Category Technology
Ferrari on the importance of understanding users
“The user as an unconscious sensor of the environment” was the title of Antonio Calvosa’s (Ferrari S.p.A.) keynote speech today at the Ubicomp conference in Innsbruck, Austria. Abstract: This talk adheres to the vision that in order to bring key…
Facebook suicide: the end of a virtual life
Explosion in digital cameras leads to most documented kids ever
Making technology fit users
Your cheatin’ heart leaves tell-tale e- trail
Singapore Polytechnic’s diploma in experience design
The ancient tradition of Moroccan storytelling threatened by entertainment technology
Motorola on ambient non-intrusive displays
New French research on collective mobile phone use
New technologies and the ergonomic risk to users
BT’s Crossing the Divide project
The ultimate user experience: technologically-mediated sex, erotica and BDSM
Bruce Sterling lecture in Torino, Italy
Bruce Sterling will be speaking on his recent book “Shaping Things” in Torino, Italy on Thursday 27 September at 6pm. The event will take place at the “Circolo dei Lettori” [Readers Club]. Sterling [wikipedia – blog] is an American science…
Low technologies, high aims
The New York Times reports on how M.I.T. has lately turned its attention toward concrete thinking to improve the lives of the poor” “M.I.T. has nurtured dozens of Nobel Prize winners in cerebral realms like astrophysics, economics and genetics. But…