OpenDoor Idea: I got the idea from the dry erase doors set up in the new University center dorms. OpenDoor or OD would be a blend between the socializing aspect of Facebook and the pseudo-world type realities of Second-Life and Home for PlayStation. At the top level there would be a global view of …
Category: Student Work
Aug 28
The Future Freaks Me Out
Well, that was sunny. Concerns about privacy and privacy education naturally occupy some rather large real estate in my mind. I’ve been working with teenagers in formal and informal education for 10 years and it constantly astounds me how little they know about what should be on the internet and how to create positive internet …
Aug 28
Week 1 Reading Assignment
MAJOR STUDIO READING ASSIGNMENT: 1 While at face value, these reading samples are well out of each other’s topographical realms there is a certain flow that leads from the capitalization of social and technological identity to the natural flow of humanity. Humanity as defined by both the individual and the whole is a finite …
Aug 28
Week 1 Reading Assignment
The article “Natural User Interfaces Are Not Natural” brought to mind a lot of design concepts that , much to my dismay, I had never stopped to question. The use of the one-click, right-click, two-click, three-click options with a mouse seems practically innate to me at this point. Though, when really thinking about its operation, …
Aug 28
Social Network Redesign – Concept
Social Network Redesign: Project Live Grid Design Statement: The goal of this project is to create an all-new type of social network that is more real and humanistic than existing popular networking such as Facebook and Twitter. I hope people to move their body and use their hands a little bit more, instead of just …
Aug 28
Reading Response Week1
Always observing others behaviors is interesting and also important to rethink our interface design approach how people gesture when they eat food, read books, or watch television. Studying natural senses are hard because it is more like studying people’s inconscious system than conscious system. Also, there are culture differences which sometimes make confusion of understanding …
Aug 28
Facebook ReInvented
There are two main issues I aim to address in my facebook update. The first is the isolation that facebook users may feel when constantly engaging online instead of face to face with others. Not only are we spending less time with each other, but most users present a very polished and edited version of …
Aug 28
Reading Response-week1 class1
Natural User Interfaces Are Not Natural: From this article, I know that the gestural interface will plays an essential part of interaction technology, not because it has already shown the success in some game design, but also enables us to control devices in a more natural way. I mean, unlike using a mouse to clicking …
Aug 27
Reading Response: Week One class 1
To what degree or level will technology and mechanization be enough? To me it is never a truly disturbing concept that human will build something and ultimately destroy ourselves, but I’m rethinking it now. As mentioned in “The Short Run (Early 2000s)”, we do not live in a completely free marketplace, and governmental coercion could …
Aug 26
Group Two MFADT Network
Our group decided that the MFADT Network should reflect the culture and experience of the program. To that end, we want to be sure to devote space and resources to both academic and professional goals and the fun, communal aspects of the program. Each member accesses the network using their New School student ID number, …
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