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Various articles on the power of the mobile phone in emerging markets
Putting people first —
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A number of articles illustrate the power of the mobile phone in emerging markets: What next after the Mobile revolution in Kenya? by John Karanja MPESA will be on its own a major driver of the economic expansion of the Kenyan economy and best of all it will take a bottom up approach because it will empower the ...1 week ago -
May the (Tactile) Force Be With You
DESIGNING *for humans —
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Here at Bresslergroup we have recently started using a force-sensing "glove" for ergonomic research and analysis. We use the FingerTPS ("tactile pressure sensing") system from Pressure Profile Systems. Both the hardware and software are very easy to set-up and use; and weve been applying it to a range of ...1 week ago -
Nokia has designs on India
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Nokia’s senior design specialists are touring India to discover how Indians use cellphones. Leslie D’Monte reports for New Delhi’s Business Standard. Jhanvi Madan (not her real name), who lives in Mumbai , has been talking on her cellphone. Unknown to her, a stranger on the other side of the road is observing ...2 weeks ago -
Accenture says tech-driven approach to CE innovation outdated
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Consumer electronics companies must rethink the old technology-driven approach to innovation because industry convergence has made this model obsolete, claims a study by Accenture . In the converging world, “high-performance businesses in the CE industry have begun to embrace a consumer-engagement-driven model of ...2 weeks ago -
Book: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
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Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out Kids Living and Learning with New Media (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning) An examination of young people’s everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and ...2 weeks ago -
Designing mobile money services for emerging markets
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Nokia user researcher Jan Chipchase has posted an in-depth presentation and paper on designing mobile money services for emerging markets: “Hang around a telecoms industry conference long enough and you start to get big-number fatigue – as one stack of seemingly impressive statistic blurs into the next. The ...2 weeks ago -
Social isolation and new technology
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The Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey finds that Americans are not as isolated as has been previously reported. People’s use of the mobile phone and the internet is associated with larger and more diverse discussion networks. And, when we examine people’s full personal network – their strong ...3 weeks ago -
It’s OK To Poke
Mike McCready —
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Growing up our parents use to tell us its not nice to poke our brother or sister, but we never really listened. Now that lack of listening can pay off. Lately at work there has been a lot of experimentation with software, processes, methodologies, etc. When talking to my colleagues, I’ve referred to this ...3 weeks ago -
Understanding users of social networks
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Harvard Business School professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski has spent years studying users of online social networks (SN) and has developed surprising findings about the needs that they fulfill, how men and women use these services differently, and how Twitter—the newest kid on the block—is sharply different from ...3 weeks ago -
Nov-Dec 2009 edition of Interactions magazine online
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The November-December edition of Interactions Magazine is online and some articles are available without subscription. Unfortunately, the main menu page doesn’t say which articles are publicly available (although without images) and which aren’t (what about ‘affordances’ in web design?), so I have selected ...4 weeks ago -
Videos of keynote speeches at Seoul design research conference
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Last week, the IASDR 2009 conference (International Association of Societies of Design Research) took place in Seoul, South Korea, and all videos of the keynote speeches are already available. Donald A. Norman: Science and Design I start with three contradictory views: First, that a science of design is already ...4 weeks ago -
SuperRacing presentation at Oz-IA
USiT —
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On Friday the 2nd of October, two of the USiT team (Pat and Alun) gave a presentation at the first day of Oz-IA 2009, the 4th Australian Information Architecture conference. The presentation told the story, in 25 minutes, of the research and design for the SuperRacing website. The slides are shown below. Bringing ...4 weeks ago -
Computerworld New Zealand on user-centred web design
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Computerworld New Zealand introduces user-centred web design. Introducing user-centred web design The first article in this series introduces the idea of User-Centred Design (UCD) — a design process that concentrates on designing websites for the people who will use them; rather than to embody the latest trends ...4 weeks ago -
the speed of the mobile web, part 1: user perception
Little Springs Design —
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Last week, Gomez published "Why the Mobile Web is Disappointing End-Users,” which you can read online at Scribd . In summary, huge numbers of users are reporting problems with the mobile web, with download time the number one problem. While this seems simple, it really isnt. Consider my ongoing experience on my ...4 weeks ago
