Half of semester I feel the collision of phenomenology and my mind. When I tried to collect all the reading material, I found a strange phenomena that the papers I printed out have lot of underlined and notes. And they are still in my mind. But those of papers I read on computer screen…
I’ve pre-written many papers before. But I can’t ever remember partaking in serious pre-writing when 5 points weren’t rewarded for it. I can remember times in high school when I would create the outline I was supposed to have made for my paper well after having finished the paper to merely fulfill my obligations as…
I was struggling on selecting a theory from the phenomenology system and a concrete HCI phenomena from my personal interests. Because I always found they’re hard to be connected. One of my interest is the online Anime book watching, but what to apply there? Ready-to-hand? Ethnomethodology? Activity theory? I found none of them fits to…
Read more pre-writing experience: “Instant Messenger and Activity Theory”
We experience being-in-the-digital-world as distinct from being-in-the-physical-world. For example, we experience the existence of a pdf text as different from a physical text, even when the two text contain the exact same words. Not all digital things have such a close physical analogue as in the digital text/physical text example. For example websites, IDEs, word…
So like Tyler, I’m cheating, and using my prewriting assignment for the assignment that I have to turn in for Erik’s class next week. So the concrete phenomena I have is raising Ezra & Micah. Of course I’m not alone in this, I expect that my wife is part of the design team, and doesn’t…
Clarion Health Partners in Indianapolis uses software for the management of patient records. Nurses and physicians interact with software extensively to get their jobs done. The integration of technology for hospitals and patient care is continuing to be used in more integral ways with the hope that it will assist in alleviating the high costs…
By the way, my pre-writing experience is awful. I feel I am in a theoretic fog: Ambiguous, Confused, Unclear, Obscure, Vague, Debiuos, Enigmatic, Indefinite, Inconclusive, Indeterminate fog. Please, Rescue me from this fog!
An interesting outcome of this whole prewriting exercise is that I’ve begun to make better use of diagrams as tools to understand readings and organize my thoughts. This happened somewhat by accident. I started out just trying to make some rough concept maps as an initial prewriting exercise. Soon the sketches consumed my attention, and…
O MY GOD, I just realized that I didn’t finish my pre-writing until now. However, I did some reflection-on-action work. After Tuesday’s class I decided to do the most time-consuming work: re-read those readings and gather all my notes and those underlined sentences together! It turns out that it is a huge project! Usually I…
I was thinking of the style of interface/interactions when I saw two devices at http://www.monsterdesign.co.kr/ I just compare the two devices in conceptual view of interface/interaction design; innovative or progressive, or futuristic or current suggestion. The first device is a conceptual MP3 player, Iriver. The second one is 5mega HSDPA phone K850i, Sony Erricson.…
Interaction Culture 