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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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
From Putting People First
The Economist on social innovation
In America and Britain governments hope that a partnership with
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...
From Putting People First
It pays to be useful
In this review of the book 50 Ways to Make Google Love Your Website, published by The Hindu, the author emphasises very strongly the importance of usefulness. “Create...
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Why web tracking isn
Companies spend so much money on free services because of online advertising that trades in personal information. If Web users supply less information, the Web...
From Putting People First
Finding happiness while spending less
Stephanie Rosenbloom writes in the New York Times on what will make us happy. “The practices that consumers have adopted in response to the economic crisis ultimately...
From Putting People First
The dirtiest word in UX: complexity
In an article for UX Mag designer Francisco Inchauste examines some of the many faces of complexity and explores the balance we need to find for successful solutions...
From Putting People First
Information seeking behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students
Emerging findings from the first annual report of a major three-year study into the information seeking behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students show that there...
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The Internet Generation prefers the real world
They may have been dubbed the “Internet generation,” but young people are more interested in their real-world friends than Facebook. New research shows that the...
From My Biased Coin
RATS roundup
I didn't see every talk (my brother lives in the area, so I took a break to see family) but I did have a fun day at RATS. There was a brief introduction by Chris...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FM Radios Mandatory on Cells?
The buzz is out that there may be US laws enacted that require an FM receiver on ever cellphone. Essentially another subsidization of an industry, the broadcasting...
From Schneier on Security