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Being Here
On 11 April Caroline Nevejan successfully defended her PhD dissertation at the University of Amsterdam. She is a good friend of ours and we are really proud of her. The title of her dissertation is...
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Book Launch
 On 25 April the book Uncommon Ground: Creative Encounters between Sectors and Disciplines will be launched in Cambridge during the Enter_Unknown Territories festival. The following day (Thursday 26...
View ArticlePick n Mix: Consumers combining electronic and conventional service channels
by Geke van Dijk, Shailey Minocha and Angus Laing. Published in a special issue of the journal Interacting With Computers, Volume 19, Issue 1, Elsevier, 2006. (PDF, 540 KB) No related posts.
View ArticleMorals, Ethics, Meaning and Quality
A few talks I attended in recent weeks have  helped me in thinking about issues I had been struggling with. The first talk was by Anne Galloway, who gave an excellent key note speech at the...
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Enter_Unkown Territories
We just visited the  festival and conference Enter_Unknown Territories for new technology art that took place from 25 to 29 April 2007 in Cambridge. Various artists and media activists/inventors...
View ArticleSoapboxes in cyberspace
On 15 May the third session of the Innovation Forum, organised by Nico MacDonald, was hosted in th Guardian Newsroom in London. The topic for the evening was ‘Soapboxes in cyberspace’. The...
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Presentations in Amsterdam and Eindhoven
 On the first of June we will give presentations about our PhD research projects and STBY in Amsterdam at Nemo. Talks start at 6pm, but come early and have drinks on the wonderful roof of NEMO,...
View ArticleRich viz – Design Documentaries
by Bas Raijmakers. Paper on design documentaries, published in ‘Rich Viz! Inspiring design teams with rich vizualizations’, edited by Pieter Jan Stappers et al., StudioLab Press, Delft University of...
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Charles Leadbeater at Culture 2.0
 The key note speech by Charles Leadbeater during the Culture 2.0 conference in Amsterdam (30 May 2007) as more inspiring than I had expected from reading his book We Think. I may have misunderstood...
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Bas shows at The Great Exhibition in London
 The results of my PhD project Design Documentaries will be exhibited at the summer show of the Royal College of Art, The Great Exhibition 2007. The show runs from 15-28 June, 10am-6pm, admission...
View ArticleDesign Research for Service Innovation
Our creative research projects connect organisations with the lives and experiences of their customers. This helps our clients to innovate their service offering, making it more valuable for both their...
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The paradox of choice
This book by Barry Schwarz was the topic of discussion for the Innovation Reading Circle on 8 October at the Channel 4 offices in London. The subtitle of the book is ‘Why less is more – How the culture...
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Dutch Design Week
Last week we visited the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven and were quite impressed with what we saw. There were many different exhibitions displaying high quality design. Far too much to see within one...
View ArticleDesign by Fire
Design by fireOn 13 October we gave a talk at the one-day seminar Design by Fire in Utrecht, organised by HuH (Haring institute of Happiness) and CHI Nederland. One of the presentations that preceded...
View ArticlePassionate for People
by Geke van Dijk and Bas Raijmakers. Presented at the Design by Fire conference on 23 October 2007 in Utrecht, NL. (8.4 Mb, excluding video fragments)…
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Design Of The Times
While we were in Newcastle for the Intersections conference, we also visited the design exhibitions that were organized around the town.  Many of the exhibitions reflected on sustainability and showed...
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Payments by mobile and rfid
While in Japan, we obviously kept an eye open for machines that dealt with payments by either mobiles or rfid tags. These lockers in the Tokyo underground can be paid for by using your public transport...
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Hardcopy hyperlinks
¬†What amazed me most when we were touring Japan, were the hardcopy hyperlinks we gradually learned to spot everywhere around us. At first I didn’t notice them, because there were already so many...
View ArticleSpunk//STBY
We have initiated a research joint venture with Spunk. This group of Dutch young, dynamic and highly opinionated people (16-19 years old) is never afraid to tackle any subject head on from their own...
View ArticleConsumer-centered innovation
I just came across this quote in an article in Business Week. It pretty much sums op why the social research we do is so timely and useful to our clients. “The customer replaces the direct competitor...
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