One to One Interactive Videos
Since Jeremi Karnell was here on Tuesday, i thought you’d all get a kick out of the videos they’ve produced for the upcoming MITX awards ceremony: http://www.otoinsights.com/2007/11/if-your-agency-.html
Reflection: values and functionality
David’s post “Balancing values and usability” reminds me of a book I read in this summer. It is written in Chinese, which is called “Creative Economy.” The book introduced ten famous designers in Asia, inclusive of their profiles, works and design philosophies. I would like to discuss more about the “values” of designers based on…
Breaking syntatic and paradigmatic rules to produce meaning
In class this week we talked about structuralism and syntagms and paradigms. We had examples sentences like : The cat ate the mouse. The mouse ate the cat. Cat the ate mouse the. The lady read the book. The noun read the book. The third example is nonsense because it breaks syntax, it’s not a…
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Balancing Values & Usability
“The landscape as well as the city are both highly structured, and our existence is furnished with many different kinds of devices and technological systems. These are what instruct people in contemporary societies ‘how to live.’” -De Vries There is a wealth of design and social science literature that suggests that the artifacts we use…
Experimental Experience
Recently, in lecture, in another class, one of my professors (a very cool and intelligent one IMHO) was venting a little steam about how people commonly over- and mis-use the term “experiment” to describe what he refers to as “experiences”. Experiments, as he described them, take place in a completely controlled environment, in which there…
History of Film and HCI
A quick note that the mappings between HCI and film in this post are not intended to be accurate, but are meant to ask some hopefully thought provoking questions. The early days of film saw a split into the realist and formalist camps. You can loosely associate realism with the early focus of HCI on…
Interaction criticism in action
Yesterday a friend sent me this link, and today Erik posted it to the HCI listserve as an example “worth reflection and critique”: http://www.infinityart.ro/ I think this site is a great artifact to which we can apply the critical approaches we have been learning in class. Using a phenomenological lens, my first thought is that…
Questions about concepts from structuralism and phenomenology
I got a question from today’s lecture, and tried to answer them by myself, however, I don’t know if my understanding is correct or not, and hope someone, for example Jeff could help ^_^ about “Connotation”: If connotation associates with emotional things and is “subjective”, what is the relationship between connotation and “horizons” in phenomenology?…
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Lecture Liveblog: 10-30-07
Talk and QA with Jeremi Karnell, President of One to One Interactive. Convergence between the research challenges of interactive media and HCI. Multi-modal approach to remove cognitive and subjective biases in research. Semiotics and Structuralism Structuralism identifies the elements of meanings and how they are juxtaposed and organized together. Structures are common patterns or orderings…
anti-structuralism: Oh, I think I have been used to phenomenological thinking
I guess the most educational part for me in this class is the phenomenological perspective. I have to confess that I was not a very understanding person before. I often got caught in arguments with other people. When other people didn’t think the same way as I thought, my instinct was to take his view…
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