This is a blog by Nicolas Nova. I undertake user/field research at LIFTlab: I study people's practices as well as usage of technologies and turn them into insights, ideas, prototypes or recommendations to inform design and foresight.

This blog is a selection of the material that I collect, especially in fields such as mobility, urban environments, digital entertainment and new interfaces. I am also part of the near future laboratory and teach user researchin different design schools.

Email contact is: nicolas [at] liftlab [dot] com

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• "Game Controller Evolution", London, UK, September 24: Playful 2010
• Pecha-Kucha, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 25, 2010
• Urban innovation day, Lyon, France, October 15, 2010
• Keynote talk at Swiss Design Network Junior conference, Basel, Switzerland, October 28, 2010
• Workshop with Julian Bleecker at Swiss Design Network conference, Basel, Switzerland, October 29, 2010

• "Disrupted by a new script: exploring the meaning of gestural video game interfaces", Trento, Italy: EASST2010 conference, September 3, 2010
• Solar Progeria or the renaissance of urban fictions, Cinémathèque Suisse Lausanne, June 12, 2010
• From Teaspoons to Jetpacks: designing speculative futures by observing ordinary things and practices, RCA London, March 29, 2010
• Design and Designed Failures: From Observing Failurs To Provoking Them, ixda interaction10, Savannah, USA, February 5, 2010
• Ville, informatique pervasive et nouveaux paysages numériques, Séminaire EHESS, Paris, Jan 15th, 2009
• From instrumentation to social technologies in the city, Microsoft Social Computing Symposium, Jan 12, 2010, NYC.