links for 2010-06-30
Silver surfers increase by one million over the last year | CARDI : Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (tags: ageing technology internet raceonline)
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links for 2010-06-21
Reframing health to embrace design of our own well-being Nice piece from latest Interactions magazine (tags: health2.0 healthcare design Foucault)
links for 2010-04-13
2004-August-25 – Bungalow Blitz at the Walter Phillips Gallery All over Ireland, one of the biggest bestsellers of 1971 was a DIY manual called Bungalow Bliss by Jack Fitzsimmons (“Six Plans and Six Specifications for only One Hundred Pounds”). Landing … Continue reading
links for 2010-04-06
Tony Dunne – Design for Debate – we make money not art "It's not about trying to predict the future and get into forecasting but simply about trying to move upstream and not waiting for science to become technology and … Continue reading
links for 2010-03-28
Design with Intent 11 ways to 'change' behaviour (tags: behaviour design Nudge)
links for 2010-03-27
Design with Intent 11 ways to 'change' behaviour (tags: behaviour design Nudge) Welcome UK Cabinet Office resource on service design (tags: services design UK)
links for 2010-02-04
Hey, all of a sudden older people are sexy. It must be election time again | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian It is assumed that over-65s live in some condition of infirmity, when the most recent … Continue reading
links for 2010-01-28
Free Publicity: Who do we help? – Anil Dash Anil Dash on the "slate of the union address" – good points, well made (tags: Politics USA Obama Apple) rc3.org – Is the iPad the harbinger of doom for personal computing? … Continue reading
links for 2010-01-26
The Business of Ageing Conference, The Business of Ageing – Turning Silver into Gold* Dublin conference on ageing as an innovation opportunity for ireland (tags: ageing conference events Ireland)
links for 2009-12-15
potlatch Markets, on the other hand, are computational devices for translating opinions into facts. It's not so much that they don't lie, as that they can't. In the words of George Stigler they "lay the cards face up on the … Continue reading
links for 2009-12-07
Books of the decade: Your best books of 2006 | Books | guardian.co.uk Books of the decade. Most spot on. Few wrong 'uns. Plenty to add to that growing people of unread books.For once a list that seemed well argued … Continue reading
links for 2009-12-05
Older people would benefit greatly from free telecare Stephen Burke of Counsel and Care advocates free telecare (tags: telecare ageing UK) "Bookmark this on Delicious" Buttons JRF report on older people's vision for long term care (tags: ageing longtermcare)
-ing: My DEFUSE presentation
Here's the presentation I gave last night at the DEFUSE event, part of Dublin Design Week. "-ing": new practice development View more documents from ideasbazaar. It's a short piece, because of the 20 slides x 15 seconds = 5 minute … Continue reading
links for 2009-10-12
FT.com / Lex / Consumer & Retail – Boomer profits Less obvious is how this demographic change – the number of over-60s will rise to about 30 per cent of developed countries’ population from 20 per cent now – will … Continue reading
links for 2009-09-24
Cabinet of Wonders: Social Sewing and Networked Objects The Availabot for older people, or those who like a bit of haberdashery (tags: internetofthings ageing social technology networks)
links for 2009-09-17
Peer Pressure and Other Pitches – WSJ.com Behavioural economics for the mass(es) marketer (tags: nudge behaviour IDEOtalk economics) WORKSNUG.COM Need iPhone (tags: mobile productivity wifi iphone office augmentedreality)
links for 2009-09-10
Media Literacy Audit: Report on media literacy amongst older people | Ofcom Ofcom report from 2006 (tags: ageing technology TSA09) Connecting older people to the world | Technology | The Guardian There are now more pensioners than children under 16. … Continue reading
links for 2009-08-27
How does a German senior center stop alzheimer’s patients from wandering off? « Nudge blog It builds a phony bus stop outside its entrance. (tags: nudge behaviour ageing Alzheimer's design) Pitchfork: Articles: The Social History of the MP3 History of … Continue reading
links for 2009-08-25
FT.com / In depth – The A to Z of ageing Various anecdata on ageing (tags: ageing statistics)