Motivations for Monitoring
17 Oct 2010
Article on the MIT Technology Review on remote monitoring of mobile phones – recording data and phone use, battery life. Remote diagnostics is nothing new …
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Skullphone actually.
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Authentification on Demand
17 Sep 2010
Chinese market – where this retailer liberally applies hologram stickers to new products.
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In Field Connectivity
08 Sep 2010
It still surprises me that teams let this one slip: if you’re running a field study – remove a simple barrier to communication by buying …
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Cold Calling: Afghan Romance 101
29 Aug 2010
Our local guides here schooled us on Afghan romance 101 – how boys/men and girls/women find ways to bridge the significant gulf between the sexes …
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From ‘Is this You’ to ‘This Is Me’
17 Aug 2010
The security protocols for working in Afghanistan dictate that the driver doesn’t hold up the name of the person they are picking up, but …
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Thanks to everyone who squeezed into the Design Mind speaker series event on Design Research – we expected 200 and over 400 turned up, and …
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5 Billion Customers Can’t be Wrong
09 Jul 2010
(Or can it? A % of those customers will have 2nd and 3rd subscriptions)
An ITU press release from early 2010 with the estimate of 5 …
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In a world of personal music devices the taxi driver with the audio-in cable is king. Careening around Almaty listening to the driver’s head banging …
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The ease and speed with which we effectively move to having multiple device access, and increasingly multiple screens. Implications for new forms of task-flow, interaction; …
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