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		<title>Data-driven social interaction: The difference between analogue and digital part III</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Data-driven social experience is an entirely new manner of social interaction, one that obscures our emotional connections to people. Data makes social relationships visible, knowable, and countable in unprecedented ways. But it does not &#8212; and cannot &#8212; convey the emotional experience of social interaction. I&#8217;ve already discussed how digital technologies transform text and time. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designresearch.wordpress.com&blog=1255251&post=221&subd=designresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Difference Between Analogue And Digital Part II: Time</title>
		<link>http://designresearch.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/the-difference-between-analogue-and-digital-part-ii-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sladner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post, I examined how text is transformed when it is created and shared in digital form. In this post, I argue that time itself is transformed when it is represented in digital format. To illustrate, consider my experiment with my Filofax.
Yes, I said Filofax. I still have one. I haven&#8217;t filled it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designresearch.wordpress.com&blog=1255251&post=195&subd=designresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Designing for conversations: the critical importance of turn taking</title>
		<link>http://designresearch.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/designing-for-conversations-the-critical-importance-of-turn-taking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sladner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Hugh Dubberly and Paul Pangaro had a great post on Interactions magazine about designing for conversations. They propose to use how a conversation actually works to make interactions better. They rely heavily on Claude Shannon&#8217;s conversation model to help guide the conceptual model of interaction designs.
In Shannon’s model an information source selects a message [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designresearch.wordpress.com&blog=1255251&post=193&subd=designresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The difference between analogue and digital Part I: Text</title>
		<link>http://designresearch.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/the-difference-between-analogue-and-digital-part-i-text/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking a great deal lately about the transformative effects of digital phenomena (See an earlier post I wrote about music on cell phones).
Digital text differs greatly from analogue text. For example, see my text below.

I wanted to complete this post entirely in analogue format but I found entirely too labourious. So add [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designresearch.wordpress.com&blog=1255251&post=188&subd=designresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Improving participation rates: research recruitment best practices</title>
		<link>http://designresearch.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/improving-participation-rates-research-recruitment-best-practices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 17:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sladner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you out there who&#8217;ve tried it know: recruiting research participants is HARD. Here are a few insights from the research to help you with better recuitment.

Personalized contact with respondents, followed by pre-contact and aggressive follow-up phone calls *: Don&#8217;t count on a form letter, email or random tweet to do the job. Capitalize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designresearch.wordpress.com&blog=1255251&post=183&subd=designresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The evolution of qualitative sociology</title>
		<link>http://designresearch.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/the-evolution-of-qualitative-sociology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 17:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sladner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blog Economic Sociology has a great post on the &#8220;evolution&#8221; of qualitative sociology. They note, quite rightly, that the notion of &#8220;evolution&#8221; is implicit in much of social science, even if it has no bearing on the subject matter at hand. Many sociologists place quantitative research &#8220;on top&#8221; of the research &#8220;evolutionary ladder,&#8221; even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designresearch.wordpress.com&blog=1255251&post=176&subd=designresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open-access anthropology (and sociology): opening social research</title>
		<link>http://designresearch.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/open-access-anthropology-and-sociology-opening-social-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sladner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 1st is Open-Access Anthropology day. My contribution to this day:
It  is well past time to knock down the closed walls of the Ivory Tower.

Years ago, I worked on a project called The Public Knowledge Project. The principal investigator, Dr. John Willinsky, was actually a professor of literacy (and a distinguished one at that). John [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designresearch.wordpress.com&blog=1255251&post=169&subd=designresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do you bill by the hour? Do you &#8220;hide&#8221; your time?</title>
		<link>http://designresearch.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/do-you-bill-by-the-hour-do-you-hide-your-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I examine the tools and processes I use to do my own work. Like many agency workers, I often bill by the hour. Check out my research on this phenomenon:
This paper is about time regimes that are typical in interactive agencies, as well as law firms, some construction companies and some management consultancies: the so-called [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designresearch.wordpress.com&blog=1255251&post=166&subd=designresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Design thinking&#8217;s big problem</title>
		<link>http://designresearch.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/design-thinkings-big-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So-called &#8220;design thinking&#8221; is the new It-Girl of management theory. It purports to provide new ways for managers and companies to provide innovative, creative solutions to old problems. But design thinking alone will not solve these problems because a lack of creativity was never the issue.
The real issue is one of power.
Design is attractive to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designresearch.wordpress.com&blog=1255251&post=132&subd=designresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Context, time and technology</title>
		<link>http://designresearch.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/context-time-and-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime ago I wrote about designing for time use. I&#8217;d like to expand on that post and discuss how contextual cues frequently are erased by poor technology design.
Poorly designed technology is like Vegas: you don&#8217;t know what time of day it is because it treats every minute exactly the same. Humans don&#8217;t experience time this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=designresearch.wordpress.com&blog=1255251&post=128&subd=designresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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