In this month’s Interactions magazine, there is an article I feel ambivalent about. It is Gaver and Höök’s “In Search of the Elusive CHI Design Paper“. I am ambivalent because there is much that I agree with and support, but at the same time some of its language–and practices it seems to support that I…
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This is an interesting blog post that I came across. In the class I think we did not discuss the issue of trusting the information presented in the museums. Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age Definitely worth a read.
http://www.diveintoaccessibility.org/ —>Dive Into Accessibility, 30 days to a more accessible web site http://www.diveintoaccessibility.org/by_disability.html —> Browse Tips by disability (This I found useful to me, esp. those cases.) http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/ —>Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices
Going along the example sean gave of the text editor, i was wondering if you can add on to a list the instances where experience prototyping or designing has made a big difference in computers. I dont have that many examples but from the top of my head i can think of – 1. Picassa…
6 billion Others is a project by Yann-Arthus Bertrand ‘aiming to create a sensitive and human portrait of the planet’s inhabitants’, which I think is an avant-garde ethnographic project with aiming ‘the enlargement of the universe of human discourse’ (Geertz, 1973, The Interpretation of Cultures). The project team conducted 6,000 interviews in 65 countries and…
This is the question (really, the paragraphs…) I emailed Jeff the other day. I’ve been thinking about this concept of The Real that we’ve been talking about lately, as well as the concept of “an experience” from earlier. It seems that part of the definition of The Real that we’ve been dealing with implies that…
Here are the notes from today’s lectures: (Get better soon, Bob! You’re much better at this than I am! LOL) Announcement: One of the authors of the article we are to read for Thursday’s class is Phoebe Sengers, and she is: 1. coming to our class on Thursday , SO PLEASE DO YOUR READING FOR…
Last week Jeff talked about an mp3 player being more “real” of an experience than a CD player because you have access to an entire library of songs, and thus can choose the song that is most appropriate to any given situation. But there’s a bit of a problem to this theory. There is an…
All, My apologies for not getting these notes to you earlier. I ran out of room on my account (but have since rectified that): For Tu, 05 Feb 2008: Freemind Format (open in Freemind) XHTML Format I should have the notes from last Thursday (31 January 2008) posted later this afternoon. Regards, -Bob rmolnar[at]indiana[dot]edu
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…
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