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Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

May 23, 2011

Software as Discourse

The central perspective that underlies most of the articles featured on this blog could be summarised by the notion of ‘software as discourse’. I would like to give an overview of what this concept means to me from a theoretical point of view, on which assumptions it relies, and what it…

Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

May 12, 2011

A Short, Practical Example of User Experience and Interface Design for an Online Drink Ordering Service

I recently had the opportunity to write a first draft for a web application allowing office workers to order hot and cold drinks online. It’s far from…

Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

Apr 19, 2010

User Experience, Poststructuralism and Phenomenology: Exploring the User’s World

I think that it would be interesting to explore the theoretical ramification of an interpretation of the notion of user experience from a ‘radically’ poststructuralist point of view, that…

Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

Apr 13, 2010

What is Falsificationism?

Falsificationism could be understood as a solution to the problems entailed by the use of inductive reasoning for the construction of genuine scientific knowledge, which was introduced by Karl Popper in the middle of the twentieth century. Even though it has since been the subject…

Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

Apr 13, 2010

The Notion of Closure in the Social Sciences: an Overview

Although a polemical subject, the application of the concept of closed systems in the social sciences has been seen as a way to limit and even rule out the influence of certain variables in the study of social objects, which in…

Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

Apr 11, 2010

Outside-in Web Application Development: The advantages of building production-ready static html prototypes as interface mock-ups

I am currently working on a medium-size web development project for a public organisation: the project is…

Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

Apr 1, 2010

What is interaction design? A theoretical model

How can we sum up what we do? what are these systems we design? Below is a somewhat simplistic and schematic view of the problem, which may have some merits in that it provides a framework within which we can start to tackle the particular issues…

Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

Mar 16, 2010

Tweeting Bourdieu: Social software and social capital

I’ve been browsing the internet for a little while to see if anybody used Bourdieu’s notion of social capital as a framework for the analysis of social software such as Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn (the latter being particularly…

Pascal Belouin in Social Science & Software Design

Mar 16, 2010

A practical example of the application of Conversation Analytic concepts

The transcript presented below is a classic piece of data that have been used extensively by numerous conversation analysts to illustrate a rather large variety of CA concepts and notions. Below is a short…