Gravity7: Social Interaction Design SxD By Adrian Chan

Social Networks: Color by numbers or connect the dots?

I’m knee deep in research about online community, interaction tools, wireless communication and technology, social networks, you name it. Through all the theories, methodologies, and other design approaches I’ve found, one thing stands out. And

Time’s Arrow: A case for affective temporality?

I know this is supposed to be Einstein’s year. And being a Bergson fan myself, this should be an opportunity to learn a bit more about relativity. I had this thought last night though. It

Help, I’ve lost my iSight!

I had an interesting experience this evening co-presenting a class to students in S. Korea, online. Using a two-way video iChat teleconference, pre-recorded video clips, other pre-recorded clips (audio, video), and a handout. More on

Interaction design and subject-object relations

I’ve been getting back to reading sociology recently, and refreshing myself of on interaction design concepts at the same time. I need to be up on both just to finish the white paper i’ve been

MIT’s Reality Mining project hopes to add data from location and cel phone usage to social networking data. I wonder if they have encountered the Heisenberg principle yet in their studies. That is, the behavioral

“It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.” Marshall McLuhan, 1955 There are two ways to unpack this one. Heidegger and Goffman, both of whom