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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 …
From Putting People First
Brains, behaviour and design
Over the past few decades, researchers have codified many of the patterns that describe why people behave irrationally. As researchers, how can we be on the lookout...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Brands Grow: The Book
Correspondent Byron Sharp. Professor at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, University of South Australia, has a new book out: How Brands Grow: What Marketers Don't...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ham Radio Still Growing
To my surprise, in Slashdot, report on the growth of Ham radio. It doesn't require connectivity and in disasters, providing there is a power source, will still...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Full Day One for US Imagine Cup Finals
At 8AM this morning, judging for the US Imagine Cup finals began. Ten software design and ten game design teams each had 50 minutes to
From Putting People First
Toward a read/write urbanism
What might we gain, asks Adam Greenfield, if we begin to conceive of cities, for some limited purposes anyway, as software under active development? What if we...
From Putting People First
The imitation economy
Innovation is overrated, writes Drake Bennett in the Boston Globe. It’s time to appreciate the power of the copycat. “Invaluable though innovation may be, our relentless...
From Putting People First
Pope Benedict: people at the centre of the web
According to the Repubblica newspaper, the head of the Catholic Church has been arguing today for the centrality of the person on the web. We agree, but are surprised...
From Putting People First
Psychology, climate change and sustainable behaviour
Alexa Spence and Nick Pidgeon of Cardiff University write in Environment Magazine that meeting existing and future climate change targets will require rapid social...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-04-24
Final version of Procurement and Open Source Software Guideline published The European Commission's specialist open source unit, OSOR, has finally produced an official...
From Putting People First
User experience in eGovernment
Stepan Doubrava and Jakub Franc of ExperienceU (Czech Republic), argues on the Global User Research blog for the proper use of user-centred design principles in...
From Putting People First
Challenging the limits of open society
Anand Giridharadas is one of my favourite writers at the New York Times and this time his reflection on the merits of open societies is particularly thought provoking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simplicity in Packaging
A look at why complex times need simpler packaging.-
From Putting People First
IDEO on mobile and human-centered design
The Mobile Behavior blog interviewed Robert Suarez, a senior portfolio lead in the Consumer Experience design (CXd) group at IDEO. With a background in User experience...
From Putting People First
The BBC
The BBC UX&D team has published a global experience language for the BBC’s digital service: The GVL 3.0 guidelines are a reference point for all designers creating...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Opening Night US Imagine Cup Finals
The competitors have arrived in Washington DC (OK technically Chevy Chase MD) for the US Imagine Cup finals. Tonight started with a light dinner, some social time...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Neuroscience Tapes
A number of interviews with neuroscientists as show on the Charlie Rose show are now online, an overview is posted at the Mindhacks Site. I have happened to see...
From Wild WebMink