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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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Teenage usability: designing teen-targeted websites
Recently published Nielsen/Norman Group research shows that teens are (over)confident in their web abilities, but they perform worse than adults. Lower reading...
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Tablet use in California and Ontario high schools – Field observations by Experientia collaborator
Francesca Salvadori (Italian blog) is an Italian high school teacher who runs a 1:1 iPad pilot program in her school, and collaborates with Experientia on the topic...
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First outputs from Intel research centre on sustainable connected cities
The Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities – a cooperation between University College London (UCL), Imperial College London and...
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Report: Divided Brain, Divided World
Divided Brain, Divided World; Why the best part of us struggles to be heard is an RSA report that explores the practical significance of the scientific fact that...
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From GoPros to vanity camera drones
Nicolas Nova went skiing and saw a lot of GoPro cameras on people’s heads. He got intrigued, and wrote an Ethnography Matters column where he questions informal...
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The “intentional fallacy” and the “affective fallacy” of interaction design
How seriously should we (as researchers, practitioners, users, and members of society) seek to understand and factor in the intentions of the designers who made...
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Interview with Michael Griffiths, Director of Ethnographic Research, Ogilvy & Mather China
Michael B Griffiths is Director of Ethnography at Ogilvy & Mather, Greater China, Associate Research Fellow, White Rose East Asia Centre, and External Research...
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UK Report: Notions of identity will be transformed in the next decade
Hyper-connectivity – where people are constantly connected to social networks and streams of information – will have a transforming effect on how we see ourselves...
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Book: Beyond Smart Cities
(Wow, it covers Turin!) Beyond Smart Cities: How Cities Network, Learn and Innovate Tim Campbell Routledge, 2012 The promise of competitiveness and economic growth...
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Small, local, open and connected: resilient systems and sustainable qualities
How do we design a resilient socio-technical system, asks Ezio Manzini in Design Observer. “Let’s look to natural systems; their tolerance of breakdowns and their...
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Book: Orchestrating Human-Centered Design
Orchestrating Human-Centered Design Guy Boy Springer, 2013 The time has come to move into a more humanistic approach of technology and to understand where our world...
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Recent studies on the impact of tablet use in schools – an overview
2012 One-to-one Tablets in Secondary Schools: An Evaluation Study (see also here and here) Dr Barbie Clarke and Siv Svanaes, Family Kids and Youth, UK, 2012 Research...
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Study on the introduction of iPads in UK secondary school
Naace, the UK’s educational ICT association, published a report last year (July 2012), entitled “The iPad as a Tool for Education – A study on the introduction...
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Designing for the human brain
Sarah Rotman Epps of Forrester thinks the challenge ahead for wearables is in designing for the human brain. “No, I’m not talking about sensors implanted in your...
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Talking, walking objects
The future is rich with sensor-based, animated devices to give us affirmation, coach us and just plain keep us company. Smart Design’s Carla Diana gives a good...
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Nicholas Carr on taking Clay Shirky’s ‘cognitive surplus’ idea to its logical, fascistic extreme
Max Levchin [one of the Silicon Valley elite—computer scientist, cofounder of PayPal, buddy of Peter Thiel, Yahoo director, restless entrepreneur, big thinker,...
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Redesigning public services so they can actually help people
Although I don’t agree with the implicit meaning of this Fast Company title (i.e. that public services currently do not help people – whereas the real issue is...
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Social Innovation Europe Magazine interviews Ezio Manzini
For more than two decades Ezio Manzini has been working in the field of design for sustainability. Recently, he focused his interests on social innovation –he started...
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Dan Hill’s critique of the smart cities movement
Dan Hill (of CityofSound, ARUP, Sitra and now Fabrica fame) is not only extremely prolific, but his writing is also very much to the point. His latest Smart City...
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