Tag Archives: Reading Response

Just read Jeanna Hamilton’s midterm reflection, and you can check it out here.

The levels of description are many, and this is a thorough analysis of pedestrian walkways and the interaction of people using it. As an example of human interaction research for our Instruction Sets for Strangers projects, I would be interested in hearing more about hat happens when there are enhancements or improvements to environments as [...]

These readings are amazing. “Ubiquitous Gaming”, for instance, is a great continuation of the Norman discussions of “affordance”: “It is not the references or cognitive concepts that ubicomp wants to proliferate; it is, rather, interactive experiences and phenomenal affordances that will be made pervasive.” (234) In my own investigations with sound, I feel that interactive [...]

While reading Michael de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life, I immediately thought of the film The Cruise, directed by Bennett Miller, which is a documentary of sorts on Timothy “Speed” Levitch, a New York City Bus Tour Guide. Levitch’s life is tied directly to the fleeting nature of the city, which always exists in [...]

Just read the midterm paper written by Kelly Nichols. Especially enjoyed his inquiry into the application of art theory. You can read it here.

In our initial research of Bryan Park, Minhao and I decided to identify where the visitors of the park most preferred to sit, stand or walk-through. We walked through the park at specific times during the day, and we watched each of the 11 different entrances/exits of the park. It’s interesting to read in Willam [...]

This is a well-documented write-up. As opposed to Hertzian Tales, which was a challenge for me to digest all of the references, Urban Probes balanced well between references, theories and new findings. I try to research each of references these articles bring up, and I was especially shocked when I read about the Kitty Genovese [...]

I thoroughly enjoyed the Gaver, Dunne, and Pacenti reading, Cultural Probes. I felt that the piece was well written, and it left me feeling inspired with the current “Instruction Sets for Strangers” project. There were a number of passages and quotes that I wanted to include in the reading response, but here is one which [...]

Atlantic Online | July/August 2008 | Is Google Making Us Stupid? | Nicholas Carr “Taylor assured his followers, it would bring about a restructuring not only of industry but of society, creating a utopia of perfect efficiency. ‘In the past the man has been first,’ he declared; ‘in the future the system must be first.’” [...]