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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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Nokia
Nokia’s IdeasProject site contains this week a video interview with Don Tapscott, and four feature articles that integrate some of the ideas presented thus far...
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Paper: Mobile phone access and usage in Africa
Research ICT Africa!, a network of universities and research institutions from 19 African countries, has a site with some interesting research papers and presentations...
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Let them eat tweets
Virginia Heffernan writes in the New York Times Magazine on why Twitter is a trap. “These worries started to surface for me last month, when Bruce Sterling, the...
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Global usability organisation embraces design
In December last year, the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) organised its first European conference in Turin, Italy, with a focus on the connection between...
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Persuasive design for sustainability
Jeremy Faludi has compiled — in an article for Core77 00 a synthesis of the work of Stanford lecturer and researcher BJ Fogg on the field of persuasive design,...
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Three environmental discourses in human-computer interaction
Elizabeth Goodman of the UC Berkeley School of Information made a presentation on the past and future of environmental issues and HCI at the recent CHI conference...
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Gathering User Ideas
Nokia’s IdeasProject website is intriguing. A content focused platform focused on high level discourse, it contains interviews with thought leaders in communications...
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Organic interfaces workshop at CHI 2009
Carla Diana reports on Core77 at length about the highly conceptual CHI presentation/panel “Eek! A Mouse! Organic User Interfaces: Tangible, Transitive Materials...
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Data as seductive material
Matt Jones (of Dopplr) gave a talk recently on seduction at the Sensing and Sensuality conference at the Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden. It’s all about seductive...
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UCL London is starting a new MA in Digital Anthropology
UCL (which is the abbreviation for “University College London” although you have to look at the site’s footer to find out) is starting a new MA in Digital Anthropology...
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Thinking about the future of news
The current paradigm of creating of serious news stories — through newspapers and big media — is under threat. Here is a haul of background on the matter (from...
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LIFT France and I Realize Italy
Last month I announced that the next LIFT conference would take place in Marseilles, France on 18-20 June this year. Entrepreneurs, researchers, artists, designers...
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Africa perspective on the role of mobile technologies in fostering social and economic development
Last week, the W3C Mobile Web Initiative organised a workshop on the “Africa Perspective on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development” in...
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IT viewed through a moral prism
An EU-wide study of emerging technologies led by Leicester
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Bill Buxton on design and return on experience
Canadian designer and computer scientist Bill Buxton is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Last month Bill gave a good 20-min keynote at Mix09 that kicked...
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It
Healthcare organisations are throwing mobile technology at problems without fully considering the underlying business processes or the working conditions of the...
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Market and non-market co-creation
Chris Lawer underlines that is important to identify that co-creation is not just about firms improving their social marketing, open innovation, community-building...
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Design thinking
A controversial post by Sam Ladner, followed by a rich debate between the author, Paula Thornton, Peter Merholz, Raymond Pirouz, and others. Design is attractive...
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