March 6, 2008

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Lecture Live Blog 03.06.08

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Humans become accessories to the machine Four problems with rationalism in HCI idealizes computing, not seen in use users become accessories t othe machine (nbearers of mental models, informaiton processing devices) Computers in use is what we care about, rather than computers in the abstract. Rationalist approaches are not always good at getting at this.…

6 billion Others

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6 billion Others is a project by Yann-Arthus Bertrand ‘aiming to create a sensitive and human portrait of the planet’s inhabitants’, which I think is an avant-garde ethnographic project with aiming ‘the enlargement of the universe of human discourse’ (Geertz, 1973, The Interpretation of Cultures). The project team conducted 6,000 interviews in 65 countries and…