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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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Digital dinosaurs and public gardens
Two new articles in UX Magazine: Don’t become a digital dinosaur by Samantha Starmer UX professionals can
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Technology aside, most people still decline to be located
Mostly the young are interested in letting others know their physical location. Others are reticent for safety reasons, or against providing too much information...
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Neighborly borrowing, over the online fence
The New York Times reports on how online start-ups are allowing people to rent out their belongings locally, for a small fee. “The Roomba was mine for only 24 hours...
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French ethnographic research on smartphone use
Le Monde newspaper published (Google translation) today a summary of an ethnographic research project on smartphone use by young adult, presented yesterday at a...
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Dublin, Ireland to host Interaction 12
The City of Dublin and the Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT) will act as co-hosts for Interaction 12, the annual conference of the Interaction Design...
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Trapped in the Anglosphere
Martin Kettle thinks the UK has lost sight of next door Europe, trapped as Brits are in their Anglo-centric internet. “It is hard to recall a time when the national...
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Finland
The 2010 Finnish National Innovation Strategy contains an important section on demand and user-driven innovation, with user-driven innovation being described as...
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Does technology pose a threat to our private life?
This week Google’s Eric Schmidt suggested we may need to invent new identities to escape embarrassing online pasts
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Younghee Jung on design research for Nokia
Younghee Jung, manager and design researcher at the Nokia Research Centre in Bangalore, India, has been profiled again on the Nokia Conversations blog through a...
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Designing for the loss of control
The people at frogdesign have posted two long articles (the first one is really an essay) that we consider a recommended read: Openness or how do you design for...
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Creating immersive experiences with diegetic interfaces
Imon Deshmukh of Cooper thinks that interfaces can be more closely integrated with the environment in which they operate. In an article on the Cooper blog, he shares...
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Planting memories in people
In our urge to create great products online, we should focus on making experiences happen that plant memories in people
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Do you own your device, or it you?
On August 12, at noon, ZDNet Australia organised a live broadcast on the future of email. The discussion delved into the issues and challenges facing email in its...
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Gender differences in web usability
Frank Spillers thinks the User Experience community has not fully tapped the potential of gender-specific design aka Woman-centered Design. According to Spillers...
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If technology is making us stupid, it
There has been growing concern that computers have failed to live up to the promise of improving learning for school kids. The New York Times, The Washington Post...
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The Economist on social innovation
In America and Britain governments hope that a partnership with
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Clay Shirky
In this review of the book Over the holidays, I read Clay Shirky’s new book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age and found it quite wanting...
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It pays to be useful
In this review of the book 50 Ways to Make Google Love Your Website, published by The Hindu, the author emphasises very strongly the importance of usefulness. “Create...
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