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Mobile Face Biometrics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobile Face Biometrics

What looks like a considerable advance in face tracking on a smart phone. Including tracking specific features of a face. All done on a Nokia N900 phone. Includes...

Super Passwords
From The Eponymous Pickle

Super Passwords

On creating super passwords. Work ongoing at Georgia Tech.

Groupon Goes National
From The Eponymous Pickle

Groupon Goes National

Continued emergence of online couponing. This and increasing mobile interaction with stores and other locations is clearly our future. Get ready. Follow Frenda's...

Steering by Sniffing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Steering by Sniffing

New, to my knowledge, In the CACM:Device Lets Disabled Steer Wheelchair, Communicate by SniffingWeizmann Institute of ScienceA unique device based on sniffing

? Free Music Weekend
From Wild WebMink

? Free Music Weekend

Over 40 free tracks! There has to be a new season coming as far as the music industry is concerned, because there’s a tide of free sample tracks both on Amazon...

From Computational Complexity

Comments

Bill and I are strong believers in freedom of speech and have long since had an open comment policy, allowing anonymous comments, no moderation (except old posts...

Trapped in the Anglosphere
From Putting People First

Trapped in the Anglosphere

Martin Kettle thinks the UK has lost sight of next door Europe, trapped as Brits are in their Anglo-centric internet. “It is hard to recall a time when the national...

Finland
From Putting People First

Finland

The 2010 Finnish National Innovation Strategy contains an important section on demand and user-driven innovation, with user-driven innovation being described as...

Does technology pose a threat to our private life?
From Putting People First

Does technology pose a threat to our private life?

This week Google’s Eric Schmidt suggested we may need to invent new identities to escape embarrassing online pasts

Microindustries Checkout Director
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microindustries Checkout Director

MicroIndustries on their touch&Go Digital Signage. A classic problem. Including this new development: " ... Here at Micro Industries, we offer retailers one of...

Younghee Jung on design research for Nokia
From Putting People First

Younghee Jung on design research for Nokia

Younghee Jung, manager and design researcher at the Nokia Research Centre in Bangalore, India, has been profiled again on the Nokia Conversations blog through a...

Designing for the loss of control
From Putting People First

Designing for the loss of control

The people at frogdesign have posted two long articles (the first one is really an essay) that we consider a recommended read: Openness or how do you design for...

Creating immersive experiences with diegetic interfaces
From Putting People First

Creating immersive experiences with diegetic interfaces

Imon Deshmukh of Cooper thinks that interfaces can be more closely integrated with the environment in which they operate. In an article on the Cooper blog, he shares...

Planting memories in people
From Putting People First

Planting memories in people

In our urge to create great products online, we should focus on making experiences happen that plant memories in people

Do you own your device, or it you?
From Putting People First

Do you own your device, or it you?

On August 12, at noon, ZDNet Australia organised a live broadcast on the future of email. The discussion delved into the issues and challenges facing email in its...

Gender differences in web usability
From Putting People First

Gender differences in web usability

Frank Spillers thinks the User Experience community has not fully tapped the potential of gender-specific design aka Woman-centered Design. According to Spillers...

If technology is making us stupid, it
From Putting People First

If technology is making us stupid, it

There has been growing concern that computers have failed to live up to the promise of improving learning for school kids. The New York Times, The Washington Post...

The Economist on social innovation
From Putting People First

The Economist on social innovation

In America and Britain governments hope that a partnership with

Innovation in Kenya
From Putting People First

Innovation in Kenya

In Making Do: Innovation in Kenya

Clay Shirky
From Putting People First

Clay Shirky

In this review of the book Over the holidays, I read Clay Shirky’s new book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age and found it quite wanting...
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