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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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mBCC Field Guide for Developing Mobile Behavior Change Communication Programs
The
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Futurescapes
FutureScapes, an open collaboration project by Sony and Forum for the Future, aims to bring together a range of expert thinkers, designers, futurologists, writers...
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Helsinki Street Eats: a book about everyday food
Helsinki Street Eats: a book about everyday food By Bryan Boyer and Dan Hill, with contributions from Ville Tikka, Nuppu G
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Behavior Driven Design 101
Design is becoming an applied behavioral science, and your art school background is no longer sufficient, says Jason Hreha, behavior designer and UX advisor. “Fields...
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Donald A. Norman and Roberto Verganti on incremental vs radical innovation
Donald A. Norman (of the Nielsen Norman Group) and Roberto Verganti (Politecnico di Milano) have jointly published a paper entitled “Incremental and Radical Innovation...
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User experience vision for startups
In a TechCrunch guest post by Uzi Shmilovici, CEO and founder of Future Simple, outlines how he came to the conclusion that there
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Four new chapters on interaction-design.org
Four new chapters of the interaction-design.org resource are now available: Requirements Engineering from an HCI Perspective by Alistair G. Sutcliffe The chapter...
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BOOMERANG, death by gadget: the mobile phone
BOOMERANG, death by gadget : the mobile phone
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The origin of futurism
Bruce Sterling, the celebrated science fiction writer and author of Tomorrow Now, explains why you don’t need to be clairvoyant to predict the future. The article...
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An update on the use of e-readers in Africa
What does it take to introduce e-books and e-readers into communities in low income countries — and is this a good idea, asks Michael Trucano on EduTech, a World...
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On the relationship between socio-economic factors and cell phone usage
The ubiquitous presence of cell phones in emerging economies has brought about a wide range of cell phone-based services for low-income groups. Often times, the...
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Cognition and the intrinsic user experience
Over the past few years there’s been a lot of discussion around whether an experience can be designed. But it seems, writes Jordan Julien in UX Magazine, like everyone’s...
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Exploring mobile-only Internet use (South Africa)
Exploring mobile-only Internet use: results of a training study in urban South Africa Using an ethnographic action research approach, the study by Jonathan Donner...
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Meet the 2020 Chinese consumer
By 2020, Chinese consumers will join the ranks of the world
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The consumerisation of IT
In November last year, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) published the short (free) report “The consumerization of IT- The next-generation CIO“. The
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UNDP Mobile Technologies and Empowerment report
A report, recently published by UNDP, on mobile technologies and human development,
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M-Government
This report by Hani Eskandar (ITU), Barbara- Chiara Ubaldi (OECD) and Vyacheslav Cherkasov (UN-DESA) highlights the critical potential of mobile technologies for...
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The argument of this pamphlet, written by Charles Leadbeater for IPPR (the Institute for Public Policy Research, the UK
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