INFO I502 Class Notes for 24 January 2008

INFO I502 Class Notes for 24 January 2008
- Administrata
  - Congratulations (again) to Will on his tie
    - Red, orange & white striped tie
    - NOT clip-on
  - Class Blog
    - http://interactionculture.wordpress.com/
    - Use the blog for questions
      - Tag it as "Questions"
    - Helps Jeff interact with class
    - Blogs is also for comments
    - The blog is a community endeavour - comment on other users' posts
  - Lecture by Microsoft VP Rick Rashid
    - Today at 4:00PM
    - Jordan Hall A100
    - Will be videotaped and posted to the web (internal)
    - Susan C. will inform Jeff of URL
- Csikszentmihalyi & Robinson (conitnued)
  - Did not tell subjects of research question
  - Four Dimensions of the Aesthetic Encounter
    - The Dimensions
      - Perceptual
        Things that we perceive through the senses (sight, touch, smell, etc.)
        EXAMPLES:
        Form
        Line
        Color
        Texture
        Even the perceptual qualities are learned
        Mediated by what you know already
      - Emotional
        Intense response
        EXAMPLES
        Joy
        Suprise
        Delight
        Inspiration
        There is temporal quality to an emotional response
        Responing with your body, not just your mind
        Similar to Turner's notion of meaning
      - Intellectual
        Cognitive dimension
        You attempt to get an aesthetic explanation of the encounter
        Open vs. closed interpretation
        Closed interpretation
        Make an effort to make connections with the parts
        Make an effort to create a holistic understanding of an artifact
        Something that you master
        Open interpretation
        Challenges what you know
        Makes one start thinking in a direction that you had not previously considered
        No mastery
        Susan Sontag
        Wrote an essay decrying interpretation
        Against Interpretation
        Sontag opined that when one interprets art, one replaces art
        Instead, Sontag proposed the "erotics of art."
        The sensual side of art
      - Communicative
        The work enables the viewer to communicate with
        a distant culture
        the artist
        the viewer him/herself
        internal monologue
        Establishes a dialogue
    - Derived from the interviews of subjects' own personal, aesthetic encounters
- Metacognition
  - Instead of solely thinking about the problem at hand, you think about how you think about the problem
- What is a framework?
  - "... the Hollywood moviemaker must be able to experience the movie in the way the public will but also must know what it takes on a technical level to help the public construct just that experience." (McCarthy & Write, p.51)
    - Movie-making is a craft
  - Frameworks are the technical practices.
  - Questions to ask when using a framework?
    - What will this get you when you use this framework?
    - What will this never get you when you use this framework?
  - Frameworks are geared toward two broad goals
    - Representation
      - Rationalist
      - Faithful, truthful, empirical, actual representation of reality
      - Empirical Understanding
      - EXAMPLES:
        User satisfication of software
        Efficiency of software
      - METHODS:
        Surveys
        Usability Studies
        Observations
        Etc.
    - Speculation
      - Historically been neglected by HCI
      - "Ramping up" in the last five years
      - Human-centered design (versus user-centered design)
      - "Think science fiction" (Elizabeth Churchill)
      - Anticipate how your design will change the world
      - Used more in the Third Wave than the First & Second Waves
      - Helps you construct a vision of the future
      - Cultural Studies
      - Interaction design is speculative design, informed by empirical understanding
  - Purpose of frameworks is not to reveal an existing reality as it is
    - Best to use as an aid the process of exploration and thinking creativly about a complex phenomenon
- FOR TUESDAY
  - Review McCarthy & Wright
    - The Four Threads of Experience (p80-94)
    - Dynamics of Experience (p64-66)