Posts Tagged ‘ Not crazy ’

The Stuff of Thought

  • June 25th, 2010
  • Posted in Reading

One critical review of Steven Pinker’s populist science book The Stuff of Thought describes how the title “Things the Mind Does” might be more fitting. The Stuff of Thought is not a neuroscience account of the relation between our crinkled grey matter, and the phenomena we call thinking. Instead Pinker’s linguistic vantage point looks at [ READ MORE ]

Metaphorically Speaking

In 1980 George Lakoff and Gregg Johnson published Metaphors We Live By. The book made the case that most of our thinking is largely metaphorical in nature; that we directly apply our understanding of the less abstract to the more abstract. Their description of metaphoric language as reflective of a thinking mind irrevocably situated in [ READ MORE ]

Found “Where the Action Is”

This past weekend I finished Where the Action Is by Paul Dourish. It’s the book I didn’t know I needed to read years ago. Back then I spent a bit of time in meetings drawing grids of small circles and thinking “What IS a button?”. In Action Dourish tours through sociology, psychology, phillosophy, and HCI (among [ READ MORE ]

Research for Design (for Interaction)

Finished reading Dan Saffer’s Designing For Interaction (second edition). Saffer offers a well rounded introduction into the history, problem space, and practices of the field of interaction design today. Saffer covers any general questions an individual interested in IxD might have, and while light for my needs, he does (in this edition) offer a number [ READ MORE ]

InterACTIVE -> InterACTION

  • January 11th, 2010
  • Posted in News

Ironically enough, after spending half a quarter in Studio 1 being schooled in the historically contingent definition of interactive design and arguing that it’s most pertinent quality (interaction with screens) is currently best situated within interaction design, a couple little birds have informed me that interactive program here at SCAD will be subsumed, in some way, [ READ MORE ]