Posts Tagged ‘ Paul Dourish ’

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 ]

Thesis Prospectus Introduction

  • February 26th, 2010
  • Posted in Thoughts

Interactivity is most commonly described in terms of a conversation.1 While useful in separating the study of complex interactivity from that of traditional static forms, this description is of little use to those designers who wish to get a hand on the design of such interactivity. Some reasons for this can be found in where [ READ MORE ]

Interaction Design As Presented in “Where The Action Is”

For class wednesday (Theory of Interaction Design), we were tasked with dissecting an existing definition of interaction design. As I had just finished “Where the Action Is”, I used the assignment as an opportunity to start writing about it (and digesting Dourish’s ideas). [ 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 ]