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Webgenres And -Styles As Socio-Cultural Indicators - An Experimental, Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Ida Engholm, Karen Lisa Salamon

Nordes Conference Series

The article presents a crossdisciplinary experiment of analysing web-design through a combination of the academic fields of design history and anthropology. The two authors merge aesthetic and socio-cultural aspects of new technology in a case-based discussion of the invention and use of contemporary web design. Indicating the potentials of an inter-disciplinary perspective in exploring design in general they draw on such parameters as user-differentiation and aesthetic positioning in a discussion of the role of genre and style in commercial formations on the web. Comparing examples from banking web-pages, they discuss certain aspects of cultural and esthetical conceptual representational systems that …

Architectural Project And Research - Specificity And Meta-Reflection, Katrine Lotz

Nordes Conference Series

How can it be made possible to comply with requests for objectivity and transparency in a research-project that contains investigations in, and development of, the researchers own, personal architectural project?

Six Decades – And Six Different Roles For The Industrial Designer., Anna Valtonen

Nordes Conference Series

In Finland the role of the industrial designer has changed with time. When the professional practice of industrial design first started to form, the designer was a creator whose work was likened to that of the artist. In the sixties designers started to work in closer co- operation with the industry, and the designer became a member of a team together with the engineer and the marketing representatives. In the seventies ergonomics were largely discussed and in the eighties the issue of Design Management became popular. In the nineties brand building and strategic design became the focus areas, and in …

If Everything Is Design, What Then Is A Designer?, Sara Ilstedt Hjelm

Nordes Conference Series

Design as an activity, a subject and an end product is expanding. Today we design everything from drugs to welfare systems. Society is an artefact where natural laws or science are no longer valid. But if everything is design and everyone designs what is then the particular competence of the practising professional in graphic, industrial or interior design? How can a design researcher contribute to the development of knowledge when it is argued that all research is design? The background for the discussion is pragmatic rather than ideological and is based in the authors own practice as a designer, researcher …

Educating Interaction Designers – How Are New Tools For Design Changing Learning Situations?, Annett Hillestad

Nordes Conference Series

Institutions for design education are creating new courses and study programs within the field of interaction design, in order to meet the challenges that arise with the changing role of the designer and the expansion of the object of design. The DesignEd project analyses how new tools for design work are changing learning situations and knowledge requirements in design education. In this article I will present the research topics that motivate the planned and ongoing work on the DesignEd project. Ethnographic case study research has been carried out in a class of master level interaction design students at the Oslo …

An Anthropological Move Towards Tangible Interaction Design, Mads Vedel Jensen

Nordes Conference Series

User interaction design has for many years been concerned with the skills required in operating computers and machines. For keyboard and mouse operated, screen-based user interfaces the main focus has been on the cognitive skills of humans. This article takes as a basic preamble that a shift from keyboards to tangible interaction design requires one to study the skills built through bodily movement. The emerging field of Anthropology of Movement can help in studying and understanding human movement. With inspiration from anthropology, philosophy and sociology, I have analyzed a short video sequence of a plant operator operating very tangible machinery. …

[Visklek] – Playing With Games, Kristina Lindström, Åsa Ståhl

Nordes Conference Series

We live in an anxious world where there is a lack of trust in the communication in public places. A common way forward is to design against crime and thereby attempt to create a feeling of safety. We have chosen a different approach: to create a non-anxious system that puts trust in the user and allows her to act and to communicate. The project [visklek] aims at creating a public place that allows for social interaction and an exchange of personal stories between strangers in Växjö, Sweden. Trough the use of a traditional children’s game, network technologies and other channels …

Domestication And Context: Studying Objectification In Print Media, Sara Routarinne

Nordes Conference Series

This article investigates into the domestication of communication technology through two cultural discourses, for one that of interior magazines and for two that of technology magazines. During domestication process technological items are objectified by ways in which they are brought to a physical environment and in ways in which they rearrange that environment (cf. Silverstone & al. 1992). The study is inspired by the domestication approach (Silverstone & Hirsch 1992, Silverstone 1994), while its methodological background is mainly based on critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 1995). The data consist of 55 magazine articles including 687 images. The findings indicate that the …

Products And Practices. Selected Concepts From Science And Technology Studies And From Social Theories Of Consumption And Practice, Elizabeth Shove, Matt Watson, Jack Ingram

Nordes Conference Series

Design researchers and practitioners are increasingly interested in how designed artefacts shape and are shaped by the contexts in which they are used. Despite a long if selective history of theoretical engagement between design and social science, there has yet to be an effective exchange of ideas on this subject in particular. In this article, we present a selection of concepts drawn from recent debates in science and technology studies and consumption theory. We introduce notions of acquisition; scripting; appropriation; assembly; normalisation and practice with the aim of initiating an inter- disciplinary conversation about how designed artefacts are configured and …

Don’T Destroy The Vitamins!– A Look At The “Tada” Microwave From Several Perspectives, Kyle Kilbourn

Nordes Conference Series

Design invariably creates artifacts. But do these prototypes, concepts or products constitute design research? By situating the newly created object with in socio-techno theories and explaining the design process of the artifact, this allows a designed object to mature into design research. A student designed concept known as the “Tada” microwave is presented and analyzed from the viewpoint of several “reading the object” theories. An understanding emerges to show how the device works in favor of the user through technological mediation and is respectful of social engagement, an important part of the cooking and dining experience. This research in to …

Teaching Design Research In The Studio, Ben Matthews, Jacob Buur

Nordes Conference Series

Design education is diversifying as it responds both to the needs of industry, and to the long-standing demands for design (as a discipline) to take its place as a legitimate academic field in its own right. In this article we describe an attempt to integrate design research into a studio-based design education by giving students the opportunity to analyse data collected during their own projects. In the three-week project, students were given short courses in research methods and analysis, and an initial research question to frame their inquiry. Each group of students produced a short research article as their deliverable …

We Are…Marshall, May 27, 2005, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

No abstract provided.

2005 Commencement Program, Whittier College

Commencement Programs

Whittier College's One Hundred Second Commencement, May 27, 2005

Commencement Address: Rueben Martinez, Owner and Founder of Libreria Martinez Books and Art Gallery

Tribal Workers' Knowledge And Perspectives On The Effectiveness Of The Indian Child Welfare Act, Linda L. Strong

Theses and Graduate Projects

This exploratory study surveyed tribal workers' perspectives on the effectiveness of the Indian Child Welfare Act. The purpose of this study was to gain front line perspectives from the people who work directly with the enforcement of the Indian Child Welfare Act. Do the various tribal workers involved with this study feel knowledgeable, trained, supported and most of all do they feel the Indian Child Welfare Act has been effective? If not, Why? What changes if any need to be made to ensure the effectiveness of the Indian Child Welfare Act? Questionnaires were mailed to tribal workers employed by eleven …

Oral History Interview With Dr. Jack Lane, Jack Lane, Wenxian Zhang

Oral Histories

Jack Constant Lane came to Rollins College in 1963 to teach history, with a specialization in American History. He is a notable author as well as an advocate of experimental education, helping to shape the curriculum at Rollins College.

Lane was born on April 19, 1932, in Austin Texas. He was the first member of his family to complete college. After serving three years during the Korean conflict, Lane earned a B.A. degree from Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia. From there, he went on to Emory University as well as to the University of Georgia, where he received his M.A. and …

James B. Crooks, James B. Crooks, Elinor A. Scheirer

Creating a University: UNF Oral History Project

UNF Oral History Project Interview of James B. Crooks by Elinor A. Scheirer on May 25, 2005

Four Illinois Wesleyan Students Accepted Into Teaching Corps, University Communications, Illinois Wesleyan University

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

The Web Of Law, Thomas A. Smith

University of San Diego Law and Economics Research Paper Series

Scientists and mathematicians in recent years have become intensely interested in the structure of networks. Networks turn out to be crucial to understanding everything from physics and biology, to economics and sociology. This article proposes that the science of networks has important contributions to make to the study of law as well. Legal scholars have yet to study, or even recognize as such, one of the largest, most accessible, and best documented human-created networks in existence. This is the centuries-old network of case law and other legal authorities into which lawyers, judges, and legal scholars routinely delve in order to …

Digital Democracy And Its Application To The International Arena – From “Deliberation” To “Decision”, Alexander Siedschlag

Publications

Apart from the discussion about computer-mediated change in community and domestic political affairs, there is a pending debate on general effects of internet- or “net”-based communication on international politics. The reference to international politics rather than international relations is a consciously chosen one – for this paper focuses on net effects on collective decision-making rather than international-society processes. IP/IR driven research on internet-induced political change does not very much link itself to the state of knowledge in internet-and-politics research. Rather, it commonly departs from sub-discipline specific concepts such as neorealist power analysis or post-international turbulence analysis (cf. Allison 2002).

Monitor Newsletter May 23, 2005, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

May 23 2005 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 029, Number 39, May 23, 2005, Grand Valley State University

2004-2005, Volume 29

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Volume Cxxii, Number 24, May 23, 2005, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

Commencement Program, 5-22-2005, John Carroll University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Commencement Program [Spring 2005], Clark University

Commencement Programs

Annual Commencement Program for graduation ceremonies at Clark University, held on May 22nd, 2005.

Commencement 2005 Taylor University, Taylor University

Commencement

The program of the 2005 Annual Commencement of Taylor University, May 21, 2005.

Commencement 2005

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 21, 2005

Bryant University Commencements

Commencement Exercises Program, May 21, 2005.

Volume 42, Number 37: May 20, 2005, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Part-Time University Faculty Members: The Relationship Between Environment And Satisfaction, Kyle Scafide

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the environment and the satisfaction of certain part-time university faculty members. A web-based, confidential questionnaire was made available to voluntary participants. The data collection occurred during the Fall semester of 2004. The survey provided data from 10 Louisiana universities in the top four Carnegies categories of Doctoral Extensive, Doctoral Intensive, and Masters I and II universities. Though a total of 610 faculty members participated in this study, the final sample included 542 participants. The research questions of this study focused on job status (part-time or full-time) and academic discipline …