Awhile back I somehow got into a conversation with someone (I can’t remember who at this time) and he brought up a study he had read or heard about where an experiment was conducted on monkeys. I’m reiterating his reiteration of what the experiment was, so forgive me if it’s not accurate. Essentially monkeys were…
An interesting piece on some artistic explorations of interface culture. I actually think some of the most interesting parts were in the comments: “I mess up in real life and my left pinky and index finger motion for CTRL-Z.” “After using a computer pretty much daily for 18 years, I have already tried to undo…
This is the last edition of Guide to Greener Electronics. Nintendo became the first “not-green” company and the first one who got 0/10. The news entry The list Greenspace rank companies according to their policies and practices on toxic chemicals used in products and take back. When I read this news, the first thing came…
Here is an article that I meant to share with all of you sooner. It is a framework for critiquing interfaces, from Bertelsen & Pold. You may find it helpful as you work on your papers. From a philosophical standpoint, I have some issues with it. But from a practical standpoint, I’m really glad it’s…
As previously discussed (I & II), change or movement in time plays an important role in making interaction design ‘alive’. Over the holidays, my brother pointed out a chat website called paltalk (www.paltalk.com). It is an interesting concept because in addition to live streaming chat rooms, many users have a webcam showing their live faces…
For my paper, I’ve been looking at tagging on sites like Del.icio.us and Flickr. Lots of interesting design opportunities here (e.g. vocabulary problems, identifying communities of practice, adapting to site navigation). One thing I found particularly interesting was how much you can learn about someone from their tag cloud (and how eager some people are…
When designer is describing user. Keywords: Ambiguity, Interpretation, Editoriality(Plausible), Authentic design I am not sure if I am successful to finish this final paper, since I have still studied in my interesting areas: The interpretation of experience from narrative to storytelling or from storytelling to narrative: recursive system or not. This is my current problem…
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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For my capstone, I aim to create a website that helps dorm residents become more aware of and reduce their use of electricity. To do so I plan to hold an energy-saving contest and then display real-time data from electric meters on the site. My inspiration comes from a project done at Oberlin College: http://www.oberlin.edu/dormenergy/…
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