Industry is working at cars that will talk more and more to their drivers and some researchers are even working at car interfaces that automatically adapt to the specific user who is driving. I’ve asked...
Facebook e’ decisamente un sito molto popolare, ma cosa sappiamo di come viene usato quel social network? Adam Joinson dell’Università di Bath si è concentrato sul capire cosa fanno gli utenti con...
Facebook is definitely a popular site, but what do we know about how people use it? Adam N. Joinson (University of Bath) is studying Facebook users to learn more about it and will present some of the findings...
Who’s in the list of your friends on social networking sites? True friends? People who you don’t know much? Total strangers? Should those sites offer a richer way of describing your relationship with...
Imagine you have to move to a distant city. What would happen to the relationships you have with your friends? Which telecommunication tools would you use to try to maintain friendship? A research collaboration...
What does it make an on-line user profile attractive to members of the opposite sex? Andrew T. Fiore and his colleagues at the University of California at Berkeley have selected 50 user profiles on the...
Una credenza diffusa è che la tecnologia abbia il potenziale di migliorare la vita di tutti: dal posto di lavoro al divertimento, dalla salute alla casa. Ma qual’è il ruolo della tecnologia per chi...
Il sito principale del Sole 24 Ore ha pubblicato su Web gli articoli che ho scritto per il numero di Nova del 3 Aprile 2008. A questo link trovate l’introduzione (apparsa nella Pagina 1 dell’inserto...
We tend to believe that technology is improving everybody’s life, at the workplace as well as at home. But what about those who have neither a job nor a home? Christopher A. Le Dantec, together with...
L’industria elettronica ha una responsabilità crescente nella produzione di rifiuti tossici e difficili da smaltire. Non solo c’è poca attenzione verso la pericolosità dei materiali impiegati e...
The electronic industry has an increasing responsibility in the production of toxical components and e-waste. Careless strategies are leading to irresponsible designs such as the growing number of products...