions
Steven Portigal interviews Julian Bleecker about the near future, design fiction and storytelling. Julian Bleecker is a designer, technologist and researcher in...
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Lego is for girls
In its new focus on products for girls, Lego is using quite a lot of ethnographic research: “To develop Lego Friends, Knudstorp relaunched the same extensive field...
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Study: Millennials prefer sharing over ownership
The idea of sharing things instead of owning them goes against everything we’ve been taught as a consumeristic society. Those who have spent their lives “keeping...
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Design for the marginalised millions
Reboot, a service design firm working in the fields of governance and international development, recently spent time with three marginalized groups in China
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