Tag: cmu
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Guest Lecturer: Preetham Kolari, Sonic Rim
Preetham Kolari, of Sonic Rim, gave a talk in Seminar 2 about design research. His message was somewhat unique in that he split design research into methods and attitudes. The methods included: self ethnography contextual interviews applied ethnography deployment studies participatory design cognitive mapping collaging velcro modeling I’ve been introduced to or used those. So…
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Verbal Argument in the Design Process
I had a group meeting today, as is often the case. We met for almost three hours. During this time, we produced no tangible results. No models of the system, no scenario storyboard, no interface sketches. About two hours in, one of my group members asked what we were doing because it didn’t seem like…
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Guest Lecturer: Chris Pacione
Chris Pacione, director of BodyMedia, gave a guest lecture in our Seminar 2 class on Monday. He defined interaction design as posing a different question: not thinking about the object, but the situations. Nothing new for us at this point. However, he proffered Design be taught as a grade school subject, equal to Math, English,…
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I need a whiteboard to diagram my warring obligations
Seminar Paper I downloaded about 30 research papers that I thought might pertain to my Seminar paper topic for Jodi Forlizzi. Yes, I know that’s too much. But around every corner is another fascinating paper on some aspect of design. I suppose this insatiable appetite is why I’m in this program. I also bought Donald…
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Design for Knowledge
The other day we had a lecture on design research. We were first asked what we thought design research was. There was silence. “I know what research is,” I thought. But design research. Why did the posing of the question make it seem different? I ventured a guess. “Methods,” I said. It went on the…