Why consumers are willing to share personal information on smartphones
New research from Wharton marketing professors Shiri Melumad and Robert Meyer finds that people are more willing to share deeper and more personal information when communicating on a smartphone...
View Article[Book] All data are local
All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven SocietyBy Yanni Alexander LoukissasMIT PressApril 2019, 272 pages How to analyze data settings rather than data sets, acknowledging the...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank Research on life after Covid-19
Konzept is a research magazine published at regular intervals that addresses the fundamental issues driving the world of economics and finance: it provides a platform for Deutsche Bank analysts to...
View ArticleThe Big Home Reboot: IKEA’s Life at Home Report 2020
IKEA believes home is the most important place in the world. That’s why for the last seven years thy have studied how thousands of people around the world live at home in their Life at Home reports....
View ArticleSocial science perspectives on artificial intelligence. A special issue.
Unpacking the Algorithm: Social Science Perspectives on AISpecial issue of the Journal of Digital Social ResearchVol. 2 : No. 3 : November 2020This special issue collects six articles tackling...
View ArticleSwiss Re Institute on how COVID-19 is transforming consumer behaviour
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing how we work, travel, communicate, shop and more, but which new habits are likely to stick permanently? Mahesh H Puttaiah, Aakash Kiran Raverkar and Evangelos...
View ArticleThe human factor — why data is not enough to understand the world
Gillian Tett, chair of the FT editorial board and editor-at-large, US, writes in the Financial Times how anthropology balances the insights of algorithms and AI. These days Google’s staff is trying to...
View ArticleAI still sucks at moderating hate speech
For all of the recent advances in language AI technology, it still struggles with one of the most basic applications, writes Karen Hao in MIT Technology Review (and meanwhile also reported by Luigi...
View ArticleThe role of UX: 2020 benchmark study report and analysis
UXmatters and the UX research consultancy User Fountain recently teamed up to survey UX professionals around the world on the role of User Experience within their organization. The Role of UX: 2020...
View ArticleCOVID-19’s psychological burden is associated with antisystemic attitudes and...
The Psychological Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Associated With Antisystemic Attitudes and Political ViolenceHenrikas Bartusevi?ius (Peace Research Institute, Oslo), Alexander Bor (Aarhus...
View ArticlePublic deliberation on policies has many advantages
Deliberative democracy is a way of including citizens in policy debates. Methods include citizen juries, deliberative polling and consensus conferences. These are often termed “mini-publics”. Research...
View ArticleA Balanced Place: IKEA’s Life at Home Report 2021
Global research released by IKEA Retail (Ingka Group) reveals the vital role that home has played in meeting people’s mental wellbeing needs during the pandemic. The 2021 IKEA Life at Home Report...
View Article[Book] Modern Socio-Technical Perspectives on Privacy
Modern Socio-Technical Perspectives on PrivacyEdited by Bart P. Knijnenburg, Xinru Page, Pamela Wisniewski, Heather Richter Lipford, Nicholas Proferes and Jennifer RomanoSpringer, March 2022, 462...
View ArticleGlobal Happiness and Well-being Policy Report
The 2022 Global Happiness Council Policy Report, which has been long delayed by the pandemic, uses a well-being lens to assess COVID-19 effects and policies, with the goal of sharing some lessons for...
View ArticleOver-reliance on English hinders cognitive science
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive scienceDamián E. Blasi, Joseph Henrich, Evangelia Adamou, David Kemmerer and Asifa Majid @Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 26, Issue 12, p....
View Article50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances
“The challenge is that a consumer doesn’t see the true value that manufacturers see in terms of how that data can help them in the long run. So they don’t really care for spending time to just connect...
View ArticleEricsson on AI ethics
AI – ethics inside? Challenges and opportunities for the futureEricsson IndustryLab, 2021Download the report This report by the IndustryLab of Ericsson, the Swedish multinational, aims to introduce...
View ArticleNew European Commission study on how digital advertising impacts privacy,...
Study on the impact of recent developments in digital advertising on privacy, publishers and advertisersEuropean Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and...
View ArticleGPT detectors biased against non-native English writers
A recently published, peer-reviewed paper shows researchers (all from Stanford University’s Department of Computer Science and Department of Electrical Engineering) found that programs built to detect...
View Article[Report] How green is household behaviour?
How Green is Household Behaviour?Sustainable Choices in a Time of Interlocking CrisesOECD Studies on Environmental Policy and Household BehaviourJune 2023(Read for free online. Also available for...
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