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Conceptual Gaps in Interaction “Design”
I’m not finished working on my multipart series, “Interaction Criticism: How to Do It,” and I’m really looking forward to the next installment, which will present and discuss some examples from “serious” design criticism (i.e., design criticism published in academic … Continue reading
Interaction Criticism: How to Do It, Part 5
Examples and Explanations of Design Criticism Writing Last week I posted Part 4 in my series on Interaction Criticism. Since then, I have read many more examples of design criticism, and so I want to expand on what I wrote … Continue reading
Interaction Criticism: How to Do It, Part 4
Produce a Critique, Or, What and How to Write Continued from Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. I apologize that it has taken a week to resume writing in this series. Part of the problem was a very busy … Continue reading
Interaction Criticism: How to Do It, Part 3
Building a Critical Interpretation This post continues a multi-part series on interaction criticism begun here. The series goal is to offer a useful introduction to criticism in the context of interaction design, targeted at interaction design professionals. In the previous … Continue reading
Interaction Criticism: How to Do it, Part 2
Low-Level Interpretive Strategies, or, Things to Look For In Part 1 of this series, I covered three high-level critical strategies: thinking through associations, modeling the act of reading/interpretation, and identifying resonant passages/examples. Reading through them, I can imagine interaction design … Continue reading
Interaction Criticism: How to Do It, Part 1
[Update] I have converted this 7-part series to a convenient PDF. You can download it here. General Introduction In my previous post I concluded that those of us who have a foot in the two worlds of literary/art criticism and … Continue reading
Article on Web Accessibility
If you are interested in learning more about perspectives on web accessibility, you may be interested in the article Web Accessibility: A Digital Divide for Disabled People by Alison Adams and David Kreps. You can view the article by using … Continue reading
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Class Notes for Tu, 25 Mar 2008
All, I’ve posted notes from today’s lecture. You can find the notes using either of the two links below: Freemind Format (open in Freemind) XHTML Format Regards, -Bob rmolnar[at]indiana[dot]edu
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Lecture Live Blog 03.04.2008
Kengo Kuma, Tea room building as a critical act the construction of the building out of paper is a critique of human spaces and the effect of these spaces on human interaction and condition tea space is built according to … Continue reading
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mix tapes vs. digital playlists (mediation, meaningful objects and sign values)
Last week, I conducted some user studies to learn about music libraries. One of the participants commented on how cool mix tapes were yet how rarely he creates playlists in iTunes. I started to wonder about the differences between old … Continue reading
