Category Technology (general)
Don Norman outlines three challenges for HCI
The ever-increasing complexity of everyday things, the ever-increasing burden of security, authentication, and identification and the ever-increasing use of automation are according to Don Norman the three large, overriding issues in the field of human-computer interaction. After all, he writes…
The Boston Globe interviews Marvin Minsky on book “The Emotion Machine”
Motorola’s Motofone experience website
Dreaming of people-centred RSS feeds
To write a professional blog like Putting People First, one needs to scan a lot of material. In fact, Putting People First would be impossible to compile without the help of RSS. I am subscribed to a great many of…
How long until the mobile is the heart of entertainment?
UN warns on password ‘explosion’ [BBC]
Customer experience strategies revealed as patchy [UsabilityNews]
Temporary ‘social’ cellphone numbers let users stay private [International Herald Tribune]
Book: Frontiers of Capital – Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy
ITU Internet Report 2006 on digital life
The eight edition of the ITU Internet Report, entitled “digital.life”, focuses on consumers and looks at how human lives are being continuously shaped and re-shaped by advances in digital technologies. The report begins by examining the underlying technologies for new…
Nokia Design video scenarios of future mobile device use
Book: Mobile Communications and Society
Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu and Araba Sey Published by the MIT Press How wireless technology is redefining the relationship of communication, technology, and society around the world–in everyday work and…