Category Devices

Devices, Experientia, HCD / UXD, Innovation, Interaction design, Prototype

How touchless user interfaces can amplify the user experience

A touchless UI has an edge over devices that require touch interactions because decreasing physical contact is helpful in diverse contexts—from food-processing plants to an airport’s self-service registration kiosks.

Experientia
21 Jun 2022

Devices, Innovation

Haptics devices cannot replicate physical contact

Image: Under A Volcano (2020) by Stephanie Temma Hier. Courtesy the artist and Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles.

Haptics devices probably won’t ever live up to their promise to replicate physical contact, writes David Parisi (associate professor, College of Charleston) in the online Real Life magazine.

Experientia
16 Mar 2022

Devices, Sustainability

One year on, has the French repair index kept its promises?

Analysis of the outcomes of the French repairability index, how it affects repairers and how consumers feel about it.

Experientia
7 Mar 2022

Devices, Ethnography, Identity / Privacy, Socio-cultural change

An anthropologist on Facebook’s new “Ray-Ban Stories” glasses

With this product, writes anthropologist Sally Applin in MIT's Technology Review, "Facebook is claiming the face as real estate for its own technology."

Experientia
23 Oct 2021

Behavioral sciences, Devices, Experientia, HCD / UXD, Health, Healthcare, Participation, Service design

Digital for Care – Free Experientia report

Download free Experientia report on key trends and design challenges in home and remote care when patient and caregivers use online platforms and on-body health devices

Experientia
4 Oct 2021

Behavioral sciences, Devices, Experientia, HCD / UXD, Health, Healthcare, Participation, Service design

Digital for Care – Rapporto gratuito di Experientia

Rapporto gratuito su tendenze chiave e sfide di design nell'assistenza a domicilio e a distanza quando il paziente e i caregiver usano piattaforme online e dispositivi per la salute.

Experientia
4 Oct 2021

Behavioral sciences, Devices, Identity / Privacy, Internet of Things, Technology (general)

Understanding the human aspects of cyber security

CyberBitsEtc. is a website and blog by Ganna Pogrebna (Professor of Behavioural Economics and Data Science, Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute) and Boris Taratine (Cyber Security Architect and Visionary) that focuses a lot on the human aspects of cyber security, in particular behavioural design, psychology and behavioural sciences.

Experientia
24 Jun 2021

Devices, Socio-cultural change, Technology (general)

How constant tech is breaking our brains

Fast Company spoke with tech pioneer Jaron Lanier, Microsoft CVP Emma Williams and Stanford professor Jeremy Bailenson.

Experientia
11 Oct 2020

Devices, Ethnography

Google’s ethnographic research on selfies

The Gogle Wellbeing Lab joined up with the company's Pixel team to run an ethnographic study across four countries, examining the relationship people in the United States, Germany, India, and South Korea had with their selfies.

Experientia
4 Oct 2020

Book, Devices, Ethnography

Nicolas Nova: we have to learn how to domesticate our smartphones

Sur la base d'une enquête de terrain menée Genève, Los Angeles et Tokyo, cet ouvrage aborde la dimension proprement anthropologique du smartphone.

Experientia
8 Sep 2020

Book, Devices, Ethnography, Socio-cultural change

[Book] Smartphones: Une enquête anthropologique

Sur la base d'une enquête de terrain menée à Genève, Los Angeles et Tokyo, cet ouvrage aborde la dimension proprement anthropologique du smartphone.

Experientia
11 Jun 2020

Devices, Research, Socio-cultural change, Teens

Amy Orben: To talk about smartphones affecting the brain is a slippery slope

The psychologist Amy Orben talks about the widespread fear that smartphones are harmful to our wellbeing - and the difficulty of proving it

Experientia
3 Feb 2020

Devices, Research

Designing for digital well-being

Smartphone attachment is so prevalent that the fear of being without a phone has a name: nomophobia, writes Elizabeth Churchill in Interactions. What can be done to manage such unhealthy attachments?

Experientia
18 Jan 2020

Devices, Ethnography, Research, Socio-cultural change

Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing

The Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing, a multi-sited research project based at UCL Anthropology, employs a team of 11 anthropologists conducting simultaneous 16-month ethnographies in Ireland, Italy, Cameroon, Uganda, Brazil, Chile, Al-Quds, China, and Japan.

Experientia
23 Dec 2019

Asia, Book, Developing markets, Devices, Technology (general), UserResearch

[Book] The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West

The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West by Payal Arora Harvard University Press, 2019 280 pages A digital anthropologist examines the online lives of millions of people in China, India, Brazil, and across the Middle East – home…

Experientia
16 Feb 2019

Book, Devices, Ethnography, HCD / UXD, Technology (general), UserResearch

[Book] Left to Our Own Devices

Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus Margaret E. Morris MIT Press, 2018 192 pages Unexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working through conflict with…

Experientia
11 Jan 2019

Book, Devices, Ethnography, HCD / UXD, Internet of Things, Sharing, Socio-cultural change, UserResearch

[Book] Left to Our Own Devices

Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus By Margaret E. Morris MIT Press, November 2018, 192 pages Unexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working through…

Experientia
1 Oct 2018

AR / VR / Metaverse, Book, Devices, Internet of Things, Technology (general)

UX and Service Design for Connected Products

UX and Service Design for Connected Products by Claire Rowland Digital Catapult, 2018, 36 pages (via IoT.uk) There are a huge variety of applications in IoT spanning connected products and hardware enabled services. Consumer products such as home lighting and…

Experientia
19 Jun 2018

Devices, Foresight, HCD / UXD, Internet of Things, Methods, Scenarios, Technology (general)

Ambient contextuality, the next big game-changer in technology interface

Jim Hunter, chief scientist and technology evangelist at Greenwave Systems, predicts in TechCrunch that the next big game-changer in technology interface is ambient contextuality. “Ambient contextuality hinges on the idea that there is information hidden all around us that helps…

Experientia
25 Apr 2018

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