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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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Extensive interview with user interface expert Bill Buxton
Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail has published an extensive, three-part interview that Chad Sapieha conducted with Microsoft Principal Researcher (and fellow...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Don Norman: Living with Complexity (book)
Living with Complexity Norman, Donald A MIT Press, October 2010 280 pages Amazon If only today
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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’...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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A cyber-house divided
Online as much as in the real world, people bunch together in mutually suspicious groups
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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...
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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...
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Basque PhD thesis on relationship of youth today with new technologies
A few days ago sociologist Ms Luc
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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