I am working on coming up with some ideas for the final paper, but am having trouble. I have three overall objectives for this paper: Use concepts we have learned in this class Write a publishable paper Write a paper that is useful to designers (as opposed to just academics) I have done some pre-writing…
Before I read the writings about the reflection of designer and design value from David and Yanning in this blog, I got the chance to read the paper, Reflective design, that Prof, Lim recommended me. I was glad that I could be addicted myself in rethinking of the kinds of problems with them. It was…
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This weekend I helped tar down loose shingles on my roof, fixed my gutters, repainted parts of my house including my garage door and roof-pipes, and installed a new window to meet city regulations. I ended up paying about $100 in labor for two guys to help me out for a several hours. Now just about everything we did…
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This will not be a large post, I am still working out the details…. But I have been thinking about the development of a language of HCI. I realize that it is important to have a controlled vocabulary that we can use to communicate HCI concepts and theories across disciplines. It is also important to…
The Lacey article “Film Language” presents the film analysis term mise en scene as “what can be seen in the picture” and consisting of production design (sets, props, and costumes), colour, lighting, actors’ performance, diegetic sound, and framing. I want address a few of these with examples. The first piece of mise en scene I…
For the final paper, we are supposed to have an idea by Tuesday’s (11/6) class. So do we need to submit a formal proposal or just send an email to Jeff to broadly talk about our idea? “……students explicate 1-3 digital interaction experiences using one or more of the strategies discussed during the semester” (This…
Since Jeremi Karnell was here on Tuesday, i thought you’d all get a kick out of the videos they’ve produced for the upcoming MITX awards ceremony: http://www.otoinsights.com/2007/11/if-your-agency-.html
David’s post “Balancing values and usability” reminds me of a book I read in this summer. It is written in Chinese, which is called “Creative Economy.” The book introduced ten famous designers in Asia, inclusive of their profiles, works and design philosophies. I would like to discuss more about the “values” of designers based on…
In class this week we talked about structuralism and syntagms and paradigms. We had examples sentences like : The cat ate the mouse. The mouse ate the cat. Cat the ate mouse the. The lady read the book. The noun read the book. The third example is nonsense because it breaks syntax, it’s not a…
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“The landscape as well as the city are both highly structured, and our existence is furnished with many different kinds of devices and technological systems. These are what instruct people in contemporary societies ‘how to live.’” -De Vries There is a wealth of design and social science literature that suggests that the artifacts we use…
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