WALKIN’ BLASTERS

The History of Portable Social Music Players

UI in Daily Life

1. Wake up: iPhone’s alarm app

Basic Interactions 2. 80/20 Rule (Pareto principle)

15. Write-Up Prototypes

1. Memory Box (A prototype based on the initial concept)

Thoughts on Text-Based Interaction

• The author stresses that there are times when “textual, command-line interfaces are still better-suited than GUIs”. What kinds of problems, tasks, and situations lend themselves to text-based interaction?

The History of Conversational Interface

14. Midterm presentation

Concept

Basic Interactions 3. Abbe

The German physicist Ernst Abbe proposed this Abbe principle that measures things as close to their action as possible. It prevents error, and users will get a more accurate measurements. I found some good examples of using the Abbe principle in the media player applications, such…

Reading Reflection: Aesthetics Beyond Buttons

Aesthetics Beyond Buttons -Monumental Attractions: Toward An Archaeology of Public Media Interfaces by Erkki Huhtamo

- What did you learn from this reading?

Reading Reflection: Augmenting Human Intellect

Today, we are accustomed to using a personal computer. In 1962, however, the computer was not a tool for the personal use of an individual. It is surprising that Douglas C. Engelbart’s vision is what we are pursuing right now. When computers take…