Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Experientia
Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites [New Scientist]
Ethnographic studies of ubiquitous computing
Putting the customer in charge [CNN/Business 2.0]
Are virtual worlds the future of the classroom? [CNET News]
Organic launches Experience Labs
Google targets mobile future [BBC]
The ethnography of marketing [Business Week]
The new core competency is ethnography. Companies use it to gain insights into the culture and behavior of their customers. But the demands of business are different from those of an anthropologist doing field research. The most obvious is speed.…
Interaction-Ivrea’s final show
Hooked on the virtual world [International Herald Tribune]
Don Norman on the need to call people people, not customers, not consumers, not users
Transforming everyday objects into game controllers
Control Freaks, the Interaction-Ivrea graduation project of Haiyan Zhang, “explores new gaming experiences that fold the world into play by using existing situations and environments as game playing moments.” “Control Freaks are devices that attach to everyday objects, turning them…
MULE: reclaiming the city through pervasive play
Designing meaningful coincidences
Occasional Coincidences is the title of the Interaction-Ivrea graduation project of Nicholas Zambetti. It looks at how systems that recognize and present meaningful coincidences can be designed. A few days ago, Régine Debatty summarised the project on we-make-money-not-art: “In the…
Discover and experience location-based services
Enabling democracy through communications technology
Morphing and transforming objects as new interfaces
Patchwerk, a social tool to analyse popularity and status in the digital world
Thimble, a location-based social network for lending and renting using reputation as currency
Pooptopia, a pet waste removal urban game
Pooptopia, the Interaction-Ivrea graduation project of Aram Saroyan Armstrong, is a pet waste removal service/game that explores the interplay of service design and entertainment. A few days ago Régine Debatty summarised Pooptopia on her own blog we-make-money-not-art as follows: “Pooptopia…