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.…
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…
EPIC (Ethnographic Praxis in Industry) is, as its name suggests, a conference about the implications and uses of ethnography in industry. I was a little surprised (and pleased) that about 80% of the presenters and participants were from industry, and only about 20% were academics. Intel, Microsoft, and IBM are very well represented here, as…
To help clarify questions about structuralism, I just posted a lengthy comment to Jungyoun’s post about her picture in which I offered a structuralist-inspired analysis. I think many of you might be interested in seeing a simple example of structuralism at work, so I decided to repost my comment here, so you don’t miss it.…
Read more An Interpretation About One of Jungyoun’s Pictures
While we are on the subject of visual languages, I thought some of you might be interested to see that IU has visual identity guidelines: http://visualidentity.iu.edu/index.shtml Interestingly, under the new media category, there are a bunch of PowerPoint templates. I’m hoping they’ll replace the whiteboard in our classroom with a redboard, so my lectures can…
I’m involved in an interesting informal “Brand 2.0 Master Class” over at Innovation Playground. The question we’re all wrestling with is what “Brand” is now with the numerous changes in the consumer culture. For those of you who have not encountered formalized definitions of “brand”, here is a pretty good sample from the Wikipedia entry:…
Gilliam Smith talks about the importance of IT systems to support social aspects of work AND leisure and that this is necessary for the well-being and the efficiency of the user. I know that Jeff has emphasized this throughout all of the classes I have taken with him, which has remained something I am very…
Interaction Culture 