Nine friends played Wii games today at my home including sport games and Mario party games. We have four handlers which means that we could have four people play at the same time. When we played those minigames, eight of us were really enjoy. Another one was very busy and working by using her laptop.…
While we were discussing our Dourish reading and the necessary and implicit philosophical assumptions that people make when they design tools, I re-remembered a quote by John Maeda that I’ve mentioned before. Maeda says that when we do design with tools, we live in other people’s dreams. The idea being that those tools were themselves…
After hearing that a bunch of my cool classmates have sent in position papers for CHI workshops, I decided that I too want to try to get a paper in to a workshop. Plus, I figured I could take advantage of Jeff’s class to help me pre-write this paper. After looking through the list of…
This is NOT a plug for SLIS… I mentioned it in class last week during our list discussion and so I’m posting the link. http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/about-social-informatics I’ve been reading some of Kling’s work and it definitely relates to some of the issues we’ve discussed in class, especially the role of society while designing technology. The definition…
I have tried to come up with something from our blog fodder this week. I use “something” instead of the truth, “nothing” , to avoid being beat by a hockey stick, although the “something” is a mess. Activity Theory is object-oriented. People work with a tool to achieve the goal in a social context. There…
Jeff– Is there anything we should do to prepare for the pre-writing exercise on Tuesday?
So… Dourish claims that “… if our technical practice is built on those foundations, then the arguments are deeply relevant, because they determine the limits of what can be done and the chances for success of our efforts to have people and computers work effectively together.” In other words, if HCI is rooted in a…
So I was watching MTV last night (I know… you can feel free to make fun of me the next time you see me) and I saw one of those text messaging commercials. I’ve looked on Youtube for a video of the commercial, with no luck of course. It went something like this: Text Game…
So back to the topic of games, I’ve posted a few times on this… but games are important: we spend more money on online games than music. Gaming is the #1 online activity. HCI studies technology with very different methodological and philosophical bent than Computer Science or it’s many sister sciences, that of phenomenology. This…
Interaction Culture 