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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is collaboration correlated with productivity?
Apparently, it is prestigious to write research papers with people from other countries. Funding agencies routinely favor collaboration between different
From Putting People First
Interview with the director of UX of the New York Times
Vicky Teinaki talked to Alex Wright, Director of User Experience at The New York Times, and author of Glut, a book on the history of information architecture from...
From Putting People First
From
A few months ago, we wrote with satisfaction how the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) got inspired by the theme of its first European regional conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Freeconomics: Giving it Away
From Wharton's Knowledge Today, a view of alternate economic models: ' ... Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine, extols the market power of giving your product...
From Putting People First
Videos of Compostmodern conference online
All videos of the Compostmodern conference (San Francisco, February 2009) are now online. Presented by the San Francisco chapter of AIGA and the AIGA Center for...
From Putting People First
July-August issue of Interactions magazine is out
The July-August issue of Interactions magazine is out and more and more content is publicly available online (thank goodness): Editorial: Interactions: Time, Culture...
From Putting People First
Steelcase research insights
Two interesting articles on recent Steelcase research, and particularly on the challenge of how to best gather relevant insights from qualitative research: How...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marco Polo Explorers
An interesting innovation consultancy group. ' ... Marco Polo Explorers is an innovation consultancy that transforms consumer insights, market intelligence and...
From Putting People First
Pattie Maes on interfaces and innovation
Pattie Maes, an associate professor in MIT
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing for Behavior Change
In IEEE Computer, Ubifit: Designing for Behavior Change in Everyday Life. I have seen a number of lab attempts at this basic idea, this one looks good.
From Putting People First
The benefits (and challenges) of user-generated news
Matt Rhodes reflects on the role that users can play in generating news content, and the implications for us all. “I
From Putting People First
Towards tomorrow
Today work is somewhere you travel to – in the future work will come to you. So says a report attempting to work out what the offices and workplaces of 2030 will...
From Return 42;
35 Years of The UNIX Time-Sharing System
Earlier this year, people in many places wrote about the 40th anniversary of the moment Ken Thompson sat down and started to work on UNIX (which is actually inThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter Versus Online Reviews
An excellent piece from Adage: Forget Twitter; Your Best Marketing Tool Is the Humble Product Review Feedback Has Influenced Design, Supplier Relations for Samsung...
From Putting People First
When I
Cory Doctorow reflects in his latest Guardian column — which is subtitled “Tales from the encrypt” — on how important it is to have a secure, long-term solution...
From Putting People First
Tools of engagement: the new practice of user-centered design
In a short essay on Core77, Robert Fabricant is not afraid to tackle some big questions: “What role did Design play in contributing to our current global crisis...
From Putting People First
Interfaces magazine: The education issue
The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), is all devoted...
From Putting People First
Africa
Katrin Verclas of Mobile Active points out that the new Google/ MTN/ Grameen collaboration on mobile information services in Uganda is very expensive, and this...
From The Eponymous Pickle