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For all the hype around the Internet of Things, most people are still content to control their homes manually. A recent Gartner survey found that they don’t mind getting up to adjust the temperature or turn off the lights, and
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Continue readingBook in Brief: Orchestrating Experiences
Editors’ note: This “Book in Brief” feature here on Boxes and Arrows is from Orchestrating Experiences: Collaborative Design for Complexity by Chris Risdon and Patrick Quattlebaum. We’ll publish an excerpt, up to 500 words, of your book. The catch is that we’ll only publicize
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