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…
I was a little bit shocked by the post-structuralism. What is it talking about? There’s no self? Yes, I am constructing myself when I was writing this post. I want myself doesn’t sound stupid, I don’t want anyone knows that I haven’t read Jeff’s reading for this week. 🙂 But that is me, isn’t it?…
Certain aspects of a post-structuralist perspective are very cohesive and useful for analysis. But how can post-structuralism prematurely claim we cannot discover truth about the world without stating this as its discovered truth? Perhaps this might be perceived as a play on words, but doesn’t every theory attempting to explain the world indulge itself in some proclamation of…
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For a brief moment in class today, I toyed with the idea (in my head) of asking just what if there were a way of measuring language games so that one could arguably state that language game A is better than language game B, what could this measurement be? If we by some miracle could…
Some research is finding that people of different continental origins have different DNA. The article does give examples of products/designs that are already operating under that assumption (the heart disease drug for African Americans). Concern about “support” for racism is mentioned (if people really are genetically different, then…) and talk of this research leading to…
There is a reasonable amount of existing work in the area of avatars and online identity. Many researchers have commented on why people style avatars like themselves (or not like), identified the avatar as an extension of the self, etc … However, I do not know if I’ve ever seen a formal structural analysis of…
For this project I was thinking of structurally and phonologically examining the common web survey. I would look at 2 or 3 representative surveys, possibly ones made at Zoomerang or survey monkey. It is already clear to me that online surveys have a very clear syntagm. So what do you think of this idea? Do…
This is one of the three mobile phones HTC just released. The company plans to have more patterned mobile phones become available in the market in the near future. I have not seen mobile phone like this in America. In Asia, where lots of people are crazy about knowing and buying mobiles that just enter…
Should we read Manovich or Bolter & Gromala, and Bardzell&Bardzell for next week?
I know that today we were trying to find the code how to interpret those movies. We were talking about one detail give us clues about what would happen later, and the camera positions tell us blablabla. However, David mentioned that the director forced us to see the focuses and the next screen, we have…
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