Son of “Realism in HCI”
Dave’s Realism in HCI post reminded me of an experiment that I saw when I visited Bill Buxton’s Alias research lab a few years ago. Buxton has worked for years with the use of computers to sketch and visualize things in 3D, but he shares the concerns that Dave, et al, voice in that earlier…
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Lecture Liveblog: 10-18-07
Butter is not concrete. This butter is concrete. Give me something concrete and “that’s when I can get all phenomenological on your ass.” -Jeff
Bill Buxton interview
You may have already seen this, but the summary of the interview is nice… note the emphasis on sketching. This of course reiterates what we read by Buxton earlier. (the full audio interview is also available via link on page) http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/05/31/a-conversation-with-bill-buxton-about-design-thinking/
Postphenomenology?
For Erik’s class we read a chapter from Peter-Paul Verbeek’s What Things Do, which presents some pretty interesting ideas relating Heideggerian concepts like “present to hand” to the sustainability of products. He also claims to draw on the perspective of postphenomenology. Since Wikipedia was no help, I’m wondering if Jeff or someone else can explain…
Realism in HCI
At the beginning of the semester, Gillan Smith’s article set up the challenge to develop an “independent language of interaction” that fully exploits the medium of computers — similar to how the early techniques of cinema eventually stabilized into a coherent visual language. While its contentious that such a singular language can be created for…
Link to Wired article Jeff mentioned
http://groups.google.com/group/hcigames/topics There is a link to that article from this page. Anyone interested may also join the group. (Add tag:usability)
Examples on the reciprocal relationship between activities and tools
“Activities shape the requirements of particular tools, and the application of the tools begins to reshape dimensions of activity.” iPod Touch When planning on the next generation of ipod, Apple wanted a better view for photos and videos, and a more intuitive way of interaction. As a result, they integrated the multi-touch function and the…
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Phenomenology, AT, UX, and Post-Modernism
Before reading my blogging, I want to let you know briefly about my assumption. I guess the assumption is somewhat ridiculous. Turning back Macro/Micro point of views or Composing/Decomposing issues of human beings, I wanted to think about the views and the issues in Post-modernism and ecological system. I don’t read the book, ‘The Ecological Approach…
Interaction Culture 