Life through Googl’s eyes

The description of youtube says this: “Using billions of searches, Google has prototyped an anonymous profile of its users.This reflects the fears, inquiries, preoccupations, obsessions and fixations of the human being at a certain age and our evolution through life”

For me it is also very thought-provoking. I would argue this also reflects our conception about the social norm of sexuality. When we are expected to have sex or a sexual partner for the first time, and when we are supposed to get pregnant.

Citation/Paper writing question

I have some things I want to share in my paper that are derived from a personal experience of mine. I test drove a new BMW recently with the technology I am writing about. Does anyone have advice about how to discuss my personal experience?

Worries about my broken english..

I feel like my writing is difficult to be understood.. because of several reasons.
1. I cannot communicate my idea clearly, so I just typed rough idea and plan to revise it later
2. Some idea really close to each other, and I cannot define how they different, so it looks like I have duplicated idea in the paper.
I tried to explain it, but because of my broken english, it takes long paragraph and seems lost the connection from the core idea.
3. My grammar and vocabulary seems doesn’t make sense, but I don’t know how to write it in the correct way. I asked for help from American friends, but I understand they cannot help me proof the whole paper.
Any suggestion is appreciate..

Final Paper

Here is how I’m planning on outlining my paper.  These would potentially also be my section titles.  Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Audience -> IxD practitioners, specifically those designing personal informatics tools

• Introduction
• Introduce Personal Informatics
• Discuss related work in Personal Informatics
  • including discussion about behavioral change.
  • Introduce IxD criticism
  • Introduce Nike+ Fuelband system
  • Critique Nike+ Fuelband system
  • Implications for designing better existing and future 24/7 tracking device systems
  • Conclusion.

 

Does this make sense?

One of the issues I run into when writing about journalism is how disorganized I feel when trying to  nail down a concrete argument, especially when talking about some of the issues the profession is currently faction. In some regards, this is due to the fact that journalism researchers and practitioners take very different views towards the “state” of journalism. Some stand outside media conglomerates, waving cardboard signs bearing prophesies of doom. Others merely glance up from their prose with bemused looks and muse that the “field is changing” before going back to whatever it is they were doing, waiting for the next piece of technology to come along that will supposedly “save the industry”. Anyways, the following is my argument for my paper, and if any of you provide critique I would be most grateful (and happy to reciprocate)!

I’ll provide a brief background – journalism practices and research have traditionally leaned towards technological determinism, believing that new devices will resurrect the profession. This has led to a de-emphasis on the experience of the content produced, which has largely been packaged onto new devices with “print bias”, which I extrapolate as the “experience of reading content in print form”. 

 

Argument:

Specifically, I am interested in helping move journalism past its continued reliance on technological determinism and the page paradigm as a rationale for content generation and instead propose a new way forward by focusing upon the user experience and device ecology in which journalistic content is consumed. To do so requires a disassociation with the navel gazing rhetoric of current journalism research and a look towards HCI as an outside cognate discipline which can provide a new lens from which researchers and practitioners can start to engage with a more holistic understanding of what constitutes a “journalism experience” that takes into account not only the devices upon which it is consumed, but the overall user experience of content produced. In doing so, it is my ultimate assumption that such a reframing will ultimately benefit the industry as a whole and lead towards wider viewership and adoption of mainstream media applications. It is the ancillary goal of this paper to bring the fields of journalism and HCI closer together, so that both may benefit from a mutual exchange of ideas and advancement of epistemologies. My contribution in this paper will cover the following outcomes:

 

Outcomes of this paper:

1. An introduction of current journalism research and its limitations in understanding the relationship between device ecology and user experience.
2.  A proposal for journalist practitioners and researchers to turn towards HCI as a discipline which can help push journalism past its traditionally technologically deterministic rhetoric and provide a lens from which user experience and device ecology can be addressed.
3. A practical example of how HCI literature can critique journalism’s current understanding and implementation of user experience and device ecology through the framework of interaction criticism.  
4. Benefits to the respective fields of HCI and journalism from a continued relationship with one another

Mind Mapping: How it helped me.

We had a conversation about Mind Maps in class. We recently learnt using Mind Maps in Shaowen’s class and I thought of giving it a try for the Interaction Culture Paper.

We were talking about loosing a forest for a tree in the class. The Mind Mapping technique helped me overcome that problem and generate ideas.

I suggest that you should do this when you are alone with no disturbances and when you mindset is of thinking of the paper as a whole.

I wrote the topic, which is my argument in the center.

All the branches I made were how I was going to address the argument. the main topics. Note that these branches may or may not be the sections in your case. These are just the big ideas you will talk about supporting your claim.

The sub-branches are like things I need to talk about when I am explaining the idea in the branch.

I usually did 4 hour session while writing the paper and in every session, I wrote about a branch.

Hope it helps you generate content…!!!

my short blurb to help me not get lost

does this make sense? do i need more clarity within this paragraph?

“i want to explore why we as individuals feel pressured to give our immediate attention to our technologies. i’m going to do this by doing an in depth analysis of three different technologies: Facebook, an email application called Mailbox, and Pinterest. i will examine the types of behaviors these technologies encourage through the lens of an everyday user…”

I’m not sure what I want to offer from this analysis. does anyone have any suggestions?

Music Access Model

What I decided to write about was the music Access Model.  Basically there are two models in the music industry right now, music ownership and the Access Model. Ownership can be seen in the sale of CDs, vinyl, Mp3s, etc. The idea to accumulate commodified music. While the Access Model has a history in radio, and now in music streaming services (such as Spotify).

I’m curious (and this won’t end up in the paper) whether you buy music or whether you stream it. If you stream it, what service do you use? Spotify? Rdio? Pandora?

If you do stream music, what aspects of streaming music appeals to you as a consumer?

Design Education Paper Hacks

So when Jeff explained to me that we need to have a short summary that we always look back to in order to support and contribute to your main point, I immediately thought back to IDP when we learned about developing a core. When we developed a core to our design, we were learning to design only for that core and not for everything else that can come to mind as we continue down the rabbit hole of design. I am now going to attempt to apply my design education more wholly towards the sculpting of this paper since I am a better experience designer than I am a paper writer. My theory is that there is a large amount of overlap.

Wings X Macklemore | Sneaker Influence

I wanted to share this video so that I can show you all the influence sneakers have on people. It’s not just a hobby, it’s some people’s way of life. Some people start from a you g age. Some continue this way of life, others grow out of it because they start to realize that they are just sneakers.

After watching this video I thought to myself that I should just leave my love for sneakers behind, but then I realized I cannot do it just yet. It’s something about sneakers that draws me in. The color way, the style, the comfort, etc.

Watch the video and see a little of sneaker impact yourself…