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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)
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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Smart textiles
For the conference How Smart Are We?, organised by Design Plus in London, STBY produced two design documentaires and creative workshops on the themes Drift and Swim. The first theme explored how smart...
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Travel stories
STBY has recently completed a long-term research on the use of travel related e-services. The main question was how consumers choose between using online and offline channels. The results show that...
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Design Documentaries
Design documentaries are a new, visual way of bringing everyday life into design processes, as a source of inspiration. This method is used in the early stages of design processes, when designers want...
View ArticleIntelligent jewelry
Last week at the Create07 conference, both Michael Smyth and Peter Wright presented a project on intelligent jewelry. It was really interesting to hear how interaction designers and pervasive computing...
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Disappearing interaction
After the disappearing computer (integrated in objects such as cars, furniture and clothes), and the disappearing consumer (creative and empowered use of the integrated network of in/tangible service...
View ArticleDesign for innovation
Bill Moggridge, the writer of the book Designing Interactions, was in London last week for a series of talks.At the Innovation Forum he stressed that for innovation processes it is important to have...
View ArticlePick and Mix: consumers moving between online and offline channels
by Geke van Dijk. PhD thesis, completed in 2007, Computing Department, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. (PDF, 5 MB)
View ArticlePhD thesis Design Documentaries
by Bas Raijmakers. Completed in 2007 at the Royal College of Art, Design Interactions, London, UK. (PDF, 4,7 MB)
View ArticlePoster Design Documentaries
by Bas Raijmakers. He summarised and visualised his PhD thesis in this poster that was printed at the occasion of the graduation Show at the Royal College of Art in 2007. The image was modeled after a...
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