All,I’m so happy to back among friends. Thanks to everyone for your kind words and messages in the past four weeks — it meant a lot. I’ve posted notes from today’s lecture. 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
Now the course will shift with emphasis on skills and prototyping in a variety of dimensions (e.g. paper, lo/hi-fi, experience..). We will still be connecting this portion of the course to our earlier discussions on theories (e.g. hermeneutics, phenomenology, etc..). Examples of Prototyping (that is, particular portions of these phenomena): processes sequences conceptual models/frameworks interfaces…
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 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…
Film Premise: VHS tapes in a local video store (operated by Jack Black & Mos Def) have all been magnetically zapped and the stars of the film must remake the movies (starring themselves) to satisfy their customers (I haven’t actually seen the movie, but this seems to be more or less the plot). This film…
Kengo Kuma, Tea room building as a critical act the construction of the building out of paper is a critique of human spaces and the effect of these spaces on human interaction and condition tea space is built according to the scale of a human (rather than scale of a car, etc..) a notion of…
This is the question (really, the paragraphs…) I emailed Jeff the other day. I’ve been thinking about this concept of The Real that we’ve been talking about lately, as well as the concept of “an experience” from earlier. It seems that part of the definition of The Real that we’ve been dealing with implies that…
Here’s an experience for you: sit back, close your eyes (but not really because then you won’t be able to read the post. Unless you ask that person sitting next to you to read the rest aloud for you), think of Italy-the delectable food, the canals of Venice, the Alps. Now you’re stretching your arms…
The critique assignment is due by midnight, February 29 (thank leap year!). make your writing concise and don’t go too much over the word limit iterate on your ideas throughout the process from constructing your outline to written drafts use the writing tutorial services , number = 812-855-6738 Critical reflection on the course: We began…
Here are the notes from today’s lectures: (Get better soon, Bob! You’re much better at this than I am! LOL) Announcement: One of the authors of the article we are to read for Thursday’s class is Phoebe Sengers, and she is: 1. coming to our class on Thursday , SO PLEASE DO YOUR READING FOR…
Interaction Culture 