“Rather than trying to stay on top of things, I am trying to get to the bottom of things.” – Donald Knuth :: Walking away from the hypergrid (via Twitter)
Saturday, April 4th, 2009Augmented Cognition
Friday, April 18th, 2008“Limitations in human cognition are due to intrinsic restrictions in the number of mental tasks that a person can execute at one time, and this capacity itself may fluctuate from moment to moment depending on a host of factors including mental fatigue, novelty, boredom and stress. As computational interfaces have become more prevalent in society and increasingly complex with regard to the volume and type of information presented, researchers have investigated novel ways to detect these bottlenecks and have devised and continue to determine strategies to aid users and improve their performance by effectively accommodating capabilities and limitations in human information processing and decision making.”
“Everything is Miscellaneous” – Weinberger
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Google Tech Talks May 10, 2007ABSTRACT
“David Weinberger’s new book covers the breakdown of the established order of ordering. He explains how methods of categorization designed for physical objects fail when we can instead put things in multiple categoreis at once, and search them in many ways. This is no dry book on taxonomy, but has the insight and wit you’d expect from the author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, Small Pieces Loosely Joined, and a former writer for Woody Allen.” [link]
When we journal in private, with whom do we converse but ourselves?
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008When we journal in private, with whom do we converse but ourselves?
Artifact Memory
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Some people view the most important moments of their lives through the aperture of a video camera. Others bookmark their engagement with the world with a flash and a smile upon a still image.
Further, the physical manifestation of note-taking assumes the laborous quality of the physical act of a pen across a page, given its technological alternatives.
This process of creating artifacts for the future has fueled a great deal of curiousity for me.
How will ubiquitous computing augment our ability to store and share personally intimate memories? As the mechanisms for recording our experiences in data streams are coming to life, will a photograph remain as personally moving as a screenshot, an immersive 3d visualization, or a predictive algorhythm for new kinds of temporal interaction?
Inspired by:
- a customer hunting for a plastic accordion photo holder for her wallet
- Infrastructure for Virtual Counterparts of Real World Objects : link
- Avatar Afterlife : link.
