Tuesday, April 17, 2007

UCSD Maps Group (maps.ucsd.edu)

Here are the group members for the UCSD maps Group

Nick 925-457-3187
Anthony 626-227-5270
Chrissy 619-962-8085
Ken-949-280-7858

We will be focusing on revising the current maps.ucsd.edu website so that it is more clear for campus visitors as well as for faculty and students. Our group just started a blog:

ucsdmaps.blogspot.com

We plan on meeting at 4:30pm on Mondays at the Sun God Lounge. New groups members are welcome!

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Heath and Jon Hindmarsh

Heath and Jon Hindmarsh:
Configuring Action in Objects: From Mutual Space to Media Space
Two main topics of the article
  • How aspects of the material environment are rendered momentarily intelligible in and through interaction
  • The ways in which objects provide a resource for the recognition of the actions and activities of others.
How the material world is rendered meaningful

The scene is shaped, rendered intelligible, with regard to the resources provided by John and the sequentially appropriate activity, discovering and displaying the position of the train in question.

Discovering and seeing the object, or rather constituting one aspect of the physical environment in a particular way, engenders sequentially relevant actions by both John, Graham, and presumably at some later date, by the caller himself.

Objects as resource for the recognition of the actions and activities of others

The object and its perception is separated or fragmented from the very ways in which it is rendered noticeable, and thereby stands before the participants as an “objective order of social fact.”

The characterization may consist of a train number or something funny. The characterization informs the ways in which the environment is inspected by the coparticipant and how the particular object is discovered




Nomura and Hutchins

Nomura and Hutchins:
The multimodal production of common ground understandings

Iconic gesture-gesture that is representative of a specific concept
Environmentally coupled gesture-A gesture that takes on meaning as it relates to the environment where it is produced
Juxtaposition of meaning-combining multiple modes of communication to communicate an idea