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…
Hey Chief- This is a friendly reminder to post your lecture notes (such as they are) to oncourse so we may profit from your hours of preparation and hard work. Excluding any blood sweat and tears is appreciated.
This is a repost from my blog. On a personal note I would like to thank Jeff for the amount of himself that he poured into this class, and the seriousness with which you, my classmates, treated all of our work, while still having fun (at least I did). I don’t have any logical or…
Facebook gets your data whether you opt out or not, yikes! http://tinyurl.com/23urxn Block them with http://tinyurl.com/2g5gth Wish I had time to post more about it, but the bottom line is that FB is receiving data about what you do online all the time even when it’s not published on your feed if you have a…
I’m pre-writing my final paper today and after reading the assignment I wondered if perhaps Jeff couldn’t post a link to the template you would like us to use. I’m kind of assuming that the CHI format you are talking about is the landscape one with two columns and the third row for callouts and…
So we were introduced to the idea of the lack of the unity of the self in class. This idea is really easy to see in online spaces. We LOVE being other people, constructing who we are, “putting our best foot forward,” and role playing. We can analyze all this using structuralism, see Joel Stein’s…
Emergency3 is obviously the third in a series of a games. This game is often considered a serious game, but I would say it’s more of a real-time strategy game that makes you really appreciate how difficult being a first responder or incident commander can be. This game takes on an isometric view with adjustable…
In class this week we talked about structuralism and syntagms and paradigms. We had examples sentences like : The cat ate the mouse. The mouse ate the cat. Cat the ate mouse the. The lady read the book. The noun read the book. The third example is nonsense because it breaks syntax, it’s not a…
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So I have expressed it here before, and Thursday’s discussion reminded me of it again. Language seems to structure our cognition. Can we ever have a thought that is not language based? If we did have such a thought could it have any meaning? What I’m saying here is that the unit of analysis of…
So like Tyler, I’m cheating, and using my prewriting assignment for the assignment that I have to turn in for Erik’s class next week. So the concrete phenomena I have is raising Ezra & Micah. Of course I’m not alone in this, I expect that my wife is part of the design team, and doesn’t…
Interaction Culture 