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Fresh #phd – hot off the press!

jeremy — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:19:13 +0000

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YES! #phd off to the printer

jeremy — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:31:31 +0000

damn. this feels GREAT! and a little wracking.

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my office has been art-directed for my #phd exegesis photo shoot and submission preparation

jeremy — Mon, 07 May 2012 06:28:07 +0000

very close now! built a mini forensic wall on the back wall of my office to shoot images for my exegesis cover!

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@vome_project’s Lizzie Coles-Kemp talks privacy awareness & #research engagement this Friday @RMIT

jeremy — Wed, 02 May 2012 03:25:07 +0000

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The RMIT Digital Ethnography Research Centre has great pleasure in inviting you to:

Complex Patterns of Engagement: A Case Study in the Design of Socio-technical Approaches to Privacy Awareness

Abstract: Socio-technical approaches to research can be complex and require broad thinking about your topic. Investigating why people do what they do with technology and information is a socio-technical subject that is increasingly touching everyones research space. This talk presents the main outputs of a UK research project, Visualisation and Other Methods of Expression (VOME), which explored the
topic of privacy awareness. In describing the outputs, the talk features some of the methods of engagement used to connect with a wide range of communities during the design and evaluation of VOMEs interventions.

Speaker: Lizzie Coles-Kemp is a socio-technical researcher, interested in peoples information security and privacy practices. Coles-Kemp is affiliated with the Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London. She is interested in why people do what they do with information, how they protect it and why they protect it in the way that they do. Coles-Kemps two main areas of research are:

Organisational information security and privacy practices
The privacy and security implications of the information society

Coles-Kemps particular focus in each case is the interaction between humans and security and privacy technologies, how each influences the other. Coles-Kemp is primarily a qualitative researcher who is interested in research in different modalities. Current interdisciplinary collaborations include: social research extensions to formal evaluations of security ceremonies, the use of subcultural analysis in security policy design and the use of visualisations in interdisciplinary research.

Date: Friday, 4 May 2012
Time: 2pm to 4pm
Venue: RMIT University, City Campus, Building 9 Level 3 Room 08

RSVP: angelo (dot) tardio (at) rmit.edu.au

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Intro to UX elective for 2012: urban experiences

jeremy — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:48:41 +0000

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I’m planning my Introduction to UX for Communication Designers elective for next semester. Last year we looked at Literary Experiences

At the moment this years class is loosely framed around the following parameters:

introduce communication designers to a UX Strategy approach
use the City of Melbourne as our design context
use other themes to focus the context – eg ageing (2013 DRI design challenge theme), service culture, material and social sustainability

I’d love to hear from people who’ve used UX approaches to bring about positive changes in urban enviroments. If you’re in Melbourne, drop me a line and we can meet up to discuss!

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Decisions…!

jeremy — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:42:07 +0000

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Enaction: how I’m using it in the #phd

jeremy — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 02:35:58 +0000

Throughout my research, I have encountered theories and concepts that help me to understand and explain what interaction designers do. One set of theories, or field, that has influenced my thinking heavily in the latter half of this research is enaction, particularly the understanding of enaction that has emerged from the discourse around distributed cognition (Hutchins 2005, 2011, Clark and Chalmers 1998, Goodwin 1994). It is important to include here a brief overview of how I am engaging with the emerging filed of enaction, and in turn, how that applies to my research.

According to Hutchins,

“Enaction is the idea that organisms create their own experience thorough their actions. Organisms are not passive receivers of input from the environment, but are actors in the environment such that what they experience is shaped by how they act.”
(Hutchins 2011:428).

A view of the world framed by enaction acknowledges that perception is an act—something that people do—not a passive event that happens to them. Put this way, these contemporary cognitive theories resonate with my understandings of Dewey’s theories of “double barrelled” perception, and experience as the perception of a relationship between “doing and undergoing” (Dewey 1934).

Another consequence of this view of experience is that it gives agency to the things and people that are involved in the experience. For instance: to recognise or see something as a representation of something else—to apprehend metonymy—is to take part in a world that “does not consist of isolated objects, but of a system of enacted understandings” created by “specific culturally shaped perceptual processes” (Hutchins 2011:429-430). The actors in this world create what is perceived through their actions. Artifacts in the world perform something, because the people engaging with those artifacts “enact their meanings” (ibid p434).

This framing of enaction; that people create meaning through actions, and that these actions can ascribe performativity to artifacts, is a useful way to think about the activities that make up a design process, and the places where these processes are performed.

References

Clark, A., & Chalmers, D. (1998). The Extended Mind. Analysis, 58(1), 7–19. doi:10.1093/analys/58.1.7
Dewey, J. (1934). Art as Experience. New York: Minton, Balch & Co.
Goodwin, C. (1994). Professional Vision. American Anthropologist, 96(3), 606–633. doi:10.1525/aa.1994.96.3.02a00100
Hutchins, E. (2005). Material anchors for conceptual blends. Journal of Pragmatics, 37(10), 1555–1577. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2004.06.008
Hutchins, E. (2011). Enaction, Imagination and Insight. Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science (pp. 425–450). MIT Press.

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Time to break out the whiteboard markers!!!!! #phd

jeremy — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:05:34 +0000

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Fantastic post on #edu innovation. Remaking education in the image of our desires

jeremy — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:04:15 +0000

Wow. What an amazing round up of the eduprenuer space!

Remaking education in the image of our desires

The current generation of students will witness the remaking of our education system. Change is happening on many fronts: economic, technological, paradigmatic, social, and the natural cycles of change that occur in complex social/technical systems.

From:

http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2012/04/19/remaking-education-in-the-image-of-our-desires/

Via zite, of course

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more poor robots :[

jeremy — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:05:37 +0000

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