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IxDA Student Competition: New Sponsor, Prizes & Deadline Reminder
This year as part of its completely redesigned annual global conference the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) is organizing a Student Competition searching for "Excellence in Interaction Design". Entries have already been streaming in from students representing programs from around the world. This week we have some big announcements and a really big reminder:
Internet in China: Timeline of the Pre-Installed Internet Filter required for All New Computers
China announced recently it would have all new computers in China pre-installed with a filter software, in a bid to "protect minors" from "unhealthy information" from the Internet. All computers produced or sold in China after July 1 would be installed with such software, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MITT). Check a round up of news about the Green Dam internet filter (and how conflicting the information is, depending if the source is Chinese or from abroad):
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Measuring “Design Innovation”
People love trying to measure and quantify things, because then the incomprehensible seems like it makes sense. Psychologists try to measure anger; dating websites try to boil ethereal qualities into 'match' numbers; and now Roberto Verganti and Claudio Dell'Era, researchers at Italy's Politecnico di Milano, are trying to measure 'design innovation.' So what did they find?
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Interaction Design Association (IxDA) 2010 Global Student Competition: THE FINALISTS