The Visual Communication and Interactive Media area, within the School of Design, are looking to expand the team with new staff members Link here
Metaphors of Human Thinking in HCI: Habit, Stream of Thought, Awareness, Utterance, and Knowing
I am about to use this methodology in a new brief with my students. Moving away from the Neilson/Nelson heuristic approach, I wish to use metaphor (as defined in this paper) as a medium for the students to assess their artefacts and processes, reflectively. Go here to read the paper.
the 5-stage model of e-valuation
Gilly Salmon’s five stages of evaluation of an interactive educational environment are as follows: 1. Access & Motivation. Exploring the technology and motivation building are key issues. The e-moderator helps meeting people and learn the environment. 2. Socialisation. Building on the first stage, this stage focuses on social processes and ‘community building’. Moderator does bridge [...]
e15 – Platform for creating 3D visualizations of web content.
E15 is an experimental architecture that places the power of presentation of web content into the hands of those that use it. Based on a dynamic, interactive OpenGL-based scripting engine, E15 exposes an entirely new face to web content, freely modifiable by each individual user. Visit the MIT site here
avatars, and how they operate
Taken from Phasing Grace – thanks.. The fact that we can separate the avatar from the behavior allows an exploration of the extent to which this reliance on visible information in the perception process is due to the lack of conscious control and the relative stability of the body. Perceivers know that the avatar is [...]
Azeroth makes you drop out of school…
…or so the lazy journalism at the Guardian would have us believe! I find this quite staggering – to say it is World of Warcraft is the cause of the post-adolescent drop-out rate. Nothing to do with the fact certain teenagers and young adults, have a preposition to addiction – and to be frank, an [...]
northumbria school of design on the second life grid
so here’s the srl : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Northumbria%20Design%20School/68/40/26 if you have second life installed you can view it in google maps, and then go there. my moniker in SL is Bigtam Aristocrat, so feel free to add me once you are there. again, any responses to the design, layout etc. well recieved by us here. I must [...]