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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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How teachers in Africa are failed by mobile learning
Only projects that work with existing education systems will improve learning and cut poverty, says Niall Winters of the London Knowledge Lab at the University...
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Book: Status Update by Alice E. Marwick
Last year, I posted about the very interesting PhD dissertation by Alice E. Marwick (downloadable here). Based on ethnographic research of the San Francisco technology...
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The Newspeak of ‘human-centred’ [Book]
Freedom vs Necessity in International Relations Human-Centred Approaches to Security and Development by David Chandler Zed Books Ltd 224 pages, 2013 [Amazon link]...
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Conference Review: UX STRAT 2013, Part 1
UX STRAT, the first every user experience strategy conference, took place in September in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center. Pabini Gabriel...
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Architects don’t listen to people
Christine Outram left the architecture profession because, she says, architects “don’t listen to people“. “The truth is, most of you don’t try. You rely on rules...
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The design of Copenhagen as a bicycle friendly city
In a ten part video series, Copenhagenize Design Co explores the top 10 design elements that make Copenhagen a bicycle-friendly city. In the embedded video above...
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Observations from an ethnography conference
Alexa Curtis recently attended EPIC, the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, a truly international gathering of ethnographers, anthropologists, strategists...
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What behavioral economics is not
Essay: The Nature of the BEast: What Behavioral Economics Is Not 10/16/13 Matthew Darling, Saugato Datta, and Sendhil Mullainathan People are complex; they defy...
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An obstacle to patient-centered care: poor supply systems
It is widely acknowledged that patients and their families should be deeply involved in the design of and decisions about the health care that the former receive...
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Experientia redesigns online learning and training toolkit for UN affiliate
This week, the ITC-ILO officially launched the Experientia-designed website Compass: the right direction for learning and training. The site is a toolkit comprising...
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New qualitative research report on tablet use in UK schools
Tablets for Schools, a UK campaign organisation that seeks to “prove the categorical case of tablets in schools”, has just published its second qualitative research...
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Interaction-Ivrea, Arduino and Intel’s Galileo
Intel’s Arduino-compatible open-source Galileo development board was launched today in Italy at Rome’s Maker Faire. Rightfully so, as the initiative has such deep...
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Dancing to silent algorithms
More and more, we live our lives according to the unknown auspices of machine codes, writes Frank Swain. “Our lives are influenced by technologies not simply as...
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The problem with big data correlations
“The people using big data don’t presume to peer deeply into people’s souls,” argues David Brooks in the New York Times (in a March 2013 column). “They don’t try...
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The Qualified Self
Looking at yet another tweet and another post about the Quantified Self, I started reflecting this morning on the Silicon Valley-driven fascination with the quantification...
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The science behind using online communities to change behavior
Sean Young, a behavioral psychologist, a family medicine professor and director of innovation at the center for behavioral and addiction medicine at UCLA, addresses...
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Ethnography and speculative fiction
Two new articles on Ethnography Matters: Ethnographies from the Future: What can ethnographers learn from science fiction and speculative design? Laura Forlano...
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Book: People-Centered Innovation
People-Centered Innovation: Becoming a Practitioner in Innovative Research by Pedro Oliveira Biblio Publishing, 2013 194 pages [Amazon] Written with a general audience...
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An ethnography of interaction design practice (PhD dissertation)
Delivering Design: Performance and Materiality in Professional Interaction Design is the title of the PhD dissertation Sarah Goodman defended last year to obtain...
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