My experience was pretty similar to Mike’s as he described in the previous post. I did a lot of whiteboard work as well as a short analysis of the thing I was looking at (youtube comment dialogues for political discourse). I finished the assignment up with a document with prose, putting all of my ideas…
J.J Gibson. I guess I am loving him. I have interests in ecologial issues as systematic approach in designing. I am still so confused that I could not define it in my mine yet. So, I want to study about him and his research further. Prof. Jeff. Could you give me the information more about his ecological theory of perception. And…
Thursday’s class discussion, Dave mentioned the prison in Manovich’s book. It is saying in cinema, two hundred people stay at a dark room, they don’t move, they don’t speak, they are all sitting at their designated seats orderly and watch a same huge white board( movie screen) for three hours, doesn’t it equal to prisoner…
If it is the motion make films living compared with photographs, and therefore gives films overwhelming power to encourage the directors to express and create far beyond record and remind, entice audience to involve beyond just know and accept. What is the motion in HCI? The dynamics in a social network? The feedback and guiding …
This summer I read an interesting article by Jerome Bruner about how we (humans) are actively creating narratives of our experiences. He argues that narrative is really the only way we can understand experiences and the only way we can communicate our experiences to others. While we are experiencing something, we are thinking about how…
In regards to film theory, are we saying that the opposition ‘realism vs. formalism’ mirrors the opposition ‘phenomenology vs. structuralism’? Is realism in film purely phenomenological and formalism in film purely structuralist? I came across the following entry in wikipedia under ‘Formalist Film Theory’ and ‘Ideological Formalism’: “It can be argued that, by this [formalist]…
I like how Aaron reflects the film theory back to HCI. The similarities and dissimilarities between these two are really good insights to review HCI. Another topic covered both in the reading and the question for in-class exercise might be “realism” and “formalism.” I am not sure if I understand them right. Concerning realism, cinema phtographically copy…
So with the last question Jeff gave us for our in-class exercise on Thursday I was happy that we are starting to relate film theory and the philosophy stuff (which I have really enjoyed, don’t get me wrong!) back to HCI. This was in fact a major drawback of a couple parts of a course…
Maybe many of you have been to this website. Scivee is like the Youtube for scientists and researchers. The website is created by UC San Diego and the patron behind this is National Science Foundation(NSF). Subjects on this site are mainly about bioengineering and medicine. Users post their papers, presentations and research processes online and…
BRUCE WILLIS Color – as in Sin City or Hero o Color effects mood, draws attention to various aspects • Lighting – o Lighting effects mood • Sound o • Montage • Camera Position • Mise en scene o Overall composition –props, actors, scene • Acting • Special effects o Constructed sets o Backdrops o …
Interaction Culture 