Jeff – It seems as if the CHI format is really small text. I was writing my paper in word in size 11 normal formatting and when I switched it over to CHI format 6 pages of text I have so far became 4. Thus it seems as if we will actually have to write…
Here is an outline I have for Jeff’s final paper. I usually don’t work so far in advance, but I have a huge usability consulting project this week, Jeff’s paper, and a paper for Erik, so I figured I should try to get a bit ahead. It is a bit rough right now, but I…
I did a structural and phenomenological analysis of Facebook’s people tagging feature. Just today I was able to create a semi-coherent argument from the analysis. I am curious what you all think of this: My overall thesis for the paper is that the way that a social networking community (Facebook) is designed fundamentally changes the…
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I was wondering if anyone else made the connection between post structuralism and reflective design. I personally see alot of similarities and overlaps. I guess it makes sense, considering both have roots in critical theory. The playful transgression of existing rule systems (post structuralism) seems to be a great way for designers and users to…
Mingxian was recently talking about using structuralism to analyze interaction design portfolio sites. I think this is a great idea, and it prompted me to think about what constitutes a good portfolio site for an interaction designer. I am particularly interested in the role of design process in an interaction design portfolio. A…
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For this project I was thinking of structurally and phonologically examining the common web survey. I would look at 2 or 3 representative surveys, possibly ones made at Zoomerang or survey monkey. It is already clear to me that online surveys have a very clear syntagm. So what do you think of this idea? Do…
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…
“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…
Today a classmate of mine, Aaron Houssian, presented his research plan for a serious game framework. His well-done presentation and this interesting discussion prompted me to think about serious games of all varieties. According to Wikipedia, a serious game is a software application developed with game technology and game design principles for a primary purpose…
Here is a presentation I found last year when I was Marty’s RA, looking for new material for his course. – http://web.archive.org/web/20040407205056/www.richgold.org/SMART/HTML/slide2.html This guy, Rich Gold, was a researcher at PARC before he passed away. Pretty cool stuff, my favorites are: How smart does the bed in your house have to be before you are…
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