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Lecture Liveblog: 10-25-07
Phenomenology focus on sender’s intention, needs, wants and mechanisms by which they are able to express those in language. Diction – choice of words to express a meaning. Code (convention = mapping) – unspoken mechanism by which an expression is made sensible to a linguistic community. Genre – set of characteristics that define a type…
(Don’t) Read This Immediately
Today, UITS sent out a mass warning that the Adobe Acrobat reader had been compromised and advised that you not open any PDF files that you weren’t expecting. They then detailed the threat–you guessed it!–in a PDF attachment. Kudos to Tyler Pace for spotting this.
All Games Are Serious!
Today a classmate of mine, Aaron Houssian, presented his research plan for a serious game framework. His well-done presentation and this interesting discussion prompted me to think about serious games of all varieties. According to Wikipedia, a serious game is a software application developed with game technology and game design principles for a primary purpose…
Interesting Commentary On Smart Homes / Design / Technology / Humanity
Here is a presentation I found last year when I was Marty’s RA, looking for new material for his course. – http://web.archive.org/web/20040407205056/www.richgold.org/SMART/HTML/slide2.html This guy, Rich Gold, was a researcher at PARC before he passed away. Pretty cool stuff, my favorites are: How smart does the bed in your house have to be before you are…
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Lecture Liveblog: 10-23-07
Prewriting Discussion Talk about it, blog about it, ask questions, seek help, etc ..! Structuralism and Semiotics Rooted in linguistics, treats our problems with a linguistic metaphor. Modern linguistics is focused on describing language rather than prescribing (proper grammar, rules of writing, etc). Describe how a linguistic community uses language. model …………. set of user…
Identity as Advertising
Without getting into the deeper philosophical concept of identity as performance or sign, i find the recent news of MySpace founder Tom Andersen’s alleged age-shifting mildly amusing. “Tom Anderson, the co-founder of MySpace and the first friend to anyone who creates a MySpace profile, isn’t really 32 like it says on his MySpace profile. His…
“Library” vs. “Language” of Interactions
One thing you will find in abundance are libraries of interactions, often called widgets. Richie Hazlewood posted this link to the HCI distribution list earlier today, but it’s not the only one. The “components” that ship with Flash are another set, and information architect folks (e.g., Garrett) likewise have a standardized collection of interaction diagrams.…
Chaotic my pre-writing…
I finished my pre-writing in chaos… Actually, I have looked for new topic for pre-writing that is related to so many articles and theories in class. I realized that a new and novel one didn’t come up with my mind.. I drew out a topic that I have been thinking about for some time from…
Interaction Culture 