Jared Donovan

Floppy hat day

Jared Donovan — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 02:39:33 +0000

My Brother-in-law says that PhD stands for ‘permanent head damage’ (Relevant link).

Reading group: Harrison et al, The Three Paradigms of HCI

Jared Donovan — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:15:43 +0000

Notes from today’s reading group, where we discussed the following paper:

Harrison, S., Tatar, D., and Sengers, P. The three paradigms of HCI. In Alt. chi. Proceedings of CHI ’07. ACM Press, NY, 2006.

(Click for a big version)

1906 SF Quake Stereo Photos

Jared Donovan — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:51:34 +0000

My friend Tim shared a link to an interesting post about some very early color stereo photographs taken of the 1906 SF quake.

I figured it would be fun to try to combine them into animated gifs – like you do. Here’s how they turned out.

(I think the final one might have been restored or something? It looks like the plates are identical in one part on the lower right)

Pretty print javascript with enscript

Jared Donovan — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 02:57:04 +0000

For future reference, the following command will format a javascript source file as a 2-up syntax highlighted postscript file (you can open this in preview.app).

enscript -2Gr --color -Ejavascript file.js -ofile.ps

Move to get moved

Jared Donovan — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:29:24 +0000

“…if one truly likes to design for movement-based interaction, one has to be or become an expert in movement, not just theoretically, by imagination or on paper, but by doing and experiencing while designing. So, besides having knowledge of the salient aspects of embodied interaction, one has to move in order to design movements.”

Hummels, C., Overbeeke, K., & Klooster, S. (2007). Move to get moved: a search for methods, tools and knowledge to design for expressive and rich movement-based interaction. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 11(8), 677-690. doi:10.1007/s00779-006-0135-y

Location-Based Games

Jared Donovan — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:50:07 +0000

Can you see me now location based game (image from Benford et al. 2006)

‘Location-based games’ is another term used in HCI research that relates to interaction from the ground up theme. In this game, players were chased through the city by runners equipped with wifi and GPS sensors.

Benford, S., Crabtree, A., Flintham, M., Drozd, A., Anastasi, R., Paxton, M., Tandavanitj, N., et al. (2006). Can you see me now? ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact., 13(1), 100-133. doi:10.1145/1143518.1143522

Exertion Games

Jared Donovan — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:25:14 +0000

Table tennis for three (image from Mueller, Gibbs & Vetere 2009)

Lots of references to follow and makes some sensible sounding points for things you might want to consider when design such an interface.

Mueller, F. ‘., Gibbs, M. R., & Vetere, F. (2009). Design influence on social play in distributed exertion games. In Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 1539-1548). Boston, MA, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/1518701.1518938

UED2010 Wk3: Design Movement

Jared Donovan — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:38:15 +0000

Tuesday:

Introductory lecture with Sietske Klooster.
Movement workshop.
Finding a place to design a ‘footwork’ for.
Presenting footworks to the class.

Friday:

Present a designed object that trys to elicit the footwork.
Classmates try out first, then we discuss experiences.
Redesign object to refine the movment.
Present and try out again in the afternoon.
End with a little reflection session on the week.

UED2010 Wk 2: Design Research

Jared Donovan — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:07:22 +0000

Again, some brief notes about the second week of the course.

Tuesday:

Continued with the servo-motor activity.
Concentrated on refining the movement towards the two words.
Got to a stage where the sculptures could be left to run by themselves.
Set up a little exhibition at 14:00. Invited the first years and staff.
Placed the cards out on the table and asked people to guess what the pair for each sculpture was.

Friday:

Lecture in class on the idea of research though design.
Discussion of four papers on this topic.
Discussion of initial ideas for a design project.
We decided to run a video card game as a survey of possible interesting design contexts

Readings

Fallman, D. (2007). Why Research-Oriented Design Isn’t Design-Oriented Research: On the Tensions Between Design and Research in an Implicit Design Discipline. Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 20(3), 193-200. doi:Article

Wolf, T. V., Rode, J. A., Sussman, J., & Kellogg, W. A. (2006). Dispelling “design” as the black art of CHI. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems (pp. 521-530). Montréal, Québec, Canada: ACM. doi:10.1145/1124772.1124853

Wright, P., Blythe, M., & McCarthy, J. (2006). User Experience and the Idea of Design in HCI. In Interactive Systems (pp. 1-14). Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11752707_1

Zimmerman, J., Stolterman, E., & Forlizzi, J. (2010). An analysis and critique of Research through Design: towards a formalization of a research approach. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 310-319). Aarhus, Denmark: ACM. doi:10.1145/1858171.1858228

Additional references

A couple of additional references were mentioned in the lecture and discussions. These are included below.

Checkland, Mackay, Braa & Vigden, Frayling, Archer

Archer, B. (1995). The nature of research. Co-design, 6-13.

Braa, K., & Vidgen, R. (1995). Action Case: Exploring the middle kingdom in information system research methods. In Proceedings of 3rd Decennial Conference Computers in context: Joining Forces in Design (pp. 50-60). Århus, Denmark.

Checkland, P., & Holwell, S. (1998). Action Research: Its Nature and Validity. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 11(1), 9-21. doi:10.1023/A:1022908820784

Frayling, C. (1993). Research in Art and Design. Royal College of Art Research Papers, 1(1), 1-5.

Mackay, W. E., & Fayard, A. (1997). HCI, natural science and design: a framework for triangulation across disciplines. In Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques (pp. 223-234). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: ACM. doi:10.1145/263552.263612

Power Laces

Jared Donovan — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:30:30 +0000

Power Laces 2 PROTOTYPE DEMO…..juh?