Yesterday a friend sent me this link, and today Erik posted it to the HCI listserve as an example “worth reflection and critique”: http://www.infinityart.ro/ I think this site is a great artifact to which we can apply the critical approaches we have been learning in class. Using a phenomenological lens, my first thought is that…
I got a question from today’s lecture, and tried to answer them by myself, however, I don’t know if my understanding is correct or not, and hope someone, for example Jeff could help ^_^ about “Connotation”: If connotation associates with emotional things and is “subjective”, what is the relationship between connotation and “horizons” in phenomenology?…
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Talk and QA with Jeremi Karnell, President of One to One Interactive. Convergence between the research challenges of interactive media and HCI. Multi-modal approach to remove cognitive and subjective biases in research. Semiotics and Structuralism Structuralism identifies the elements of meanings and how they are juxtaposed and organized together. Structures are common patterns or orderings…
I guess the most educational part for me in this class is the phenomenological perspective. I have to confess that I was not a very understanding person before. I often got caught in arguments with other people. When other people didn’t think the same way as I thought, my instinct was to take his view…
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These days, one of the important issues among my realizations is that it is so hard to design a certain solution for user without having to understand their contextual stories. (I did not realize the fact when I was conducting user study in participatory observation method two years ago. I suddenly realize this fact now)…
A friend of mine recently entered into the following conversation with another individual. The results of which I think are interesting and worthy of at least a brief analysis. I have taken the liberty of anonymizing everything to make sure nobody gets hurt (namely, me). The friend in question sent an inquisitive message about an…
Last night we went to mad scientist ball party as last year. It is an event held by psychology and informatics school annually before Halloween. Faculty and student come together to have fun together. Last year I have been here and I dress my Nowitzki’s jersey and to be a basketball star. This year for…
While thinking about the strengths and weaknesses of the phenomenological, hermeneutic, and structuralists approaches (which I never got too far with), I was thinking about “What would be an example of structuralist design methodology?” Today I found this pretty cool article (link via putting people first) that mapped the different use-centered design research approaches. Not…
I was lucky enough to go to ASIST this past week and went to many interesting discussions. One that stuck out and has ties to our recent lecture involved ‘genre’ in search. The panelists discussed the use of genre in search and whether or not it was valuable. There were many comments and much disagreement.…
I work full-time in the office of international services and part of my responsibility includes assisting in technical aspects of international orientation. This past international orientation, we invited admitted international students to a facebook group as a medium to communicate prior to arrival to the United States. Our intent was for facebook to be a place where the students can…
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