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Speculative bubble tendencies in time series of Bitcoin market prices
Cuadernos de Economía, 2022 This article explores the concepts of cryptocurrencies and speculative bubbles, as Bitcoin’s price behaviour shares characteristics with speculative bubbles that have occurred in recent years.
Michael Demmler +1 more
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Global Discourse, 2021 Digital food technologies carry promise for better food futures but they are often problematic in their impact on food cultures. While proponents suggest that food-tech products such as smart kitchenware or diet personalisation services can support efficient food practices, critics highlight various risks.
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Be provoking. Schooling critical and speculative designers
Interaction Design and Architecture(s), 2021 Designing the provocation is a powerful strategy to jump from denouncing to generating actions and behaviors of a critical and speculative nature in design students.
Natalia Pérez-Orrego +3 more
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Problematising upstream technology through speculative design: the case of quantified cats and dogs [PDF]
, 2015 There is growing interest in technology that quantifies aspects of our lives. This paper draws on critical practice and speculative design to explore, question and problematise the ultimate consequences of such technology using the quantification of ...
Feltwell, Tom +4 more
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“No powers, man!”: A student perspective on designing university smart building interactions [PDF]
, 2020 Smart buildings offer an opportunity for better performance and enhanced experience by contextualising services and interactions to the needs and practices of occupants.
Alavi Hamed S. +15 more
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Counterfactual and alternative histories as design practice
Temes de Disseny, 2023 The version of design that was shaped and perfected during the 20th Century played a huge role in the making of the modern (global northern) world. Whilst design’s potential as a contributor to the making of worlds is clear, its methods, metrics and ...
James Auger, Julian Hanna
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TMbarrier: speculative barriers using hardware transactional memory [PDF]
, 2018 Barrier is a very common synchronization method used in parallel programming. Barriers are used typically to enforce a partial thread execution order, since there may be dependences between code sections before and after the barrier.
Gutierrez-Carrasco, Eladio Damian +2 more
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Games as speculative design:allowing players to consider alternate presents and plausible futures [PDF]
, 2016 As games are inherently about exploring alternative worlds this paper proposes the utilisation of games as a medium for speculative design through which players can explore scenarios that represent plausible alternative presents and speculative futures ...
Burnett, Dan +2 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 The evolving field of reproductive technologies greatly alters our practices of conception and pregnancy. It is thus crucial to develop such innovations in a democratic and sustainable manner through public participation.
W. Willems +4 more
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Natural and artificial interaction. Symbiotic processes between science, art and design
Agathón, 2022 The contribution will focus on how the concept of ‘living’ in the contemporary vision of design, with regard to vegetation, influences design culture, a concept constantly faced with the environmental context through practices of imitation of the logic ...
Federica Dal Falco +2 more
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