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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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Simon Roberts (EPIC chair) reflects on Big Data, business and ethnography
Simon Roberts, the highly engaging, smart and easily approachable chair of the EPIC conference last week, was so absorbed with all the logistics that he didn’t...
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When does quantity become quality? How to navigate big data
While “Big Data” is causing excitement in the IT and business sector, the practice and concept of data analysis is not unfamiliar to those coming from a UX research...
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Can Smarter Cities improve our quality of life?
Can information and technology improve the quality of life in cities? That seems a pretty fundamental question for the Smarter Cities movement to address. There...
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Does digital age overcomplicate design?
Alice Rawsthorn, design critic of the New York Times, argues that too many products use complexity to mask their flaws. “Designing self-explanatory products is...
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Online time can hobble brain’s important work
While you are browsing online, you could be squandering memories — or losing important information, according to Swedish research. Contrary to common wisdom, an...
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Financial Times on EPIC conference
This week, business anthropologists from all over the world descended on the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference at London’s Royal Institution, the historic...
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How Public Design? A conference at Mindlab
MindLab, a cross-ministerial innovation unit in Denmark, hosted the seminar titled ‘How Public Design?’ for the second time on 2 and 3 September. This event gathered...
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Is design still about making things?
The future of design is a broad and slippery subject, one examined number of designers and critics at the recent Alvar Aalto Design Seminar in Jyväskylä, Finland...
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How robots can trick you into loving them
The secret to robots with better social skills? Exploiting human nature. Maggie Koerth-Baker, science editor of BoingBoing.net, explores “how [designers can make]...
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EthnographyMatters on the relationships between ethnography, fiction and design
This month’s theme of EthnographyMatters, edited by Nicolas Nova, is about the relationships between ethnography, speculative fiction and design. “In design circles...
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Two recent reports by Pew Internet
Both studies are about the USA market. Location-based services (Released on September 12, 2013) The role of location in digital life is changing as growing numbers...
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A Manifesto for Smart Citizens
We, citizens of all cities, take the fate of the places we live in into our own hands. We care about the familiar buildings and the parks, the shops, the schools...
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Book: Design Anthropology
Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice Editor(s): Wendy Gunn, Ton Otto, Rachel Charlotte Smith Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 304 pages Design is a key site of cultural...
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The Internet of Things and the mythical smart fridge
In this article for UX Magazine, Avi Itzkovitch explores the opportunities the Internet of Things presents to designers. Because the smart fridge is the cliché...
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Who Commits Virtual Identity Suicide?
Who Commits Virtual Identity Suicide? Differences in Privacy Concerns, Internet Addiction, and Personality Between Facebook Users and Quitters Stefan Stieger, Christoph...
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Experientia and Intel present at EPIC 2013 in London
EPIC 2013, the conference on “ethnographic praxis in industry”, kicked off in London today, with experts from around the world gathering for the three-day conference...
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Experientia workshop on strategic UX design for Taiwanese businesses
Taiwan meets Italy this week, in a series of workshops and company visits hosted by Experientia for Taiwanese business people. The 15 chief customer experience...
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What are users up to when they have an experience?
Understanding the experience of using an object depends on understanding the context of use, argues Jeff Doemland in UX Magazine. However, “The prevailing understanding...
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The consumer has spoken but is anyone listening?
One would expect that listening to your customers’ needs and wants is a basic prerequisite for any business active in a competitive industry. It also is understandable...
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