The Human-Technology Podcast
Episode Archive
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Five Steps for Sexy Technology
There are various processes, ways, and procedures to make technology sexy in order to achieve a positive user experience. In this podcast episode, I'm talking about user-centricity, context depe...
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Back from Vacation Special Edition: Perspectives, a Book, and Android Auto
After the short summer break of the human-technology podcast, there is a slightly shorter special edition today, with which I am returning from vacation. It's about my plans for the rest of the ...
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Our Decision: Do we make Technology Good or Bad?
It's always how we deal with it, how we handle the technology, what we do with it when, and where what makes it good or bad. Our actions, our decisions, and our thinking define the value of tech...
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Do you sometimes Feel like a Chef or an Architect? Six Parameters to Design an excellent HMI
Everyone has an opinion about HMI, everyone has emotions when he or she interacts with technology. That's a good thing, but it doesn't lead to solutions that satisfy larger user groups. I discus...
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Clash of Cultures: I has never been that difficult to Design an Automotive HMI
New players in the vehicle industry have chased the established players in front of them, especially in the HMI (Human Machine Interface). They are catching up now, giant screens, buttonless das...
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Protective Capsule, Means of Self-Expression, Communication Device: Roles of the Car Beyond Mobility
Basically, a car is a technology designed to move humans and goods from A to B. It fulfills this core task in most cases. However, and this is what makes the automobile as an artifact so excitin...
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The CarHMI 2022: five Statements and my Thinking on them
The CarHMI in Berlin is one of the major conferences on HMI in vehicles. The term HMI is used very broadly here, covering a wide range from HMI technologies to topics such as artificial intellig...
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The User: The Big Unknown and how to Learn more about it - Part 2
Part 2: Not everyone thinks like you. In all honesty, if you're a homo technicus, very few others think like you. Alan Cooper
Developers tend to expand their world, their thinking, and t...
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The User: The Big Unknown and how to Learn more about it - Part 1
Not everyone thinks like you. In all honesty, if you're a homo technicus, very few others think like you. Alan Cooper
Developers tend to expand their world, their thinking, their way of ...
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Our Brains: a Computer in our Head or a Miracle of the Evolution?
Our brain as we know it - and most of the time we use it - emerged in its basic character during the cognitive revolution 70,000 years ago. With this artifact adapted to the conditions of the St...