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Radical user-centricity, a key RegTech success factor
From Putting People First

Radical user-centricity, a key RegTech success factor

One of the key success factors of Regulatory Technology ("RegTech") is a commitment to radical user-centricity, according to a new white paper by the World Economic...

System 1 vs. System 2 thinking: Why it isn’t strategic to always be rational
From Putting People First

System 1 vs. System 2 thinking: Why it isn’t strategic to always be rational

People believe that slow and deliberative thinking is inherently superior to fast and intuitive thinking. The truth is more complicated.

Internet users are ‘poisoning’ their personal data in the fight against online surveillance
From Putting People First

Internet users are ‘poisoning’ their personal data in the fight against online surveillance

With 'obfuscation' or 'data poisoning,' they are redoubling their efforts to prevent companies from tracking them online, writes Aurélien Defer in Le Monde. But...

[Book] Livable Proximity
From Putting People First

[Book] Livable Proximity

Ezio Manzini's ideas for the city that cares.

Three interviews on UX research and anthropology
From Putting People First

Three interviews on UX research and anthropology

The Response-ability Summit, formerly known as the Anthropology + Technology Conference, is a unique two-day event that brings social scientists and technologists...

Behavioral sciences in the latest IPCC report on the Mitigation of Climate Change
From Putting People First

Behavioral sciences in the latest IPCC report on the Mitigation of Climate Change

The latest IPCC report on the Mitigation of Climate Change has a lot of meat in it for those engaged in human-centered design, behavioral change strategies, and...

Experientia seeking a senior business development manager
From Putting People First

Experientia seeking a senior business development manager

Experientia is looking for a Senior Business Development Manager with specific experience in either healthcare, energy, consumer goods, and/or the mobility industry...

Experientia seeking a senior service designer
From Putting People First

Experientia seeking a senior service designer

Experientia is looking for an outstanding Senior Service Designer with specific experience in either healthcare, energy, circular economy and/or the mobility industry...

[Book] Human-Centered AI
From Putting People First

[Book] Human-Centered AI

In Human-Centered AI, Professor Ben Shneiderman offers an optimistic realist's guide to how artificial intelligence can be used to augment and enhance humans' lives...

The data revolution in social science needs qualitative research
From Putting People First

The data revolution in social science needs qualitative research

Although large-scale data are increasingly used to study human behaviour, researchers now recognize their limits for producing sound social science. Qualitative...

Haptics devices cannot replicate physical contact
From Putting People First

Haptics devices cannot replicate physical contact

Haptics devices probably won’t ever live up to their promise to replicate physical contact, writes David Parisi (associate professor, College of Charleston) in...

[Book] Prototype Nation
From Putting People First

[Book] Prototype Nation

A vivid look at China’s shifting place in the global political economy of technology production by ethnographer Silvia M. Lindtner

One year on, has the French repair index kept its promises?
From Putting People First

One year on, has the French repair index kept its promises?

Analysis of the outcomes of the French repairability index, how it affects repairers and how consumers feel about it.

Do we need to change our behaviour to reach net zero by 2050?
From Putting People First

Do we need to change our behaviour to reach net zero by 2050?

Behavioural changes which affect the way people use energy are an important part of the toolkit for reaching net zero emissions by 2050.

[Report] Applying Behavioural Science to Advance Environmental Sustainability
From Putting People First

[Report] Applying Behavioural Science to Advance Environmental Sustainability

Applying behavioural science to environmental challenges can help policymakers better target and redirect unsustainable behaviours. This report draws on published...

[Report] Consumers and the Climate Crisis: The Key to Unlocking Behavioral Change
From Putting People First

[Report] Consumers and the Climate Crisis: The Key to Unlocking Behavioral Change

For the world to reach net zero, consumers everywhere will have to make fundamental changes to how they travel, heat, cool and power their homes, the food they...

[Report] Changing our Ways? Behaviour Change and the Climate Crisis
From Putting People First

[Report] Changing our Ways? Behaviour Change and the Climate Crisis

This report of the Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Sustainable Behaviour Change draws on research syntheses about the potential contributions of...

Mind the gaps: how experience data can help fight climate change
From Putting People First

Mind the gaps: how experience data can help fight climate change

A study by the World Economic Forum, Qualtrics and SAP suggests we are far from reaching a consensus about who is responsible for taking action on climate change...

[Book] Modern Socio-Technical Perspectives on Privacy
From Putting People First

[Book] Modern Socio-Technical Perspectives on Privacy

Provides a foundational understanding of technical and social aspects related to online privacy Covers modern application areas as well as underexplored issues...

[Book] Experiments of the Mind
From Putting People First

[Book] Experiments of the Mind

An inside view of the experimental practices of cognitive psychology—and their influence on the addictive nature of social media
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