Here’s lookin’ @ you, kid.
August 18 11
The Craft of Research: an interview with Wayne C.Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams
August 12 11
Question: If you could give just one piece of advice to beginning researchers, what would it be?
Answer: We can’t agree on just one, but here are two:
- Find the question that you genuinely want to answer, regardless of what anyone else thinks.
- Don’t fall in love with your first answer; always hope that you’ll find a better one.
good advice from the authors of “The Craft of Research”… potentially useful for you all in this phase of the course 
Links between enaction and interactional approaches
August 10 11
I’m writing stuff for the phD and I’m reflecting on a project I worked on a while back with Reuben, where we were trying to crack the idea of ‘groups’ of elements in a presentation app.
As we worked on the solution, and it became more elaborate with implementation feeding back to experience and ixd etc, we put it aside to work on a seemingly unrelated concept.
Turns out, that the newer concept, views, was our solution to groups. And in reflection it was a great example of an interactional approach trumping an informational one. (see http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1094570 for more on that lovely theory)
What I also found interesting, both then and now, is that a physically engaging experience helped to surface this conceptual link between our work and the work of Boehner et al.
Enaction privileges an interactional perspective? Maybe. Worth looking at.
OMG great coffee: Costa Noosa Espresso at Sunshine
August 10 11
the secret life of design artifacts – current writing for the #phd
August 8 11
it is interesting to see how the things you make for a design workshop can often have a life of their own inside the company you were doing the design for.
Today I'm writing about the secret life of some design artifacts: how they helped our client engage support inside their company, and how they helped create a space for discussion around participatory methods.
