Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
The Restaurant of the Future at the University of Wageningen investigates the influences on eating behaviour and carries out studies for the food industry. Ceiling cameras record not only what food you selected, but what you almost selected and how…
Joe Lamantia, a New York-based user experience and information architecture consultant, has a very good blog which now also contains a worthwhile article on the emergence of cultural clouds as the newest kind of public commons. By cultural clouds, I’m…
In March this year Trendbuero, the consultancy “for social change”, organised its 13th Trend Day. The topic was “Identity Management – Recognition replaces attention”, with speakers such as Richard Florida, Willem Velthoven of Mediamatic, Norbert Bolz (BANG-Design), Hartmut Esslinger of…
In March, the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (blog) organised a symposium on service design. Some time ago, I reported that videos of three of the presentations (Bill Hollins, Bill Moggridge, and Jørgen Rosted) were online. Meanwhile you can also…
Cross media storytelling, vibrant and fast moving technological and creative developments in cities across Africa and the new plans that Google, Vodafone and Nokia have for the region: these are a few of the things that will be discussed in…
Building on the momentum in social networking for business, IBM Corp. is opening the IBM Center for Social Software in Cambridge, Mass., to research and quantify the effects of social software on workplace productivity. The center will bring together the…
The latest issue of the International Journal of Design is devoted to the cultural aspects of interaction design: “When a group of people, no matter its scale, start sharing common ways of thinking, feeling and living, culture emerges. Culture therefore…
Philips Design magazine used to be published three to four times a year, but the last edition was from July 2007. Now it has been turned into a simple newsletter, that comes to you via email (not rss). The articles…
NLab is a lab developed by the Faculty of the Humanities of De Montfort University in Leicester, UK to connect creative businesses with writers and generate pioneering partnerships. In June they organised a very interesting one-day conference on social networks…
Philips’ new sex toy range, in other words. Here some excerpts from today’s press release: Philips launches new category of ‘Relationship Care’ with intimate massagers for couples Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHI) today announced the launch of a new category…
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Hardcover) by Tom Boellstorff Princeton University Press Hardcover, 2008, 328 pages Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second…
Digital technology is changing the everyday forms and experience of money. Cheryl Miller reports on the Research@Intel blog how field research by Intel’s People & Practices Research team identified key themes and opportunities for technological innovation. The researchers presented their…
Two of the three Nokia presentations at the LIFT Asia conference are now online. Raphael Grignani (Nokia Design, USA) talked about how Nokia Design addresses environmental and social issues including recycling, energy and making the benefits of mobile technology available…
The Adaptive City is the title of an excellent essay by Dan Hill on recent ideas around urban informatics and urban information design, the impact of real-time data and collaborative planning on urban form, and most of all the changing…
The upcoming New York Times Magazine has a long feature on the effects of News Feed, Twitter and other forms of incessant online contact. “Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient…
Nicolas Nova and Bruno Giussani have been blogging two of the LIFT Asia conference sessions that took place in Seoul today. Session: Networked city The new digital layers provided by ICTs are transforming contemporary urban environments. What does that mean…
The September-October issue of Interactions Magazine has been published and is now shipping to all members of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). The rest of us can access some limited content online (three articles in the current…
Ofcom, , the UK communications regulator, today published an initial consultation document assessing how the mobile sector delivers on the needs of UK citizens and consumers and posing questions about the future of competition and regulatory policy. Ofcom’s aims for…
While hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on digital inclusion projects in Latin America, many of the programs start and end with the technology, writes CNET News (as part of its ongoing series exploring computing in Latin America).…
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser Basic Books, 2008 Hardcover, 288 pages This new book, which grew out of the digital natives project at Harvard University’s Berkman Center, investigates “what it…