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Ethical decision-making apps damage our ability to make moral choices

A recent crush of smartphone and tablet apps claim to make hard decisions easier, and the range of ethical dilemmas they can weigh in on will only increase. At... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 23, 2012 at 10:59 PM

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The Machine and The Ghost

Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things Peter-Paul Verbeek University of Chicago Press, 2011 183 pages (Amazon link) Christine... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 16, 2012 at 12:23 PM

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The psychology of content design

In a long article Jonathan Cutrell talks about a strategy for creating content that revolves around its portability to multiple scenarios, devices, and access frames... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 16, 2012 at 11:57 AM

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How Google is becoming an extension of your mind

Stephen Shankland thinks that Google is becoming an extension of your mind, an omnipresent digital assistant that figures out what you need and supplies it before... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 16, 2012 at 11:48 AM

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That

Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan argue in the New York Times Sunday Review that the device in your purse or jeans that you think is a cellphone, is in fact a tracking... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 16, 2012 at 11:38 AM

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Field notes from global tech ethnographer Tricia Wang

A sociologist, ethnographer, and corporate consultant who studies global technology use among migrants, low-income people, youth, and others on society Experientia
From Putting People First | July 12, 2012 at 03:31 PM

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Design alone can

Making products attractive and user-friendly is a smart idea, but it is no substitute for R&D and investment, argues James Woudhuysen, a professor of forecasting... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 9, 2012 at 09:04 AM

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In a Fisher-Price lab, apps become child

At a Fisher-Price lab, researchers watch children at play to come up with ideas for new products, including toys that incorporate apps on iPads and iPhones. At... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 9, 2012 at 08:53 AM

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Perspectives in experience design

Milan Guenther, founding partner of enterprise design associates, explores the word “user” in “user experience”, and compares it to customer experience, employee... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 9, 2012 at 08:47 AM

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Digital devices as embodied experiences in remote Indian village

In arguing that digital technologies enable embodied experiences that reshape the very ways in which we conceptualize our everyday life, Nishant Shah, founder and... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 6, 2012 at 09:30 AM

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Designing for context: the multiscreen ecosystem

In a long article, designer Avi Itzkovitch explains how, when connecting applications across smart devices, UX designers can create product ecosystems that dynamically... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 5, 2012 at 07:47 AM

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Big e-reader is watching you

Would George Orwell have been amused or disturbed by the development that Big Brother now knows exactly how long it takes readers to finish his novel, which parts... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 4, 2012 at 12:37 PM

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Washington Post creates Chief Experience Officer position

Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth announced in a memo that the paper has named Laura Evans, who has spent most of her nine years at the Post as chief... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 4, 2012 at 12:30 PM

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Intel social research team experiments with mood-altering technology

A team of engineers, anthropologists and psychologists at Intel’s Oregon lab is busy developing ways of integrating human emotion and technology in ways that will... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 4, 2012 at 07:48 AM

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Common Cause: the case for working with values and frames

In 2009, the chief executives and a few staff from a handful of UK non-governmental organisations (including WWF and RSPB) came together to discuss the inadequacy... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 1, 2012 at 02:39 PM

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Low2No smart services and informatics workbook published

The Helsinki Low2No project team just released a smart services and informatics workbook that was developed by ARUP and Experientia. Low2No is a broad project,... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 29, 2012 at 09:40 AM

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Dr Paul Bernal on the right to be forgotten

What is the right to be forgotten? How could it work Experientia
From Putting People First | June 28, 2012 at 09:50 AM

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Ethnographic research in a world of big data

In her final piece on ethnographic research in a world of big data (see earlier posts), Jenna Burrell, sociologist and assistant professor in the School of Information... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 28, 2012 at 09:40 AM

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UCI to lead national social computing research center, led by Paul Dourish

UC Irvine will anchor a new $12.5 million, Intel-funded research center that applies social science and humanities to the design and analysis of digital information... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 27, 2012 at 08:33 AM

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Book: Design and Anthropology

Design and Anthropology Edited by Wendy Gunn, University of Southern Denmark and Jared Donovan, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Ashgate, 2012 Hardcover... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 26, 2012 at 02:40 PM