These days, one of the important issues among my realizations is that it is so hard to design a certain solution for user without having to understand their contextual stories. (I did not realize the fact when I was conducting user study in participatory observation method two years ago. I suddenly realize this fact now)…
Last night we went to mad scientist ball party as last year. It is an event held by psychology and informatics school annually before Halloween. Faculty and student come together to have fun together. Last year I have been here and I dress my Nowitzki’s jersey and to be a basketball star. This year for…
I was struggling on selecting a theory from the phenomenology system and a concrete HCI phenomena from my personal interests. Because I always found they’re hard to be connected. One of my interest is the online Anime book watching, but what to apply there? Ready-to-hand? Ethnomethodology? Activity theory? I found none of them fits to…
Read more pre-writing experience: “Instant Messenger and Activity Theory”
Clarion Health Partners in Indianapolis uses software for the management of patient records. Nurses and physicians interact with software extensively to get their jobs done. The integration of technology for hospitals and patient care is continuing to be used in more integral ways with the hope that it will assist in alleviating the high costs…
O MY GOD, I just realized that I didn’t finish my pre-writing until now. However, I did some reflection-on-action work. After Tuesday’s class I decided to do the most time-consuming work: re-read those readings and gather all my notes and those underlined sentences together! It turns out that it is a huge project! Usually I…
“Activities shape the requirements of particular tools, and the application of the tools begins to reshape dimensions of activity.” iPod Touch When planning on the next generation of ipod, Apple wanted a better view for photos and videos, and a more intuitive way of interaction. As a result, they integrated the multi-touch function and the…
Read more Examples on the reciprocal relationship between activities and tools
Before reading my blogging, I want to let you know briefly about my assumption. I guess the assumption is somewhat ridiculous. Turning back Macro/Micro point of views or Composing/Decomposing issues of human beings, I wanted to think about the views and the issues in Post-modernism and ecological system. I don’t read the book, ‘The Ecological Approach…
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.…
I started to think about how different theories constrain and open up the space for design but got caught up in trying to sort out how exactly these theoretic traditions (rationalism/cognitive science, phenomenology, activity theory) are similar and different. It would be nice to have some sort of philosophical foundations of HCI cheat sheet. Here…
Nine friends played Wii games today at my home including sport games and Mario party games. We have four handlers which means that we could have four people play at the same time. When we played those minigames, eight of us were really enjoy. Another one was very busy and working by using her laptop.…
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