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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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Flow in design
Dana Chisnell reports on the importance of flow in UX design. Flow comes from focused attention, deep engagement, a feeling of mastering a challenge. The outside...
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The existential challenges of human-robot interaction
How will we react when a loyal humanoid robot that has served us for years suddenly fails? Will we genuinely grieve for no-longer working bots that have accompanied...
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Five myths about social media
Ramesh Srinivasan methodically breaks down five ‘myths’ about social media in this Washington Post article: Here are his myths (which few in the UX community would...
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New Master in UX in Rome, Italy
The La Sapienza University in Rome is organising the first User Experience Master for students who already have a previous degree. Although a highly laudable initiative...
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Investigating the experience of love for products
“Shoes, cars and other love stories: Investigating the experience of love for products is the title of the doctoral dissertation (and a book!) by Beatriz Russo...
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PressPausePlay, a film about hope, fear and digital culture
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But...
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Truth, lies and the internet
The internet is the greatest source of information for people living in the UK today. But the amount of material available at the click of a mouse can be both liberating...
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UX: old wine in new bottles?
Finnish researchers Antti Oulasvirta, Pertti Saariluoma, Rebekah Rousi and Jaana Leikas discuss replacing using intuitive notions of emotions with systematic psychological...
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Low2No Camp: entrepreneurial ideas to activate Low2No vision
Article by Experientia collaborator Irene Cassarino, with additional input from Jan-Christoph Zoels. How do you create community services and business models...
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From mass consumerism to mass change: Hope for sustainable consumption
In an article for Shareable, Caren Holzman presents trends that signal “a reversal in the way that consumers value and use products and services”: “A global culture...
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Invigorating education with technology
Techcrunch reports on a recent set of rapid-fire presentations from Imagine K12, an incubator for education-related startups. On the one hand, the innovation taking...
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The end of motoring
Highly recommended read in The Guardian on the end of the golden age of motoring (or for non-Brits: car travel): “The most radical change [according to German entrepreneur...
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Khoi Vinh reflects on the fact (and the user experience) that almost everything on all of his computers and all of his mobile devices can only be accessed with...
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Book: Mobile First
Mobile First Luke Wroblewski A Book Apart October 2011 Abstract Our industry
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Reflections on the internet of things and yet another revolution
The internet of things and yet another revolution The “internet of things” is viewed as the next big thing, but when will it allow people to create their own stuff...
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BBC Viewpoint: Anthropology meets technology
Intel’s corporate anthropologist Genevieve Bell has written an elegant introductory article for the BBC site on the role of anthropology in the corporation – particularly...
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Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?
Hivos (The Netherlands) and the Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India) have consolidated their three year knowledge inquiry into the field of youth,...
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Green markets must be created by you
Tuuli Kaskinen and Roope Mokka, researchers at Demos Helsinki, argue in an essay that we need more than mere sustainable versions of everyday products: we need...
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Designing social tools around user interests
The key to designing social media well lies in designing it for a user
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