Notes on papers, books and blogs about Cognitive Ergonomics, HCI, philosophy of design and everything interesting
An interesting article in the relatively new journal “Artefact”. It examines the evolution of matching tile games (e.g. Bejeweled, Zookeeper etc.).
When refering to his own experiences in designing a similar game, Juul notes how players from different backgrounds appropriated the game in different ways:
During testing, it became clear that players understood the game very differently […]
A recent post in pasta and vinegar, touches the subject of delegation, namely the fact that pretty much most solutions to a problem include delegating it to a human or machine. He cites a very interesting article by Latour which points out that in the act of delegation, we equip artefacts not only with the […]
My brother pointed me to the works of Ezio Manzini, an industrial designer who is concerned with sustainability. Unlike many other thinkers on the subject, he possesses a deep systemic view:
The transition towards sustainability will effect every dimension of the socio-technical system in which we live (the physical one, as material and energy flows, the […]
Is an object used as a tool, an artefact? That’s how the discussion begins in Pavlos Lefas’ excellent article on the Greek philosophical magazine “Cogito” (Lefas, 2006). Is the first bone used a club to hit an enemy an artefact? One way is to follow Aristotle and claim that it is not an artefact, as […]
