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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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White House launches UX-focused Digital Service team
Yesterday, the White House formally launched the U.S. Digital Service. “The Digital Service will be a small team made up of our country’s brightest digital talent...
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UX without user research is not UX
UX teams are responsible for creating desirable experiences for users. Yet many organizations fail to include users in the development process. Without customer...
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Dropbox’s Head of Design on the dawn of personalized products
Soleio Cuervo, design lead at Dropbox, spends his time thinking of new ways for products to understand our needs and wants in real time. After years of firsthand...
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Can technology really change your habits?
Downloading an app won’t get you to change your habits. Vivian Giang writes on the science of what will. “There are three kinds of behavioral changes, according...
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No time to think
Nowadays, people can keep negative thoughts at bay with a frenzy of activity. Kate Murphy writes on the consequences in the Sunday Review section of the New York...
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The psychological and cultural fallout from the end of privacy
Alex Preston explores the personal, psychological and cultural impact of the end of privacy in today’s Observer: Here lies our greatest risk, one insufficiently...
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The importance of user-focused research in medical device design
“The human factors activities that deliver safety and effectiveness [in medical devices] do not necessarily deliver a good user experience or, ultimately, a good...
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On the importance of forgetting
The ongoing debate about Europe’s so-called ‘right to be forgotten‘ ruling on search engines has shone a light onto a key pressure point between technology and...
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Applying insights from behavioral economics to policy design
Applying insights from behavioral economics to policy design Brigitte C. Madrian NBER Working paper July 2014 The premise of this article is that an understanding...
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Qualitative self-tracking and the Qualified Self
Mark Carrigan, sociologist, academic technologist and research assistant at the Centre for Social Ontology, is intellectually drawn to the Quantified Self because...
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Social wearables, as seen by the NYT R&D Group
Noah Feehan of the New York Times Research & Development group explores the concept of social wearables: objects that explicitly leverage their visibility or invisibility...
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The touch-screen generation
Young children — even toddlers — are spending more and more time with digital technology. Hanna Rosin wonders what will it mean for their development? “As technology...
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HeadCon ’13: What’s new in social science?
In July, 2013, Edge invited a group of social scientists to participate in an Edge Seminar at Eastover Farm focusing on the state of the art of what the social...
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Persona Power
Article by Shlomo Goltz on “integrating the hero’s journey as part of the user-centered design process”: “There are many prominent and outspoken members of the...
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Call to bring refugee-led innovation into humanitarian work
The humanitarian sector must lift barriers to user-led innovation by refugee communities if it is to meet the challenges of an ever-changing world, says a new report...
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Baking behavioral nudges into the products we own
Maria Bezaitis, PhD and Principal Engineer of Intel’s User Experience Ethnographic Research Lab, discusses the Real World Web and how internet-enabled sensors will...
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[Book]: Nursing Research Using Ethnography
Nursing Research Using Ethnography: Qualitative Designs and Methods in Nursing Mary De Chesnay, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN (Editor) Pub. Date: 08/28/2014 372 pp.,...
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Learning from extreme consumers
Learning from Extreme Consumers by Jill Avery, Michael I. Norton Teaching Note, 9 pages, January 2014 Traditional market research methods focus on understanding...
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Jibo the “family robot” might be oddly charming, or just plain odd
The “world’s first family robot” is based on efforts to elicit emotional response in humans—a powerful idea, but one fraught with challenges, writes Will Knight...
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