Jamin Hegeman

Tag: cmu

  • Two Minute Madness

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    I may have mentioned before that our final assignment for Jodi Forlizzi’s Seminar 2 class is a 15-page paper on a topic of our choice. While I turned in a draft of this paper a few days ago, I am still having trouble saying what it is the paper is about. Tomorrow, I have to…

  • Teaching Next Semester

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    A while back Dan Boyarski asked if I would teach Introduction to Computing in Design this fall, and I accepted. The title of the course doesn’t say a lot, and the current description is even worse. But essentially I will be teaching the incoming interaction design students how to prototype in Flash. I can’t say…

  • Guest Lecturer: Preetham Kolari, Sonic Rim

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    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…

  • Verbal Argument in the Design Process

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    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…

  • Guest Lecturer: Chris Pacione

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    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,…

  • I need a whiteboard to diagram my warring obligations

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    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…

  • Design for Knowledge

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    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…

  • Golan Levin’s Digital Art Presentation

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    Today I went to a School of Art lecture series featuring Golan Levin, who teaches my information visualization class with Ben Fry. He showed mostly older work, but it was an interesting and impressive display of digital art. His Manual Input Sessions work was the most impressive. Hand gestures made on a projector produce shapes…

  • Happy Birthday to Me

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    I’m not one to go around telling people it’s my birthday, which is why this post is coming 40 minutes after my birthday (unless you’re on the west coast). It was a fun experiment to see if anyone would say anything. My number one suspect for getting the word out: Facebook. At around 4 p.m.…