Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
The debate continues: scientists say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information from e-mail and other interruptions. The New York Times reports. “Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people…
Clay Shirky and Nicholas Carr post contrasting video’s in the Saturday Essay of the Wall Street Journal Amid the silly videos and spam are the roots of a new reading and writing culture, says Clay Shirky. “The case for digitally-driven…
Filmmaker Declan McCormack looks at how mobile phones and the internet are changing lives in east Africa. McCormack is a filmmaker who has spent much of the last five years documenting the successes and failures of business-oriented development projects in…
Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, addressed yesterday’s 2nd Annual Internet of Things Conference in Brussels, with a speech entitled “Bringing European values to the Internet of Things”. “Our citizens may not always want…
In Growing Up Online, the American public affairs series FRONTLINE takes viewers inside the very public private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming childhood. “The Internet and the digital world was…
On 20 May 2010 an event known as “Digital Death Day” brought together the businesses of social networking, data management and death care. One of its organisers, Jennifer Holmes, says: “We have reached a critical mass of personal data online.”…
Meta Products is a fairly new blog (started in September 2009) related to developments on the Internet of Things. It is run by Wimer Hazenberg and Menno Huisman, both managing partners at Dutch design studio Booreiland. “Meta Products are the…
Let’s face it, says Bright Simons, Director at IMANI-Ghana and President of the mPedigree Network, Africa is on the downward slope to perdition as far as technology is concerned. “Many people who are not directly confronted with this reality on…
Experience Design: Technology for All the Right Reasons Marc Hassenzahl Morgan & Claypool, 2010 In his In the blink of an eye, Walter Murch, the Oscar-awarded editor of The English Patient, Apocalypse Now, and many other outstanding movies, devises the…
BeAware, an EU-supported research project, has created a solution to motivate and empower citizens to become active energy consumers, by offering them the opportunity to raise awareness of their own power consumption in real time. Energy Life includes a mobile…
Tinker London (the team promoting the use of Arduino in design) started a collaboration with EDF R&D on Homesense, an open user-centered research project investigating the use of smart and networked technologies in the home. Homesense will bring the open…
Interacting with a mobile device is very different from our interaction with desktop devices. But what does that mean precisely? In a long article for the Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, Luca Chittaro of the HCI Lab at the University…
This week’s Economist contains a special report on television. The leader article presents television as the great survivor, which has coped well with technological change: “It helps that TV is an inherently lazy form of entertainment. The much-repeated prediction that…
Gary Wolf reflects in the upcoming New York Times Magazine on what happens when technology can analyze “every quotidian thing that happened to you today.” “Numbers make problems less resonant emotionally but more tractable intellectually. In science, in business and…
Harnessing the rich detail, creativity, and individual relevance of personal narratives, Shareable.net and Latitude Research co-sponsored an innovation study to explore food information needs, information accessibility in decision-making contexts (e.g. while food shopping), and technology solutions for the future of…
The latest issue of Interactions Magazine is about the spread of design into new areas, write editor Jon Kolko: “The process of design is spreading into new areas of society and business, and as it does, our work gets more…
Alexander Schellong, a senior consultant with CSC’s public sector management practice, and Philipp Mueller, director of the Center for Public Management and Governance at the Salzburg University Business School, write in the Harvard International Review on the fundamentals of network…
iFixit launched today today a “global repair community†with the aim being user-level repairs of any device. CrunchGear comments: “Such a project is well-timed; the relationship between user and manufacturer is becoming more one-sided. It doesn’t trouble you that the…
The social networking phenomenon has ushered in a shift in mindset that, in turn, has driven people to become actively engaged in generating their own content and sharing it with an international audience on the Web, in contrast to the…
Interesting, this point of view from the Samsung Economic Research Institute: “As demand for CRT display devices winds down and the penetration rates of TVs and PCs in advanced markets rises, the rise in demand for display devices is forecast…