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How second screens are responding to (and shaping) user behaviours

Second screens are a growing part of the TV experience. But as televisions, remotes and consoles get 'smarter', how will new user behaviours affect the balance between screens?

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Home economics: how work is influencing family life

With the number of working parents on the rise, quality time with the family is becoming increasingly hard to organise. Parents are looking to a new source of inspiration for help: business.

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Crisis in Toy Town: learning to play with digital natives

What kind of toys appeal to the digital natives? Is there any space for old favourites? Volatile sales are causing iconic toy brands to reassess what exactly they sell, as toymakers face a shrinking market of kids that are growing up fast.

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'Wa' culture: how Japan's mobile operators are building smarter cities

Japan's futuristic technology often leads outsiders to assume that what happens there will catch on elsewhere. Before we get excited about tomorrow's world, what can we understand about the particular culture that's enabled such innovations to flourish?

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4G: mobile behaviour in the fast lane

It sounds simple: 4G brings faster connection speeds. But for everyone (and everything) from businesses to cars, acceleration has vast implications for mobile behaviour.

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Will digital save luxury?

Consumers of luxury goods are hungry for new experiences. Burberry's new flagship store combines digital with luxury – with their recent drop in share price, can this innovative approach rekindle demand?

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Jump around thinking: how publishers are rewiring for tablets

A bright future is emerging for publishing on tablets, but as early adoption shows, people see digital magazines more as a springboard to other content. In this fight for the fingertips, how will publishers keep readers engaged?

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The connected store: double-sided data

Armed with smartphones, a new generation of consumer is forcing marketers to adopt new tools. But are the benefits entirely one-sided? Or is a new, mutually rewarding relationship set to flourish as retailers in the US turn in-store technology back on them?

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Everywhere shopping: Click & Collect delivers

With informed shoppers demanding more choice and less hassle, new imperatives are emerging for retailers. Many are fragmenting into access points or experiential hubs in order to offer the best of online, offline and mobile.

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Empathetic technology: an interview with Ben Bashford

Ben Bashford is a designer whose work focuses on bringing empathy into our relationships with technology. He spoke to Canvas8 about how subtle design cues can be used to create systems which behave less like machines, and more like friends.

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Social media, technology and sport

Sport is seeing an increased desire from fans not just to watch, but also to participate and interact. This has been facilitated by digital technology, which gives fans access to their favourite teams in ways that were previously impossible.

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The implications of open data: an interview with Rufus Pollock

Dr Rufus Pollock is the founder of the non-profit Open Knowledge Foundation. He spoke to Canvas8 about the implications of making knowledge open for consumers and businesses, and the value of open data in developing a coherent CSR strategy.

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Self & System

After hovering in academic and design circles for decades, systems thinking is going mainstream. Recent technological developments are now giving us a tangible, global picture of how we as individuals fit into a broader ecosystem.

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Technology and trust in China: an interview with Tricia Wang

Tricia Wang has spent over ten years observing the impact of technology on human interaction and behaviour. She speaks to Canvas8 about how Chinese internet users disseminate information online, and issues around trust and sharing.

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Evolving home lives: an interview with Stefana Broadbent

Stefana Broadbent is an anthropologist who researches the impact of digital culture and new technologies on our behaviour. In the following interview she discusses the consequences of the evolution of home, work and family life.

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The darkweb and proactive privacy seekers

The seeming indifference of giants like Google and Facebook to user privacy concerns could be driving net users to an increasingly viable alternative; the dark net. Kate Mew documents the emergence of an Identity Game.

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Txt and the city

Today’s cities are pervaded by a variety of visible and invisible media technologies, and the boundaries between distinct urban domains like work, home and travel are becoming less clear. What are the implications of this for brands?

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What kids really want

What do brands have to do today in order to be part of young people’s lives tomorrow? After speaking to a global network of young people, the surprising, quite simple answer that emerged was to ‘be useful… every day’.

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Rethinking global media

With access to entertainment and information from around the world, audiences themselves are becoming as complex, fragmented, and difficult to pin down as their media tastes and practices.

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Mobile use in Japan

Many people in the West often struggle to understand Japanese consumers' relationships with technology. We look at mobile industry trends and consumer attitudes in the country that is sometimes called ‘the cradle of mobile civilisation’.