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The way privacy is encoded into software doesn’t match the way we handle it in real life, writes Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd in the Technology Review.
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2 September 2010
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2 September 2010
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2 September 2010
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Adrian Chan of Gravity 7 and Andreas Weigend, former chief scientist at Amazon.com and lecturer at Stanford and UC Berkeley, together wrote an article on how best to respond to the world of social data, how to metabolize it, and incorporate it as if it belonged to the very company DNA.
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2 September 2010
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Stowe Boyd went to BlogTalk in Galway, Ireland and came back inspired: sociality, he says, has turned out to be the most interesting thing to emerge from the past decade of the web.
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2 September 2010
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A few days ago sociologist Ms Lucía Merino presented her PhD thesis entitled, Digital natives: a study of the technological socialisation of young people, at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).
(I have not been able to find the thesis online, and will update this post if I can find it) |
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2 September 2010
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2 September 2010
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2 September 2010
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2 September 2010
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Researchers say that touch screens are the start of a trend to make computers more open to human gestures, argues the New York Times.
Really? It is thought provoking from a UX point of view to read this article after first reading the criticism on gestural interfaces by Donald Norman and Jakob Nielsen in the current issue of Interactions magazine (see also previous post). |
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2 September 2010
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The current issue of Interactions Magazine is generally on the nuances of what makes us human, writes co-editor-in-chief Jon Kolko, and more in particular “about authenticity, complexity, and design-and the political, social, and human qualities of our work”.
Here are the articles that are currently available for free: interactions: authenticity, complexity, and design The meaning of affinity and the importance of identity in the designed world Why “the conversation” isn’t necessarily a conversation Hope for the best and prepare for the worst: interaction design and the tipping point Gestural interfaces: a step backwards in usability All look same? A comparison of experience design and service design Relying on failures in design research Solving complex problems through design On academic knowledge production |
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1 September 2010
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1 September 2010
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If a provocative new study is to be believed, the world lives in a situation where American undergraduates monopolize our knowledge of human nature, writes Anand Giridharadas in the New York Times.
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1 September 2010
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| Two new articles in UX Magazine:
Don’t become a digital dinosaur Unusual settings |
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1 September 2010
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1 September 2010
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1 September 2010
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Le Monde newspaper published (Google translation) today a summary of an ethnographic research project on smartphone use by young adult, presented yesterday at a Virgin Mobile press conference in Paris.
The research was conducted by Olivier Aïm of the Celsa Graduate School, Laurence Allard of the Lille 3 University and Joëlle Menrath of Discours & Pratiques. Three key conclusions were mentioned in Le Monde:
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1 September 2010
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21 August 2010
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Martin Kettle thinks the UK has lost sight of next door Europe, trapped as Brits are in their Anglo-centric internet.
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21 August 2010
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The 2010 Finnish National Innovation Strategy contains an important section on demand and user-driven innovation, with user-driven innovation being described as:
As part of the implementation of Finland’s national innovation strategy, the Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy has outlined a policy framework laying down the key elements of a demand and user-driven innovation policy. More info: Downloads: |
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21 August 2010
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This week Google’s Eric Schmidt suggested we may need to invent new identities to escape embarrassing online pasts – while Facebook launched a tool to share users’ locations. So does technology pose a threat to private life? Jemima Kiss reports in The Guardian:
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