Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Despite increasing numbers of data-enabled mobile phones it seems that users are lost when it comes to data services. In a survey carried out by mobile software company SurfKitchen not one mobile phone user could correctly identify the data package…
From 21st to 23rd September 2005 the First World Conference on the Future of Science will be held in Venice, Italy. The idea of this conference arises from the awareness that the problems/ questions generated by the enormous scientific and…
The French “buzz marketing” agency Nouveau Jour has been collaborating with the creative team of fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier on a new online section for the designer, conceived as a virtual world to experience and share chance encounters. In addition…
As the new vice-president of the user experience and design group at Yahoo! Inc., Larry Tesler is charged with fine-tuning some of the Internet’s primest real estate: the Yahoo.com home page. Read full story
The Economist has just published a survey of higher education (which can be viewed without subscription) and argues in an editorial that the state of Europe’s higher education is a long-term threat to its competitiveness. Europe’s only chance of preserving…
Glocalmap.to (site currently in Italian only) is a large-scale cultural “social tagging” project that integrates web mapping, thematic tagging and mobile phone messaging, to create a new urban narrative for the city of Turin. It allows citizens and visitors alike…
The Interaction Design Group(IxDG), an international community of people who are practicing, teaching and studying interaction design, just launched a new Resource Library. The Library is a repository of information about interaction design (IxD) that the IxDG community has…
As part of Turin’s Olympic Truce activites, the city’s government bodies are promoting an international meeting on 19-20 September 2005 to discuss cooperation, best practices and financial tools to narrow the “digital divide” as a guarantee for ensuring just and…
> The yearly CHI conferences are the premier international meeting place for human-computer interaction. The next edition, CHI 2006, will take place in Montreal, Canada on April 22-27, 2006. A call for participation has just been posted. Submissions are organised…
One of the first activities of the newly founded Launch Institute is a conference on empathic market sensing on 20-21 September in Hamburg, Germany. Empathic market sensing builds upon voice-of-the-customer and observational “applied ethnography†techniques to dive deeply into how…
The HP research on Innovation for Emerging Economies is done from Bangalore, India, where they tackle such issues as the access divide, the communications divide, the need for contextual design, the language divide and the lack of sustainable business ecologies…
Intel’s People and Practices Research Lab engages the techniques of social science (including anthropology and ethnography) and design in order develop a deep understanding of how people live and work. This knowledge is then translated into insights for guiding corporate…
Like many large IT companies, Intel has tribes of anthropologists and social scientists on the books, and these people have considerable input on the way the company develops new products and platforms. The teams are especially prominent in Intel’s efforts…
Accenture Technology Labs, the technology research and development organisation within Accenture, is at the intersection of business and technology, exploring the impact of new and emerging technologies on business in the future. Its research in “workforce performance and user experience”…
Since the launch of i-mode in 1999, NTT DoCoMo introduced numerous mobile services that shifted the concept of mobile phones from talking devices to multimedia tools. And now, NTT DoCoMo has further expanded the range of mobile phone usage by…
Receiver is Vodafone’s magazine for future thinkers. It is conceived as a neutral space, where thinkers discuss future-oriented aspects of communications technologies. Started four years ago as a platform for exchange about how innovations in this sector affect societies worldwide,…
The Sony Ericsson website now contains an “Experiences” section with small visual scenarios of how mobile phone functionalities can provide added value to our lives. Or in their own marketing language: “It’s all about combining your emotions with our technology…
Whether it is wafting lavender or citrus scents to calm drivers and keep them awake, or vibrating seat belts to get them to slow down, smart cars in the future could help reduce road accidents. Dr Charles Spence, an experimental…
The August issue of Siemens Journal introduces Horizons2020, a Siemens foresight study on European life in 2020. Rather than attempting to predict the future, Siemens hopes that Horizons2020 will intensify public discussions and invite people to think about changes that…
“Smart Internet 2010” was an 18-month project conducted by Australia’s technology research consortium, the Smart Internet Technology CRC, to examine what the internet might evolve into by 2010 and the implications for end-users. The report was spearheaded by leading…