robotariumrobots, robotics, domestic environments, domestic technologies, & designFunctionality as The Ability of A Person to Operate a Product- May 19, 2005 The ability of a person to operate a product is commonly addressed by the fields of ergonomics and human factors. Within these disciplines many have looked at the design and subsequent use of products to assess their effect on human behavior and to identify methods of improving their (both ...http://robotarium.com/weblog/index.php?p=34 It was immediately obviousin the 1970sand still- May 17, 2005 "It was immediately obvious in the first years in which I worked on the ELEA that in the design of certain gigantic instruments, as machines were then, or in the design of groups of machines which have a logical and operational relationship between each other, one ends up immediately designing ...http://robotarium.com/weblog/index.php?p=33 Dialectical Anti-Design- May 17, 2005 "The designer...is no longer the artists who helps us to make our homes beautiful, because they will never be beautiful, but the individual who moves on a dialectical as well as formal place and stimulates behavior patterns which will contribute to full awareness, which is the sole premise required for ...http://robotarium.com/weblog/index.php?p=32 Thoughts leading to thoughts on design as a social practice- May 12, 2005 some more draft thinking But the practice of design is in transformation and prior disciplinary definitions and distinctions are no longer the most appropriate way to characterize the breadth or depth of design as it appears today. As previously noted, the emergence of interaction design as a new design field is ...http://robotarium.com/weblog/index.php?p=30 You know you are a designer when- May 8, 2005 I was feeling stuck with my dissertation, just not able to write. So I changed the typeface. From Times New Roman (who can write their heart and soul using a default) to Meridien and everything was, well, just better.http://robotarium.com/weblog/index.php?p=29 |