Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Culture
Living a second life [The Economist]
No more SMS from Jesus: ubicomp, religion and techno-spiritual practices
In a reflective and insightful paper, Dr. Genevieve Bell, a highly respected anthropologist and director of user experience at Intel, analyses the use of technology to support religious practices. Bell argues that “the ways in which new technologies are delivering…
Yahoo! study on the internet, Family 2.0 and the 43-hour day [Reuters]
Philips developed emotional clothing prototypes
ZIBA Design’s search for the soul of the Chinese consumer
The Principles of Play [Metropolis Magazine]
52 percent of MySpace users are over 35
Design to the people! [International Herald Tribune]
European vs. American mobile phone use
‘Digital natives’ changing office culture and news organisations
Cellphones top Iraqi cool list [The New York Times]
“Cellphones have long been considered status symbols in developing countries, Iraq included. But in an environment [like Iraq] where hanging out is potentially life threatening, cellphones are also a window into dreams and terrors, the macabre local sense of humor…
The dashboard as metaphor for the next wave in technological culture
Couple-surfing to enhance cyber-love [Reuters]
More information on Dott, the UK regional design initiative
Dott is a ten year programme of design innovation, initiated by the Design Council, that will take place every two years in a different region or nation across the UK. The programme encourages the innovative use of design as contribution…
Studying the museum visitors’ experience at Museolab
Nicolas Nova writes in his blog Pasta and Vinegar about the research structure Museolab [website in French], within Lyon’s future museum Musée des Confluences (architecture by Coop Himmelblau), that “aims at inventing, experimenting and validating technologies and services that would improve…
Experiencing digitally resurrected cultural heritage sites
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.…