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Here is my selection on papers related to social applications presented at CHI 2008.
(Papers are linked to their pdf downloads, if available.) Ambient social tv: drawing people into a shared experience [abstract] Results from deploying a participation incentive mechanism within the enterprise [abstract] Exploring the role of the reader in the activity of blogging [abstract] The network in the garden: an empirical analysis of social media in rural life [abstract] Healthcare in everyday life: designing healthcare services for daily life [abstract] International ethnographic observation of social networking sites [abstract] |
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3 May 2008
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1 May 2008
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Clay Shirky, author of the book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organising without Organisations (see also these posts), was one of the presenters at the Web 2.0 conference:
Mark Ury, chief experience architect for Blast Radius, was there and wrote about it on his blog “The Restless Mind”:
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10 April 2008
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Last year’s conference “Innovation Forum Interaction Design” focused on all aspects of interface and interaction design: mobile telephone and media interfaces, problem solutions and product visions, web pages and virtual worlds, art and commerce, business and science.
Speakers included Gillian Crampton Smith, Anthony Dunne, Tim Edler, Frank Jacob, Gesche Joost, Bernard Kerr, Patrick Kochlik, Kristjan Kristjansson, Bill Moggridge, Dennis Paul, Mike Richter and Bruce Sterling. (via Bruce Sterling) |
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1 March 2008
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Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news, according to a new survey, Reuters reports.
But aren’t those the results you would expect when doing an online poll? - Read full story |
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7 February 2008
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Over the last few weeks, I have been watching five documentary series. All of them deeply thought provoking and none of them directly related to the topic of this blog (although three of them deal with psychology and people’s behaviours - the other two focus on the future of technology). I think they are really worth spending your time on and they are can all be found on Google video.
Three of the series are by Adam Curtis, a brilliant British television documentary maker who works for BBC Current Affairs. He is noted for making programmes which express a clear (and sometimes controversial) opinion about their subject, and for narrating the programmes himself.
The two other programmes are narrated by Michio Kaku, an American theoretical physicist, specialising in string field theory, and futurist.
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2 February 2008
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In a previous post I wrote how it would be a good idea for the publishers of Interactions Magazine to make the magazine content available online. It just happened.
Here is the announcement by Scott Delman, ACM Group Publisher:
Although the above announcement message is aimed at subscribers only, the online version of the January-February edition of the magazine is really available to all - and I sincerely hope it is not a one off thing. Communications, the ACM flagship publication on computing research, is also going online (press release). |
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18 January 2008
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This morning I received a print copy of Interactions Magazine with the mail.
Wow. It looks, feels, and reads exactly like a magazine for our profession should be. Why did no one think of this before? It contains a lot of in-depth articles by people I respect or others I am curious about. It is the ideal magazine to take with you and read on the road or on a couch. Another first impression is that Richard Anderson and Jon Kolko, the editors-in-chief, have gone out of their way to transcend an American perspective on the profession: from the British Elizabeth Churchill, to the Austrian Telecommunications Research Center, and from Stefana Broadbent and Valerie Bauwens of Swisscom Innovations, to South African Gary Marsden and the Beijing-based Gabriel White. I applaud this commitment very much, especially since many USA-based blogs and publications do not take this global view, or assume - wrongly - that the American view equals the global view. So bravo to the two editors in chief for the direction taken, and bravo to ACM, the publishers, of providing them with this opportunity. The ACM advertising department has a golden opportunity now: the new “Interactions” approach is out there, but the advertising hasn’t caught up. It’s still very much old style. Some fresh and creative approaches there could make Interactions Magazine a really sustainable publication. Once I have finished reading the whole magazine, I will definitely write something more in-depth. Meanwhile, Richard and Jon, keep on going in this direction. I hope ACM will take the logical next step: making the articles available online. I am also curious to hear where ACM (an abbreviation which stands for Association for Computing Machinery, a rather awkward name in this day and age) as an organisation wants to go with this, and how it wants to position itself in the new UX landscape. The magazine is silent on that topic. Perhaps ACM’s executive editor or group publisher can be prodded for an article on this in the March-April edition or on the website. In any case, I strongly suggest the readers of this blog to subscribe to the magazine, if you haven’t already done so. It’s only 50 USD. PS. In Boston - Next week my partner Michele Visciola and I (Mark Vanderbeeken) will be in Boston for a client meeting. We will arrive on the 23rd and leave on the 27th. If readers of this blog are in Boston then, it would be nice to meet. Please contact us at info at experientia dot com. |
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4 January 2008
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The increased zeal among copyright holders to clamp down on any hint of piracy by online video sites puts the notion of user-generated content at risk, according to a study from American University’s Center for Social Media, that the New York Times reports on.“The center’s 18-page study, Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video, posits that the aggressive efforts by companies like Viacom and NBC Universal to battle infringement fails to make the distinction between what’s legal and what’s not. Apart from potentially banishing much user-gen video from major sites like MySpace and YouTube, the current climate promotes “a deformed and truncated notion” of the rights of amateur videographers.” Although the article and report are both valid, and the American University is a respected private United Methodist-affiliated institution in Washington, DC, I find it disturbing that The New York Times is now publishing content where the boundaries between editorial and advertising are starting to blur. The “article” is in fact not written by the New York Times, although it is listed in the technology section as editorial content, but by someone who works for “PaidContent.org”, which is a publication of the ContentNext Media network. In fact, a copy of the article can be found on the PaidContent.org website. |
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17 December 2007
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Bruno Giussani posted his running notes of Jeffrey Huang’s inaugural lesson at EPFL, the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
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14 December 2007
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Richard Titus, acting head of user experience at the BBC announced yesterday the launch of the new BBC homepage beta:
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15 September 2007
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Frank Bentley of Motorola recently posted his thoughts on ambient displays, i.e. devices that sit in a person’s periphery and convey information related to an information source in a non-intrusive manner.
His reflection is all about the currently very active field of presence research, though strangely he doesn’t use that word. I very much like the challenges he posts at the end:
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13 September 2007
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A month ago Rosenfeld Media took a more detailed look at six major analyst firms (Aberdeen, AMR, Forrester, Gartner, IDC, and Yankee) to determine if they were paying much attention to user experience.
Now they have repeated their method to assess the UX consciousness of mainstream business publications. So, what was the degree of “UX consciousness” among business publications?
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29 August 2007
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Publishing brands Penguin and Dorling Kindersley, both part of the Penguin Group, recently completed a project to relaunch their websites and improve interaction and navigation for users.
The revamp was pretty far reaching - the team took a user-centred approach, with extensive usability testing and planning, and found new ways to think about marketing books via the site. The group is also set to launch new sites to increase its engagement with customers - one is a youth-oriented site called spinebreakers.co.uk, which is employing teenagers in its development. E-Consultancy, the British online publisher, has posted an interview with Penguin and DK’s online development manager Jeanette Angell, who speaks about the reasons behind the project and the techniques it used. |
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25 August 2007
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Older web users spend more time online than any group, according to the annual report of the UK Office of Communications.
The 330-page report takes a comprehensive look at the way Britons use new and old media and reveals a nation in love with its media, gadgets and hi-tech gear. 16% of Britons aged 65+ spend 42 hours per month online - more than any other age group. Another striking result, especially for traditional-media executives looking for their future customers, is that “kids are abandoning old and not-so-old media for the new. Whereas two years ago 59% of those aged 8 to 15 regularly watched videos, only 38% do now. Two years ago 61% regularly played video games compared with 53% today. Most are abandoning stand-alone media, such as DVDs, and turning instead to media such as the internet and in particular social-networking websites. The trend seems to accelerate as children move into their teenage years. Nearly two-thirds of children between the ages of 12 and 15 use the internet, compared with 41% of those aged 8 to 11.” |
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25 August 2007
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| Piemonte Share Festival announces the second edition of the Share Prize 2008 for digital art.
The competition jury, chaired by Bruce Sterling, will award a prize of 2,500 Euro to the work (published or unpublished) which best represents experimentation between arts and new technologies. The contest is open to any Italian and foreign artist using digital technology as a language of creative expression, in all its shapes and formats and in combination with analogical technologies and/or any other material (i.e. computer animation / visual effects, digital music, interactive art, net art, software art, live cinema/vj, audiovisual performance, etc.). (via Bruce Sterling’s Viridian Design, embellished with Bruce’s personal commentary) |
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25 August 2007
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Magyar Telekom’s new media lab Kitchen Budapest (KiBu), opened in June 2007, is a new media lab for young researchers who are interested in the convergence of mobile communication, online communities and urban space and are passionate about creating experimental projects in cross-disciplinary teams.
Promising idea-makers are provided with undisturbed working conditions and paid scholarships. One of Magyar Telekom’s objectives with this project is to promote new initiatives and creative ideas that later might be competitive on the market.
(via IFTF’s Future Now) UPDATE: 6 OCTOBER 2007: |
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11 August 2007
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Konstfack, the largest university college of arts, crafts and design in Sweden, is starting a two-year masters programme in experience design with a strong arts focus:
The Experience Design Group website - which is a bit of a flash nightmare - presents the programme’s three focus areas:
The programme, which is lead by Ronald Jones, an artist, critic and Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, will start in September. Five blogs are associated with/promoted by the programme:
For more information, do check this 16 page pdf download. |
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7 August 2007
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For some time now I have been following the French innovation blog Internet Actu, not realising that it was part of a bigger initiative called “Fing“. Fing stands for “Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération”, or the the next generation internet foundation, aimed at stimulating and promoting R&D and innovation in ICT uses and services. Here is how they describe themselves in English:
Some browsing around led me to interesting initiatives such as:
Also of interest are a series of videos including this presentation by Fing CEO Daniel Kaplan at LIFT07, as well as a huge amount of rather unorganised project videos from the Crossroads of Possibilities project. |
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26 July 2007
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26 July 2007
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Former Experientia intern Nina Boesch was the designer and programmer (under the creative lead of Lisa Strausfeld) on Pentagram Design’s “Interactive model of Lower Manhattan” that just won an Industrial Design Excellence Award.
Co-sponsored by BusinessWeek magazine and the Industrial Designers Society of America, the Industrial Design Excellence Awards recognise the best product designs of the year. This interactive architectural model of Lower Manhattan is the visual and educational centerpiece of Wall Street Rising’s new Downtown Information Center. It provides information about the area’s history, points of interest and events. The model also serves as a communal space that visitors and residents can gather around, fostering a sense of community. A gyro-mouse is used to navigate and highlight streets, buildings and other sites, and information about the selections is projected onto the model. In addition to practical information, there are also eight short historical documentaries about the area. Nina Boesch was born in 1978 in Bremen, Germany. She studied at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, Germany (where also current Experientia collaborator Marion Fröhlich graduated from) and at the Rhode Island School of Design (where Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels studied and taught and two other current Experientia interns - Laura Cunningham and Young-Eun Han - graduated from). Last year Boesch won the 2006 Adobe Design Achievement Award in the category “interactive media” with her RISD thesis project “Manhattan Dissected“, an interactive application based on a subjectively viewed Manhattan. She started working for the New York Pentagram office after her graduation in 2006. Janina was an Experientia intern in January-February 2006 and worked on several projects, including the design of this blog. |
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