Hi folks, I think it would be fantastic to make the final papers available to each other. Not sure how we’d do it (i think i will be submitting mine to a conference later on, so i won’t be posting it on the web), but please add a comment here if you would assent to…
I mentioned this blog in class, where people are questioning whether/how innovation can be managed: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5821.html
Sorry to purely link to this, but i think it’s worthwhile for this group: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/weekinreview/02wright.html
Affinova.com is a company which has explicitly adopted an evolutionary approach to product design. Essentially, products are broken down into genetic components which are then evolved by a group of participants.
from: http://www.strategy-business.com/li/leadingideas/li00051 What companies need, therefore, is a new approach to demand creation that actually enables — make that forces — a company to be what it says it is. To borrow the phrase architect Jon Jerde made famous, that discipline is placemaking. Places are what provide the primary means for companies to demonstrate exactly…
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
So i’m reading a paper today by Chris Langton on the subject of Artificial Life (available online at http://www.aec.at/en/archiv_files/19931/E1993_025.pdf), in which he points out the fundamental differences between approaches to studying linear and non-linear systems. I would say that in researching Interaction Culture, we must more fully understand ourselves to be dealing with non-linear systems,…
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Without getting into the deeper philosophical concept of identity as performance or sign, i find the recent news of MySpace founder Tom Andersen’s alleged age-shifting mildly amusing. “Tom Anderson, the co-founder of MySpace and the first friend to anyone who creates a MySpace profile, isn’t really 32 like it says on his MySpace profile. His…
Like Kayce, i was taking in the cultural nuance this weekend that is MTV. Actually, i happened upon the MySpace/MTV Political thingamajig on Friday night, and was only able to stomach the first 10 minutes or so. John Edwards was the focus, but my dislike of the forum had little to do with the candidate.…
In a conversation on thursday with Marty and Tim about practical uses of phenomenology as descriptive and prescriptive in HCI, it occurred to me that i’d recently used a phenomenological lens without realizing it. One of the biggest challenges we’ve had over the past 6 months in designing BigTreeTop.com was understanding the sometimes aligned, sometimes…
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