Today we were lucky to host the Cologne-based designer Bianca Bender who gave us a short talk about her thesis she did at the KISD in 2009.
She designed a method to compare “unconscious needs” across different cultures. As an example case, she compared Brazil with Germany and generated some interesting findings, such as that the [...]
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Bianca Bender: »Statussymbole – Ein interkultureller Vergleich zwischen Deutschland und Brasilien«
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Reto Wettach at DMY Symposium
**Are Nerds the new Designers? **
Lectures and panel talks by international designers, researchers and cultural experts on the
intersections between advanced technologies, social media and design.
Reto Wettach is invited to talk about about his experience about technology and design.
(DMY 17h)
DMY – Flughafen Berlin Tempelhof, Platz der Luftbrücke 5, 12101 Berlin
Pre-Work-Talk: Geschichten aus Toledo.
Jonathan Cohen was travelling through Spain and will tell us some ” Geschichten aus Toledo”. While it’s still pretty cold in Berlin we look forward to hear some sunny stories!
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Pre-Work Talk: Frauen, Autos und Möbel.
Myriel Milicevic will give a short report on the “Innovation needs Diversity” conference in Berlin. The EAF (European Academy for Women in Politics and Economy) brought together a select group of researchers from industry and academic institutions to discuss their relevant findings, methods and developments.
André Knoerig reports about the highlights in automobile interface design he [...]
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Innovation needs Diversity!
EAF, our scientific cooperation partner we worked with during the G-project (gender-inspired technology) have invited us us to their Fachforum „Innovation needs Diversity!“ on April the 13th.
Reto Wettach, founder of IxDS, will give a talk in the Panel: Perspektivenvielfalt in Innovationsprozessen – Methoden und Instrumente.
The congress is not public, [...]
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Gender-Inspired-Technology at 4010
The Gender-Inspired-Technology research project will be on show at Telekom store 4010 in Berlin Mitte on Wednesday 24.
With an introduction by Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost and presentations by Nina Bessing and Stephanie Stein of EAF, also Julia Werner and Myriel Milicevic of IxDS will demonstrate most delightful findings, outcomes and surprises of this one year [...]
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Pre-Work Talk: Second German Tangible Computing Workshop // Essen
February 2009, Reto Wettach hosted the very first Inventor-Workshop for the tangible interfaces chapter of the German computer science association (GI-AK „Be-greifbare Interaktion in gemischten Realitäten“) at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.
On March 12-13, this year’s workshop was hosted by Albrecht Schmidt, Professor for Pervasive Computing and User Interface Engineering at the University Duisburg-Essen.
André [...]
Pre-Work Talk: Mobile World Congress and CeBit
Some important trade fairs took place recently, and of course we were there to explore the latest trends in technology.
Julia Leihener from Deutsche Telekom CreationCenter will take us on a trip to one of the most important venues of the mobile industry, the Mobile World Congress, that took place in Barcelona this year.
Reto and Johannes [...]
Pre-Work Talk: Sweden->Denmark->Italy
On Feb. 17th, Reto Wettach was invited to the „International Day” at the department for “konst, kultur och kommunikation” (K3) at the University of Malmoe/Sweden.
In his per-work session he will not only report about K3, but also about the work of Prof. Mette Ramsgard Thomsen from CITA, a center for research on IT and architecture.
Furthermore [...]
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Tactful Calling presented at Cebit 2010!
Tactful Calling is a novel application where callers can signal how urgent the call is. They can also indicate the amount of time they would need for the conversation while ringing up.
The Tactful Calling concept was developed within the Gender Inspired Technology research project by IxDS in cooperation with Deutschen Telekom Laboratories (Tlabs) supervised by [...]
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