Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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People searching for online health advice favour sites with a human touch, research suggests [BBC]
Mobile communication, a professional social network for mobile society researchers
Young, mobile, but not yet online [The Times]
Belgium’s i-City project tests mobile applications with thousands of users
Demos project on user-led service design in local authorities
Xerox PARC spins off start-up on natural language search [The New York Times]
MIT’s Mobile Experience Lab
The MIT Mobile Experience Lab is a new established research lab within the MIT Design Laboratory. Through its research it aims to radically reinvent and design the connections between people, ideas, physical places and information technologies in order to improve…
Web 2.0 is a mass phenomenon, concludes UK survey
Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels on interaction design
Study on use of tagging released
The TRIL Centre: ethnographic research on ageing to develop healthcare technologies for the elderly
Sentimental journey: on computers and emotions [CIO Magazine]
Harvard Business Review features user-centered innovation as breakthrough idea for 2007
The Harvard Business Review has published its annual list of Breakthrough Ideas for 2007, written out in “twenty essays that will satisfy our demanding readers’ appetite for provocative and important new ideas”. Eric von Hippel wrote the entry entitled “An…
Nokia study on how rural India benefits from mobile communications
Mobile communication is revolutionizing economic and social life in rural India, spawning a wave of local entrepreneurs and creating greater access to social services according to a new study by The Center for Knowledge Societies (CKS) commissioned by Nokia. Mobile…
Nokia Research on Uganda’s Village Phone initiative
Jan Chipchase and Indri Tulusan of Nokia Research are on a roll. Following a July 2006 field study in Uganda, and previous presentations on shared phone practices and street charging services, they now explored the Village Phone initiative between the…
World Economic Forum briefing materials
Nokia research on street charging services in Uganda
Uganda is a country coping with a severe energy crisis resulting in frequent power cuts. In addition, access to mains electricity in rural locations is limited. Given that mobile phones require power, and access to power can be unpredictable –…