Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Technology (general)
A PC for peasant farmers? China targets digital divide.
The Christian Science Monitor reports on how China’s computermakers tap vast rural market with simple tools and local officials’ support. Lenovo, the world’s third-largest computermaker and China’s best-known global brand, chose China’s northeastern town of Langfang to “launch its assault…
Picnic07: Swisscom anthropologist on why everything is moving into the background
Universities, design, user experience and innovation
Howard Rheingold and Mark Earls on mass collaboration
Donald Norman on the importance of unmet needs
Robots turn off senior citizens in ageing Japan
The French and their mobiles
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 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…