I didn’t want to make the comment in class, plus the video is way funnier. Eddie Izzard who you might know from Ocean’s 12 and 13 and the Riches, is also a comedian and has a great stand up routine (Dress to Kill) from a few years ago. Here are his thoughts on guns! (Guns…
I know some of the people (and by some I mean the VAST majority) in the class are second years and therefore have had some access to CHI in the past. I had dinner at Scotties with a few people last night and we talked a bit about what all went on last year and…
We are always already on philosophical foundations and deploying those philosophical systems in our systems and interactions. Philosophical foundations determine the limits of what can be done. Hierarchical menu structures assumes that the world is hierarchically structured and relationships can be reduced to a static mapping. Produces interfaces like Windows Explorer. Breakdowns like “was this…
J.J Gibson. I guess I am loving him. I have interests in ecologial issues as systematic approach in designing. I am still so confused that I could not define it in my mine yet. So, I want to study about him and his research further. Prof. Jeff. Could you give me the information more about his ecological theory of perception. And…
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I am posting a link to my blog in the hopes of getting your thoughts on my recent post on the topic mentioned in the title. Feel free to comment on it here or there.
Disclaimer, this was sitting in my unpublished drafts for at least a week or more. Sorry about that. OK so my title is alarmist and/or tabloidish, but honestly after listening to Jeff’s lectures this week, I am fairly convinced by his syllogistic logic. The tools used to create “amateur” media (and mainstream media too, but…
Driveway Hockey begins this Saturday! Search for the Facebook group “Driveway Hockey” for details. [Update]: Minor edits made. Also, some HTML errors were fixed *cough* –JB Phenomenology and structuralism are approaches to understanding something, they are not embedded in an object. A film is not inherently phenomenological, but it can be interpreted phenomenologically. User centered…
In the last class discussion, I broached about mise-en-scène for film theory. I had taken a film theory and history class when I was a freshman. Although I forgot almost about that lecture now, when I met the question 4, I came across a term, mise-en-scène. I think HCI Designers should have their mise-en-scène for…
In this situation of throwing-ness how aware is this person of the hammer (or the nail)? http://justvidclips.com/view/51/hammer-guy-very-cool-juggling-video-/
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