I have tried to come up with something from our blog fodder this week. I use “something” instead of the truth, “nothing” , to avoid being beat by a hockey stick, although the “something” is a mess. Activity Theory is object-oriented. People work with a tool to achieve the goal in a social context. There…
Jeff– Is there anything we should do to prepare for the pre-writing exercise on Tuesday?
So… Dourish claims that “… if our technical practice is built on those foundations, then the arguments are deeply relevant, because they determine the limits of what can be done and the chances for success of our efforts to have people and computers work effectively together.” In other words, if HCI is rooted in a…
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 know some of the people (and by some I mean the VAST majority) in the class are second years and therefore have had some access to CHI in the past. I had dinner at Scotties with a few people last night and we talked a bit about what all went on last year and…
We are always already on philosophical foundations and deploying those philosophical systems in our systems and interactions. Philosophical foundations determine the limits of what can be done. Hierarchical menu structures assumes that the world is hierarchically structured and relationships can be reduced to a static mapping. Produces interfaces like Windows Explorer. Breakdowns like “was this…
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…
Interaction Culture 