Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Communications
Enlarging the Davos Conversation
The World Economic Forum will be using new Web applications to extend the discussions at the Annual Meeting 2007 (Davos, Switzerland, 24-28 January – summary programme) to a much wider audience. Held under the theme Shaping the Global Agenda: The…
UK foresight studies identify emerging trends over the next 50 years
Via the BBC I found out about the Sigma and Delta foresight scans, with nearly 250 papers that look ahead at developments over the next 50 years. The research was commissioned by the UK Office of Science and Innovation‘s Horizon…
Fiat engages in online dialogue with its customers
Nokia research on shared phone practices
What happens when people share an object that is inherently designed for personal use? Jan Chipchase and Indri Tulusan of Nokia Research set out explore this topic during a July 2006 field study in Uganda with a brief to understand…
Motorola’s Motofone experience website
How long until the mobile is the heart of entertainment?
ITU Internet Report 2006 on digital life
The eight edition of the ITU Internet Report, entitled “digital.life”, focuses on consumers and looks at how human lives are being continuously shaped and re-shaped by advances in digital technologies. The report begins by examining the underlying technologies for new…
Book: Mobile Communications and Society
Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu and Araba Sey Published by the MIT Press How wireless technology is redefining the relationship of communication, technology, and society around the world–in everyday work and…
Experientia shows gesture-based interface at international art fair
Waking up to a surveillance society
Customer-centric digital signage in retail environments
“A retail executive who is considering a digital signage system shouldn’t let the tail wag the dog,” writes Peter Vrettas in Extended Retail Solutions. “Content, rather than hardware or software, drives digital signage. And the best digital signage systems are…
Google’s VP of user experience makes cover of Newsweek
Ethnography and philanthropy: giving is aspiring
User-generated content uncovered: power to the people [Digital Bulletin]
Two new thematic Experientia blogs
Experientia, the international experience design consultancy, launches today two new thematic blogs: E-Democracy is aimed at public authorities. It gathers information on citizen participation and the use of web 2.0 technologies in the websites of public authorities, public administrations and…
BBC Wap use flourishing in Africa
Africa, in particular Nigeria, is dominating international mobile phone access to the BBC’s website. According to July’s statistics, 61% of the BBC’s international Wap users came from Nigeria and 19% from South Africa. Africa is the world’s largest-growing mobile phone…