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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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Niti Bhan on emerging markets tech event in East Africa
Niti Bhan, the emerging markets strategy specialist, went to Kenya to participate in the Pivot 25 conference and wrote this guest contribution on her experience...
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How computers can cure cultural diabetes
Peter Lunenfeld (wikipedia), professor in the Design | Media Arts department at UCLA, argues in a New Scientist op-ed piece for the importance of what he calls...
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Alone together
MIT technology and society specialist Professor Sherry Turkle presents – during a June 1 talk at the RSA in London – the results of a fifteen year exploration of...
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The iPad as support for people with disabilities
The Apple tablet is helping people with disabilities by reading e-mails, voicing directions, and zooming in on text. “Apple has added features that make the iPhone...
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For ebook devotees, reading is a whole new experience
Matt Frassica asks — in The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal (republished in USA Today) — what the increasing popularity of e-reader devices means for the experience...
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Help us say no to Italian internet censorship
AGCOM, Italy’s independent and autonomous administrative Authority for Communication Guarantees, is about to decide (on July 5) to controversially appoint itself...
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The Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Donald Norman alerts us – with strong recommendation – to check out the Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction now being assembled by Mads Soegaard and the...
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How print design is the future of interaction
Mike Kruzeniski is Creative Director at Microsoft, in the Windows Phone design studio, currently leading the Windows Phone Apps Design team. Kruzeniski gave a talk...
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Experientia teams with Innovhub, to make its services available to Milan SMEs at 50% of the cost
Innovhub, the innovation agency of the Milan Chamber of Commerce, has selected the international user experience design consultancy Experientia to help Milan-based...
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Digital DIY
The Guardian reports on a study by an “exasperated academic” (Philip Ely, head of the business and community school at the University for the Creative Arts, and...
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Europe split in happiness survey
In one of the biggest surveys of happiness carried out in the aftermath of the economic crisis, the vast majority of people in Britain, France and Italy have little...
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Achieving a sense of home for people who travel extensively
One of the people presenting at the DPPI conference in Milan last week was Aviaja Borup Lynggaard, an industrial Ph.D. scholar at Bang & Olufsen (B&O), attached...
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Toyota and CIID open a Window to the World
Imagine when a journey from A to B is no longer routine, as your car in the near-future encourages a sense of play, exploration and learning. This is the image...
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Studying interaction design in Switzerland
A new master in interaction design will start in September in Switzerland — with some teaching support from Experientia — and a few places are still available....
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Book: Ethnographies of the Videogame
Ethnographies of the Videogame: Gender, Narrative and Praxis by Helen Thornham, City University London, UK Ethnographies of the Videogame Ashgate, July 2011, 218...
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Enchanted Objects: The next wave of the web
David Rose (LinkedIn), CEO of Vitality (where he works on healthy behavior change) and lecturer at MIT Media Lab (and former CEO of Ambient Devices), gave a talk...
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What is Your Influence Score?
Imagine a world in which we are assigned a number that indicates how influential we are. This number would help determine whether you receive a job, a hotel-room...
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IBM reveals untapped mobile users of the future
Consumers have a growing appetite for health and wellness gadgets and this represents a burgeoning market opportunity for device manufacturers that has barely been...
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