Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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 …
From Putting People First
Putting people first: working together with user-led organisations
This document from the UK Department for Health outlines the benefits that local authorities, and their residents, enjoy when they work with user-led organisations...
From Putting People First
On engineering and design: an open letter
Microsoft Research Principal Scientist Bill Buxton calls for engineers and user-experience designers to learn to appreciate one another: “End-user satisfaction...
From Putting People First
ACM rolls out new Communications website, which features Putting People First
From Putting People First
NESTA
NESTA, the UK Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, just announced that it has undertaken research which leads it to believe the UK is unprepared for...
From Putting People First
Bill Moggridge wins Cooper-Hewitt Lifetime Achievement Award
Today, Cooper-Hewitt Director Paul Warwick Thompson announced the winners and finalists of the 2009 National Design Awards, which recognise excellence across a...
From Putting People First
A selection of CHI2009 papers
Today I spent some time looking through the CHI 2009 papers. Here is a personal selection (and you need an ACM membership to access them): A comparative study of...
From Putting People First
Is Interaction Design a dead-end job?
Tim McCoy of Cooper thinks it is, at least as a service offering and a career path. “IDEO
From Putting People First
Social networking sites as building tools
anthrodesign is a Yahoo! group of (currently 1693) individuals interested in the role of applied anthropology in the corporate, public sector, and medical contexts...
From Putting People First
User-centred design improves workflows in radiology
From an article on eHealthNews: “The software developers at Siemens Healthcare have come up with something special for customers employing Siemens PACS (Picture...
From Putting People First
Book
The Plenitude Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff Rich Gold Foreword by John Maeda MIT Press, September 2007 We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen...
From Putting People First
Research on how teenagers use news sites
The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) Foundation has published a report on a study on how teenagers use news sites. “The NAA Foundation and the Media Management...
From Putting People First
Prepaid economies and bottom of the pyramid research in Helsinki
Recent Experientia collaborator and emerging markets expert Niti Bhan, who is currently based in Helsinki, Finland (where we met her yesterday), is involved with...
From Putting People First
Vodafone
After a short hiatus, Vodafone’s Receiver Magazine is updated again with a series of articles under the heading “Seizing the Moment”. The first one in the series...
From Putting People First
Co-creation
Fronteer Strategy, an Amsterdam-based management strategy consulting firm, has published a short (6-page) paper on co-creation, in which they argue that there are...
From Putting People First
Design Fiction, an Interactions Magazine cover story by Bruce Sterling
As a contributing editor for Interactions Magazine, I am tasked with finding clever people to write a story for the magazine. My first choice was Bruce Sterling...
From Putting People First
Africa Gathering in London
Today was the Africa Gathering in London and ICT4D, an Austrian NGO dealing with ICT for development, has done an excellent job at summarising them: Summaries 1...
From Putting People First
Keeping it real: Interaction in the real world
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...
From Putting People First
European Commission launches public consultation on design as a driver of user-centred innovation
Yesterday, the European Commission launched a public consultation on design and innovation on the basis of a recent Commission staff working document on “Design...
From Putting People First