Reading seminar/Project work

10-12: reading seminar: the shock of the old

Room 4618, Lindstedtsv 5, 6th floor, D-buildning

Preparations: read Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, Personal Dynamic Media (1977):
http://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-26-kay.pdf 

Read the text and think out three issues or questions based on the text that you would like to discuss with your peers. It could concern aspects or terminology that you do not understand, how it misses important aspects of current design problems, or anything else. This is one of the classic texts on interaction design, that has been influential to our field in many ways. But what can you, as an interaction designer in year 2013 possibly learn from a text published in 1977?

If you have time, please take a moment also to try and find out (or remember - if you are old enough!) what the state-of-the-art in computing technology and interaction design was like in 1977.

This will be the topic for discussion during the first 45 minutes, after that we will discuss each of your project in smaller groups, based on what we learnt during the monday presentations.

Task of the week:

The historical context of your design domain.

No design happens without a historical and technical context.

What is the historical context of your domain? What traditions exist?

Look up current and past tools used in your domain.