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Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
From Putting People First

Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

Physical buttons are increasingly rare in modern cars. Most manufacturers are switching to touchscreens – which perform far worse in a test carried out by Swedish...

How Touchless User Interfaces Can Amplify the User Experience
From Putting People First

How Touchless User Interfaces Can Amplify the User Experience

A touchless UI has an edge over devices that require touch interactions because decreasing physical contact is helpful in diverse contexts—from food-processing...

Harvard Business Review discovers design fiction
From Putting People First

Harvard Business Review discovers design fiction

By force of habit, most executives tune down their imagination when strategizing. This is counterproductive, the authors argue. Instead, they offer an alternative...

[Book] The Digital Republic
From Putting People First

[Book] The Digital Republic

How can freedom and democracy survive in a world of powerful digital technologies?

An anthropologist on talking about the metaverse
From Putting People First

An anthropologist on talking about the metaverse

How we describe the metaverse makes a difference – today’s words could shape tomorrow’s reality and who benefits from it

Are digital IDs a “digital road to hell”?
From Putting People First

Are digital IDs a “digital road to hell”?

A report by researchers at New York University warns that biometric and other digital ID systems that are increasingly linked to large-scale human rights violations...

[Book] Everyday Automation
From Putting People First

[Book] Everyday Automation

The first book to take an interdisciplinary and international approach to understanding how our everyday lives are being affected by automated decision-making.

[Book] Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future
From Putting People First

[Book] Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future

Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future invites us to think forward from our present moment of planetary, public and everyday crisis, through the...

[Book] Design Ethnography
From Putting People First

[Book] Design Ethnography

This book advances the practice and theory of design ethnography. It presents a methodologically adventurous and conceptually robust approach to interventional...

Special issue on machine anthropology
From Putting People First

Special issue on machine anthropology

Bringing together a motley crew of social scientists and data scientists, the aim of this special theme issue of Big Data & Society is to explore what an integration...

Qualitative humanities research is crucial to AI
From Putting People First

Qualitative humanities research is crucial to AI

“All research is qualitative; some is also quantitative” Harvard Social Scientist and Statistician Gary King

Global Happiness and Well-being Policy Report
From Putting People First

Global Happiness and Well-being Policy Report

In the three years since the last Global Happiness and Well-Being Policy Report, governments have faced a cascade of challenges to the well-being of their populations...

The search engine for UX research
From Putting People First

The search engine for UX research

The people behind Research Bookmark, a vast online collection of UX research resources, have - after months of researching and experimenting - released a search...

Peter Merholz speaking in Torino
From Putting People First

Peter Merholz speaking in Torino

Peter Merholz will be speaking in Torino (Turin, Italy) on Wednesday 8 June. The 9am morning talk will take place in the courtyard of the Circle of Design.

[Book] Expand: Stretching the Future By Design
From Putting People First

[Book] Expand: Stretching the Future By Design

From transforming the ways we do business and reimagining health care, to creating planet-restoring housing and humanizing our digital lives in an age of AI, Expand...

Systems thinking for public servants
From Putting People First

Systems thinking for public servants

How to use systems thinking to drive improved outcomes in complex situations.

[Book] Human-Centered Data Science: An Introduction
From Putting People First

[Book] Human-Centered Data Science: An Introduction

Best practices for addressing the bias and inequality that may result from the automated collection, analysis, and distribution of large datasets.

[Book] Behavioral Insights
From Putting People First

[Book] Behavioral Insights

The definitive introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems.

Behavioral science driven public policy “led astray”
From Putting People First

Behavioral science driven public policy “led astray”

Many behavioral scientists propose and test interventions that attack policy problems by seeking to change individual behavior (adopting an “i-frame”) rather than...

Privacy is a collective concern
From Putting People First

Privacy is a collective concern

It’s easy to assume that because some data is “personal”, protecting it is a private matter. But privacy is both a personal and a collective affair, because data...
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