Humanity: Computing's biggest problem
News Intel, for example, has hired anthropologists to travel the globe, exploring how computing differs in various cultures. Researchers are trying to get a grip on one of the big problems with computers: the human on the other end.
[July 17, 2003, 10:10]
Intel's anthropological army
News Like many large IT companies, Intel has tribes of anthropologists and social scientists on the books, and these people have considerable input on the way the company develops new products and platforms.
[August 26, 2005, 11:15]
Digital Library Design for Usability
White Papers Anthropologists have successfully used cultural models to understand the cultural constructs by which people view the world. During the last decade, software designers have made progress in developing usable systems for products such as word...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Would the real Intel please stand up?
Leader There is the Intel with teams of anthropologists learning everything they can about what people really need and really do, and the one which tells its customers what to buy. Virtualisation is the art of hiding the real beneath the apparent.
[January 14, 2008, 16:33]
PCs: More than one billion served
News Indeed, small will be big, according to Christine Riley, who heads up the People and Practices Research Group at Intel, a small organisation of social scientists, designers and anthropologists that studies how humans interact with machines.
[July 1, 2002, 9:08]
Emerging market centres from Intel on the way
News To this end, the company has retained a number of anthropologists and demographers to help it understand local usage patterns and demand. Intel will open up four design centres to tackle the some of the hurdles facing computer adoption in emerging...
[August 1, 2005, 9:15]
PC industry ridiculed by academics and researchers
News They said the computing industry has largely lost touch with humanity and needs to reconnect by importing anthropologists, sociologists and regular users into the design and engineering process. Computers are illogical machines in dire need of a...
[March 14, 2001, 12:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog America's finest, however, prefer to post porn and psalms of praise for pot smoking -- pick the bones out of that, anthropologists. Monday China crisis? What China crisis? Let's not worry about American spy planes, American arms sales, American...
[May 4, 2001, 16:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Pulsating with humanity of all sorts and ages, every demographic is represented except for that group known to professional anthropologists as "poor people". Monday 31/02/2005 To Regent Street by Underground carriage, there to keep an appointment...
[February 4, 2005, 16:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The company spends billions on technology R&D and more again on patenting the silliest things; it would get far better returns for much lower investments if it funded a few anthropologists to hang around its management structure for six months.
[August 12, 2005, 18:40]
People, not passwords, are the key to security
Leader Humanities experts are one group - anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, graphics designers, even dramatists - while the other is the user base itself. Students of the human condition will find little to surprise them in Gartner's latest...
[November 1, 2004, 11:44]
