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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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Steelcase research insights
Two interesting articles on recent Steelcase research, and particularly on the challenge of how to best gather relevant insights from qualitative research: How...
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Pattie Maes on interfaces and innovation
Pattie Maes, an associate professor in MIT
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The benefits (and challenges) of user-generated news
Matt Rhodes reflects on the role that users can play in generating news content, and the implications for us all. “I
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Towards tomorrow
Today work is somewhere you travel to – in the future work will come to you. So says a report attempting to work out what the offices and workplaces of 2030 will...
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When I
Cory Doctorow reflects in his latest Guardian column — which is subtitled “Tales from the encrypt” — on how important it is to have a secure, long-term solution...
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Tools of engagement: the new practice of user-centered design
In a short essay on Core77, Robert Fabricant is not afraid to tackle some big questions: “What role did Design play in contributing to our current global crisis...
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Interfaces magazine: The education issue
The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), is all devoted...
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Africa
Katrin Verclas of Mobile Active points out that the new Google/ MTN/ Grameen collaboration on mobile information services in Uganda is very expensive, and this...
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August new media gathering in Banff involves Experientia partner
Interactive Screen 0.9: The Makers (10 to 15 August 2009) is the 14th installment of the Banff New Media Institute
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Are we losing our ability to think critically?
Samuel Greengard writes in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM on how some experts believe that computer technology might be affecting people’s ability...
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Arup Foresight
Arup’s Drivers of Change initiative is an on-going research programme exploring those issues most likely to have a major impact upon society, on Arup
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Microsoft
Navi Radjou writes on HarvardBusiness.org that he recently visited the Microsoft Research India lab in Bangalore, describes what he learned about their Technology...
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Service Design, a short essay by Jennifer Bove
Service design, while often talked about in academia, is getting more and more attention from design companies and service providers, as the impact of experience...
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Book: Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter
Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter: Reflections on Research in and of Corporations Edited by Melissa Cefkin Berghahn Books, July 2009 262 pages Abstract Businesses...
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Practices around privacy (and Nokia)
A few days into the brouhaha about Nokia-Siemens Networks equipment being used for surveillance in Iran, Nokia user researcher Jan Chipchase reflects on the controversy...
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How people power can transform Britain
The Independent is publishing a collection of essays to launch NESTA
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Charles Leadbeater essay: The Art of With
Charles Leadbeater explores what the advent of the web, collaborative practice and open source ways of working mean for the arts and art organisations in this excellent...
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Intel
Malaysian newspaper The Star devotes plenty of space to user-centred design in three stories that feature the work of Genevieve Bell, Intel’s user experience director...
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