The Consumerist reports that Target has started selling David Bowie themed clothing designed by Keenan Duffy. Hooray! Bowie has inspired Duffty since childhood and, through his music, taught the designer to experiment across different creative mediums. Duffty applies this lesson to his eclectic encore collection that debuts on October 14 at most Target stores and…
Like Kayce, i was taking in the cultural nuance this weekend that is MTV. Actually, i happened upon the MySpace/MTV Political thingamajig on Friday night, and was only able to stomach the first 10 minutes or so. John Edwards was the focus, but my dislike of the forum had little to do with the candidate.…
I started to think about how different theories constrain and open up the space for design but got caught up in trying to sort out how exactly these theoretic traditions (rationalism/cognitive science, phenomenology, activity theory) are similar and different. It would be nice to have some sort of philosophical foundations of HCI cheat sheet. Here…
On Tuesday, we mentioned the notion of needing flexible models of creativity, or any complex reality, in order to create designs with strong HCI foundations (I think). I decided to try to apply this to word processors. Before the age of word processors, most of our papers were written on plain sheets of ruled white…
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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“Movement brings us volume and volume suggests life.” Human response to change, or our embodied reaction within Δ time, is what makes movement so powerful and film such a vivid experience. The dimension of time necessitates that we make use of our memory in a different way. When we look at an image, we reflect…
Nine friends played Wii games today at my home including sport games and Mario party games. We have four handlers which means that we could have four people play at the same time. When we played those minigames, eight of us were really enjoy. Another one was very busy and working by using her laptop.…
While we were discussing our Dourish reading and the necessary and implicit philosophical assumptions that people make when they design tools, I re-remembered a quote by John Maeda that I’ve mentioned before. Maeda says that when we do design with tools, we live in other people’s dreams. The idea being that those tools were themselves…
After hearing that a bunch of my cool classmates have sent in position papers for CHI workshops, I decided that I too want to try to get a paper in to a workshop. Plus, I figured I could take advantage of Jeff’s class to help me pre-write this paper. After looking through the list of…
This is NOT a plug for SLIS… I mentioned it in class last week during our list discussion and so I’m posting the link. http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/about-social-informatics I’ve been reading some of Kling’s work and it definitely relates to some of the issues we’ve discussed in class, especially the role of society while designing technology. The definition…
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