Class Notes for Tu, 29 Jan 2008
All, Notes from today’s lecture are available. You can find the notes using either of the two links below: Freemind Format (open in Freemind) XHTML Format Regards, -Bob rmolnar[at]indiana[dot]edu
Ethics in visual presentations
So I was reading through my google reader feeds, and came across this gem over at Functioning Form. The post came out of the recent conference VizThink which has this example. I think that this example is very compelling as both represent some kind of fact, or statistic (reminds me of Mark Twain’s quote…
Dealing with aesthetics
We all have a general conception about aesthetics and we discussed most of that in the class. Based on that I tried to have a discussion with my fellow photographer friends. In common terms, it is something that is appealing, an epitome of beauty, a piece of art, or more broadly something that gives us…
Sustainable Guitar Hero
While everyone loves Guitar Hero, it is reasonable to consider the environmental implications of all those cheesy plastic guitars. A company showed off an elegant solution at CES 2008: Guitar Hero Air Guitar Rocker. Let’s face it: it’s not the guitar that makes you a rock god(dess); it’s the slick moves and stylin’ hair. See…
Q & A About Expression Assignment
People have asked me some questions about the expression assignment, and I thought I would collect and answer them here. This is important, because if you don’t understand what these key concepts mean, you can’t do the assignment correctly. Make sure you have a clear idea of what is “an expression” and “an experience” before…
A speculation on personas & scenarios
In the wake of our discussion on Representation and Speculation approaches in HCI, I thought I would write a short post to pose a question. Granted that these categories aren’t exclusive, where do techniques such as personas and scenarios lie on this continuum? Personas are a common technique used in user-centered design and indeed do…
Class Notes for Th, 24 Jan 2008
All, Better late than never, right? I’ve posted the lecture notes from today’s discussion. You can find the notes using either of the two links below: Freemind Format (open in Freemind) XHTML Format Regards, -Bob rmolnar[at]indiana[dot]edu
Design: Nemesis
Most of people say that there is merely no dichotomy theory to divide an idea, or identification or explanation to explain about a certain phenomenon in an obvious way since there are the numerous things that we cannot explain. I am so tedious with this opinion since I was also telling to LB, and Sean…
Lame and Obvious Multimedia Art or Novel Ecommerce Prototype?
I have mixed feelings about posting this video, and WordPress won’t let me paste the object/embed code–not sure what’s up with that, so here’s a link instead: http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/ifc/2008/01/23/sundance_newfrontier/index.html It is supposedly a work of “multimedia art” (in the words of the usually hip Salon.com), shown at the usually hip Sundance, which shows how virtual sweatshop…
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Semiotic dynamics
I’m in an informal reading group with some of the gang from complex systems, cog sci, and linguistics. One of the papers we’re reading for today really illuminated – in an HCI/d way – the talk Jeff was giving yesterday about the shared collective space of intention, meaning, and understanding. Since I know Dewey and…
Interaction Culture 