Worst case scenario: Ethnomethodology fails because you can’t dive into the users’ culture for a year and even if you could, first you’d have to acquire all of their special training, education, experience, etc. Ethnomethodological phenomenology fails because you might ask the user the wrong kinds of “why” questions, or ask them the wrong way,…
THIS GUY. And probably some of you too. I came across the following video, http://www.break.com/index/we-didnt-start-the-viral.html on Digg today. I’m kind of a Billy Joel fan so I decided to watch it. How many of those videos do you guys recognize? I knew a saddeningly high %. Anyway I posted that mainly because I thought a…
I wrote a last minute paper for the CHI workshop on Secrets and Lies in Computer-Mediated Interaction: Theory, Methods and Design . Here’s the abstract for the paper I submitted. Deception in massively multiplayer online role playing games is a complex and nuanced issue. Anonymity and the deceptive behavior it enables are required to facilitate…
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So I was watching MTV last night (I know… you can feel free to make fun of me the next time you see me) and I saw one of those text messaging commercials. I’ve looked on Youtube for a video of the commercial, with no luck of course. It went something like this: Text Game…
So back to the topic of games, I’ve posted a few times on this… but games are important: we spend more money on online games than music. Gaming is the #1 online activity. HCI studies technology with very different methodological and philosophical bent than Computer Science or it’s many sister sciences, that of phenomenology. This…
I didn’t want to make the comment in class, plus the video is way funnier. Eddie Izzard who you might know from Ocean’s 12 and 13 and the Riches, is also a comedian and has a great stand up routine (Dress to Kill) from a few years ago. Here are his thoughts on guns! (Guns…
I too would like to thank Marty for the great introduction/explanation of prewriting. His examples were helpful and his presentation made perfect sense. I left class last week on Tuesday thinking that prewriting would be a breeze ☺ Even with a decent starting point (emphasize “decent” here) and Bowie playing in the background (I took…
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