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Week4 // responding to Chapter 4 Jan ChipChase

Valerie yeah

Wednesday, Nov 22, 2017 - 07:40:08 pm

@ vye001

Read and Respond: Ch 4 Jan Chipchase, You are what you carry. chipchase_ch4

Technology is scary. It is scaring me daily how reliant and how ‘smart’ it has become due to mankind’s reliability on it to do virtually everything for us. This constant growth in technology and the amount of things we ask it to do simply because we are ‘lazy’ makes Read more →

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week 3 // CH5 You are what you carry.

Valerie yeah

Wednesday, Nov 22, 2017 - 07:12:38 pm

@ vye001

In the TED talk, The Anthropology of Mobile Phones, Jan Chipchase talked about how in pretty much all cultures people carry three things and they were keys, money, and a cell phone. He mentioned how they all are tools used for survival and mentioned how so. Money being a source of getting food, keys giving people access to shelter as Read more →

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Week 2 // Jan ChipChase's Calibrating your own cultural compass

Valerie yeah

Wednesday, Nov 22, 2017 - 09:54:55 am

@ vye001

“There’s a temptation to think that a nuanced understanding of people and places can be found online” :

Isn’t that inevitable with the influx of the digital age? Despite this, Jan Chipchase argues that online documentation, comments or journals written by native people of a certain city or place would only be the ‘crumbs’ of the loaf. This is undoubtedly true Read more →

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Week 1 Response // Norman's UDD

Valerie yeah

Wednesday, Nov 22, 2017 - 04:20:57 am

@ vye001

Ps: As i am writing this after everything we have gone through this semester, i would be taking a different approach with this response to Donald Norman's chapter on the Design of Everyday things.

Designing well is not easy. Why? It is not just about the aesthetics of the object. It needs to sell well. It needs to function well. It Read more →

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[Response] Thoughtful Interaction Design

Ping

Monday, Nov 06, 2017 - 07:48:39 pm

@ Ping's

In this chapter, Löwgren introduced us to digital artefacts based on technical systems and how they influence our lives at not only individual but as well as social levels.  I feel that Löwgren pointed out something that is very worth keeping in mind of, and that is how even though the outcome of a professional design is the result of Read more →

Categories: Readings
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Interactive Environments & Experience Design

Xuan

Monday, Nov 06, 2017 - 06:02:39 pm

@ Through the Cracks of the Violin

Part 1

Prof Nohe’s works are very interesting and experimental. It piques the audience’s interest, and maintains this interest because of how much they can explore with the installation. The installation hinges mainly on the interactivity and how responsive it is to the audience’s interactions and choices of connecting different ports. This creates different effects and different “music”.

The interesting part comes Read more →

Categories: Assignments
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ADM-DiP GREEN Gantt Chart

Ping

Monday, Nov 06, 2017 - 03:57:10 pm

@ Ping's

Here is the Gantt chart for our group!

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ADM-DIP GREEN – Development Process Update

Su Hwee Lim

Thursday, Nov 02, 2017 - 04:57:28 pm

@ Hwee's

Before sending the form board to IEM side we also has done the marking and drilled the holes for the flowers base. The following are the plans for size of the form board for the two cluster of flowers .

Our current progress is IEM students has completed the wiring for the first cluster, but we Read more →

The team has made great progress!  Looking forward to hearing more about it today in class.

DIP project - Blue Group progress update

Kaixin

Wednesday, Nov 01, 2017 - 05:38:24 pm

@ Kaixin

We are currently figuring ways to render different kinds of light to have it closely present what we envision they will look like in the location of MBS. We are also exploring the placement of each sculpture in relation to one another, so they are not packed too tightly together, but also give users a visual connection.

Categories: Process
Tags: iLight | process
The visualization models look quite good Kaixin!  Looking forward to hearing more about your team's progress today.

ADM-DIP GREEN – Development Process Update

Su Hwee Lim

Monday, Oct 30, 2017 - 04:39:44 pm

@ Hwee's

Our aim for this week is to finish up the physical form of the flowers earlier so we can pass parts of the flowers to IEM people to do up wiring. We will also be start filming part of the video this weekend!

Considering the timeline, all 5 of us have meet up a few times over the week to make Read more →

I really enjoyed seeing how your team is working together to turn used plastic cups into a light installation!  Nice photos.  :-)