Category Technology (general)

Behavioral sciences, Identity / Privacy, Socio-cultural change, Technology (general)

The drive for privacy and the difficulty of achieving it in the digital age

People care and act to manage their privacy, but face steep psychological and economic hurdles that make not just desired, but also desirable privacy nearly unattainable. Approaches to privacy management that rely purely on market forces and consumer responsibilization have failed.

Experientia
9 Aug 2021

AI, Conference, Education, Educational services, Experientia, Experientia, Health, Healthcare, Italy, Jan-Christoph Zoels, Mobility, Public services, Technology (general), Turin

Videos online of “Humanizing technology through design” conference

Curated by Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels and Sara Fortunati, director of the Torino Circle of Design, the conference dealt with the best international practices about the humanization of technology. It was structured into six different thematic sessions: ethics, public services, healthcare, AI, mobility and learning. All videos are now available, with English subtitles.

Experientia
25 Jul 2021

Behavioral sciences, Identity / Privacy, Technology (general)

Review and insight on the behavioral aspects of cybersecurity

Since the majority of cyber incidents are human enabled, this shift requires expanding research to underexplored areas such as behavioral aspects of cybersecurity. This paper provides a review of relevant theories and principles, and gives insights including an interdisciplinary framework that combines behavioral cybersecurity, human factors, and modeling and simulation.

Experientia
24 Jun 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

Data, Ethnography, Innovation, Research, Technology (general)

The human factor — why data is not enough to understand the world

In a world shaped by one AI, artificial intelligence, we need a second AI, too — anthropology intelligence, writes Gillian Tett in the Financial Times.

Experientia
28 May 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

Developing markets, Participation, Sustainability, Technology (general)

Lack of partnership with key community members causes ICT4D projects to fail

The main lesson is that even a nearly imperceptible deviation from the full inclusion of all relevant parties in every aspect of the project can result in large deviations from the expected outcomes

Experientia
25 Sep 2020

Book, Scenarios, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability, Technology (general)

[Book] Slow computing

Drawing on the ideas of the "slow movement", Slow Computing sets out numerous practical and political means to take back control and counter the more pernicious effects of living digital lives.

Experientia
10 Sep 2020

HCD / UXD, Technology (general)

UX designer breaks down the “malicious” design of Trump’s campaign website

While UX designers are trained to be on the side of the user, there are ways that the user experience can be manipulated to be in favor of the "product" in this case, a candidate. UX designer Mary Formanek broke down how this worked in an interview with Salon.

Experientia
21 Aug 2020

AI, Educational services, Technology (general), User research

Why computing belongs within the social sciences

This article argues [that] the well-publicized social ills of computing will not go away simply by integrating ethics instruction or codes of conduct into computing curricula. The remedy to these ills instead lies less in philosophy and more in fields…

Experientia
20 Aug 2020

Behavioral sciences, HCD / UXD, Technology (general)

Security isn’t just a technology problem – it’s about design, too

While it's easy to blame the user, phishing schemes have become incredibly sophisticated and believable. So, instead of blaming the user, we want to instead bring an empathetic lens, and understand more about their needs.

Experientia
26 Jul 2020

Culture, Identity / Privacy, Technology (general)

Five short papers on online privacy by Carissa Véliz

Carissa Véliz is a philosopher and ethicist who works on digital ethics, practical ethics more generally, political philosophy, and public policy

Experientia
3 Mar 2020

Ethnography, Technology (general)

Special issue on digital ethnography

This special issue of the Journal of Digital Social Research collects the confessions of five digital ethnographers laying bare their methodological failures, disciplinary posturing, and ethical dilemmas.

Experientia
2 Mar 2020

Foresight, Participation, Public services, Technology (general)

The future of digital democracy

The Brussels-based digital participation platform CitizenLab asked 12 digital democracy experts to share their predictions on the future of digital democracy

Experientia
28 Feb 2020

Business, Socio-cultural change, Technology (general)

NYTimes Magazine special issue on the future of the internet

In this special issue, the New York Times Magazine has tried to see the internet and its likely future as best as they can, in the hope that - after decades as imagining it as a utopia, and then a few years as seeing it as a dystopia - we might finally begin to see it for what it is, which is a set of powerful technologies in the midst of some serious flux.

Experientia
14 Nov 2019

Developing markets, Public services, Research, Technology (general)

The digital lives of refugees [Research report]

There is growing recognition among donors and humanitarian organisations that mobile technology and mobile network operators (MNOs) have an important role to play in the delivery of dignified aid. This includes providing digital tools that help people affected by crisis…

Experientia
17 Jul 2019

AI, Industry sectors, Innovation, Technology (general)

Ten arguments against algorithmic decision making

Against the Dehumanisation of Decision-Making – Algorithmic Decisions at the Crossroads of Intellectual Property, Data Protection, and Freedom of Information by Dr Guido Noto La Diega, Senior Lecturer in Law at the Northumbria University Law School Published in JIPITEC (Journal…

Experientia
24 Feb 2019

Asia, Book, Developing markets, Devices, Technology (general), User research

[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), User research

[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

Data, Ethnography, Health, Healthcare, Sustainability, Technology (general), User research

Intel anthropologist Dawn Nafus interview on the use of data and technology in medical contexts

In an age where we can collect and store (forEVER) every second of every day, how much do we truly need to learn? To react? To do good deeds that benefit society? Assuming we champion that, what does it mean…

Experientia
22 Dec 2018