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Cellphones, social networks make eavesdropping OK?
From Putting People First

Cellphones, social networks make eavesdropping OK?

Not only are many unconcerned about strangers overhearing cellphone calls, we purposely broadcast our personal business on Facebook and Twitter. Sharon Jayson reports...

Human-computer interaction for development
From Putting People First

Human-computer interaction for development

Human-Computer Interaction for Development: The Past, Present, and Future Research article by Melissa R. Ho (University of California, Berkeley), Thomas N. Smyth...

A tech world that centers on the user
From Putting People First

A tech world that centers on the user

I live in the future & here’s how it works Why your world, work, and brain are being creatively disrupted by Nick Bolton Crown Business, Sept. 2010 304 pages Amazon...

Vodafone
From Putting People First

Vodafone

The Future Agenda, sponsored by Vodafone, is a not-for-profit, cross-discipline programme which aims “to unite the best minds from around the globe to address the...

Don Norman: Living with Complexity (book)
From Putting People First

Don Norman: Living with Complexity (book)

Living with Complexity Norman, Donald A MIT Press, October 2010 280 pages Amazon If only today

Experientia to redesign United Nations website
From Putting People First

Experientia to redesign United Nations website

Experientia, the international experience design consultancy based in Turin, Italy, will be designing the new website of the training arm of the United Nations’...

Juicy stories and more
From Putting People First

Juicy stories and more

Four new articles in today’s edition of UXmatters: Juicy stories sell ideas By Whitney Quesenbery and Kevin Brooks Storytelling fits into the design process in...

The future of screen technology
From Putting People First

The future of screen technology

TAT, a Swedish software technology and mobile interface design company, recently ran a two-week open innovation experiment, during which they collaborate with the...

Why privacy is not dead
From Putting People First

Why privacy is not dead

The way privacy is encoded into software doesn’t match the way we handle it in real life, writes Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd in the Technology Review. “Each...

A cyber-house divided
From Putting People First

A cyber-house divided

Online as much as in the real world, people bunch together in mutually suspicious groups

Attention: This revolution will NOT be televised
From Putting People First

Attention: This revolution will NOT be televised

Adrian Chan of Gravity 7 and Andreas Weigend, former chief scientist at Amazon.com and lecturer at Stanford and UC Berkeley, together wrote an article on how best...

Stowe Boyd
From Putting People First

Stowe Boyd

Stowe Boyd went to BlogTalk in Galway, Ireland and came back inspired: sociality, he says, has turned out to be the most interesting thing to emerge from the past...

Basque PhD thesis on relationship of youth today with new technologies
From Putting People First

Basque PhD thesis on relationship of youth today with new technologies

A few days ago sociologist Ms Luc

Mobile devices and privacy
From Putting People First

Mobile devices and privacy

Should we focus on changing the behaviour of people OR changing the behaviour of devices? That is the key question in article by Ajit Jaokar on his blog Open Gardens...

How mobile devices could lead to more city living
From Putting People First

How mobile devices could lead to more city living

People pushing sustainability don’t tend to be the same types who love our digital-crazed iWorld. And that’s a problem because it means they don’t push one of the...

The library user experience: services before content
From Putting People First

The library user experience: services before content

Libraries will have to build a new foundation if they are to recover from these economic hard times

To win over users, gadgets have to be touchable
From Putting People First

To win over users, gadgets have to be touchable

Researchers say that touch screens are the start of a trend to make computers more open to human gestures, argues the New York Times. “Device makers in a post-iPhone...

Interactions magazine on human nuances
From Putting People First

Interactions magazine on human nuances

The current issue of Interactions Magazine is generally on the nuances of what makes us human, writes co-editor-in-chief Jon Kolko, and more in particular “about...

Aesthetics of interaction
From Putting People First

Aesthetics of interaction

The latest issue of the International Journal of Design, eer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to publishing research papers in all fields of design, is devoted...

A weird way of thinking has prevailed worldwide
From Putting People First

A weird way of thinking has prevailed worldwide

If a provocative new study is to be believed, the world lives in a situation where American undergraduates monopolize our knowledge of human nature, writes Anand...
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