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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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Book: Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction
Make It So – Interaction design lessons from science fiction By Nathan Shedroff & Christopher Noessel Rosenfeld Media September 2012 ISBNs: paperback (1-933820-98...
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Book: Economy of Experiences
Today Albert Boswijk, founder and CEO of the European Centre for the Experience Economy, contacted us about his new book “Economy of Experiences”. Boswijk co-founded...
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UX Curve: A method for evaluating long-term user experience
UX Curve: A method for evaluating long-term user experience Sari Kujala (a), Virpi Roto (b), Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila (a), Evangelos Karapanos (c), Arto Sinnel...
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Luxury brands need luxury retail experiences, even in the online space
Jonathan Ross, business development director at FACT-Finder, discusses the steps luxury brands can take to ensure a more rewarding online retail experience for...
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PARC ethnographer on the power of observation
In an article for GigaOM, Ellen Isaacs (personal site), a user experience designer and ethnographer for PARC, explains the benefits of using ethnography to develop...
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Should we focus on user experience?
This article by my compatriot Koen AT Claes claims that our current notion of UX design mistakenly focuses on experience, and that we should go one step further...
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The age of data sharing (report)
We live in an age of sharing. As consumers and online, we regularly share personal information, and generate new data through our browsing or purchasing history...
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From design fiction to experiential futures
In honor of its Ten-year Anniversary, the Association of Professional Futurists (yes, they exist!) launched its first publication, The Future of Futures. Edited...
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Peter Merholz on Reframing 'UX Design'
Peter Merholz, a UX thinker and practitioner whom I have always held in high esteem, has written a well thought through blog post on reframing UX design. The two...
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Intel conversations about the future
Intel dabbles in science fiction, titles ReadWriteWeb. On Monday, they write, Intel debuted a book of science fiction stories. Dubbed Imaging the Future And Building...
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The bling approach to the school of the future
Recently I have been exploring developments on the impact of new technologies on the future of education, particularly in high schools. The latest trend in education...
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Service design in tourism
SDT2012 was the first international conference on service design thinking in the travel and tourism industry. For the first time, the conference brought together...
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Ubicomp’s colonial impulse
Paul Dourish and Scott Mainwaring, the founders of the Intel funded Social Computing Research Center at UC Irvine, presented yesterday a paper at Ubicomp 2012 with...
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The new face of digital populism: The Netherlands
Ahead of next week’s Dutch election, the UK think tank Demos launched Populism in Europe: Netherlands, which analyses the rise of Geert Wilders’ Partij voor de...
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Marko Ahtisaari, “Nokia’s visionary,” wants to “out-design Apple”
Marko Athisaari, Nokia’s head of design, is pushing a general overall vision where advanced function is blended into unforgettable form¿post-industrial form. The...
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Intel annual ‘Mobile Etiquette’ study examines online sharing behaviors around the world
According to a recent multi-country study commissioned by Intel Corporation and conducted by Ipsos Observer on “Mobile Etiquette,” the majority of adults and teens...
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Consumers say no to mobile apps that grab too much data
A study by the Pew Research Center, released Wednesday, found that among Americans adults who use smartphone apps, half had decided not to install applications...
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Ericsson on evolving TV and video-consumption habits
Ericsson is publishing interesting research these days (and therefore gets featured on this blog). Its latest TV and video ConsumerLab report found that mobile...
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Africa embracing m-commerce
In a new report from its ConsumerLab, Ericsson maps out the potential of transformation within m-commerce across the region of sub-Saharan Africa. Based on in-depth...
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