Kengo Kuma, Tea room building as a critical act the construction of the building out of paper is a critique of human spaces and the effect of these spaces on human interaction and condition tea space is built according to the scale of a human (rather than scale of a car, etc..) a notion of…
Last week, I conducted some user studies to learn about music libraries. One of the participants commented on how cool mix tapes were yet how rarely he creates playlists in iTunes. I started to wonder about the differences between old and new music media formats. In particular, I was interested in the differences between mix…
Read more mix tapes vs. digital playlists (mediation, meaningful objects and sign values)
Jenny Brown sent around a link to this website. I believe it does a nice job illustrating many of the aesthetic concepts we struggled with yesterday (especially hypermediation!). http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf p.s. if it is illegal to post this link for some reason, I take full responsibility for it and ask you to forget that I mentioned…
We all have a general conception about aesthetics and we discussed most of that in the class. Based on that I tried to have a discussion with my fellow photographer friends. In common terms, it is something that is appealing, an epitome of beauty, a piece of art, or more broadly something that gives us…
People have asked me some questions about the expression assignment, and I thought I would collect and answer them here. This is important, because if you don’t understand what these key concepts mean, you can’t do the assignment correctly. Make sure you have a clear idea of what is “an expression” and “an experience” before…
Most of people say that there is merely no dichotomy theory to divide an idea, or identification or explanation to explain about a certain phenomenon in an obvious way since there are the numerous things that we cannot explain. I am so tedious with this opinion since I was also telling to LB, and Sean…
I’m in an informal reading group with some of the gang from complex systems, cog sci, and linguistics. One of the papers we’re reading for today really illuminated – in an HCI/d way – the talk Jeff was giving yesterday about the shared collective space of intention, meaning, and understanding. Since I know Dewey and…
A recent entry on the logic+emotion blog discusses David Lee King‘s forthcoming book on digital experience design. In this book preview three main components of experience design for digital media (particularly websites) arise, namely:
Interaction Culture 