Research Paper Overview Due Feb 17 (see assignments on Oncourse)
Recap of group project last Thursday
Re-Space-ing Place: “Place” and “Space” Ten Years On
– Media Space –
- EXAMPLE: Put a camera in an office.
- The camera
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read morePork and Beans – by: Weezer
South Park – Canada on Strike
Obama / Biden 2008 Presidential Campaign
Tila Tequila’s MySpace Rise to Stardom
Hotmail
The Dark Knight – “Why So Serious” Campaign
Blendtec – Will it Blend?
GMail
The Hush Puppy Comeback
Paul Revere’s Ride
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A Surprise Birthday Party for Erik Stolterman
- Find a suitable date
- Find out his birthday
- Virtual or in person?
- Guest List
- Find a location / space
- Find a Theme
- Swedish
- Outside (COLD) [There’s no place like
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read moreDistributed Cognition (DCog) – Hutchins 2000, Hollan, Hutchins, & Kirsh 2000
A unit of measurement to gauge observations they made of the conversations that took place among the crew of a flight simulator’s cockpit.
DCog sees cognitive processes…
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Human v. Human and Human v. Technology
The problem with a lot of systems in CSCW is that they model the process, not what is “actually” going on.
Ethnography
- Study of people in a natural environment
- Usually
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read moreCollaboration vs. Cooperation
Collaboration is more of a group effort, with a single purpose. Cooperation is more of an individual effort that ties in other people or resources.
Cooperative is more deliberate, requires more planning to get together. Collaboration can…
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