So make them.
Make them as quickly as possible.
Learn to learn from them quickly.
Mistakes will accelerate learning when embraced.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
How to make mistakes
There is room for mistakes.
So make them.
Make them as quickly as possible.
Learn to learn from them quickly.
Mistakes will accelerate learning when embraced.
So make them.
Make them as quickly as possible.
Learn to learn from them quickly.
Mistakes will accelerate learning when embraced.
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Do what hope does
Use what hope knows.
To see what hope sees.
And do what hope does
Become what hope hopes for.
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Checkle
Checkle: checkpoint circle
1) A rotating circle of tasks per role I have.
2) Drop. Glance. Cloud. Overview. Admin power.
3) A project of Ben's
1) A rotating circle of tasks per role I have.
2) Drop. Glance. Cloud. Overview. Admin power.
3) A project of Ben's
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
What displays are assuming
"What would smart glasses look like without a display?"
A display assumes two things about me:
Assumption #1: User always wants to see visually what the designer thought I would want to see at this point.
Assumption #2: Assumption #1 is important enough to allocate energy exertion on the battery.
While these assumptions are not surprising, our outlining these two assumptions prepares us to inform a critical discussion on the role of displays in what I, the user, really want to accomplish with my computers in the fabric of my daily life.
I. Foreword:
My ocean of displays in which I live has prompted this perspective -- especially with the onset of google glass.
II. Introduction:
I have found myself persistently wanting to interact with my computing devices sans display:
From writing with a toothpick (invisibly, but digitally recorded) on the back of my phone, tapping morse code in my fingers on the go, to navigating familiar apps via the computer in google glass by only touch and sound feedback.
I wish I could turn off the google glass display while I use it -- though useful at times, is many times an annoyance and unwelcome distraction -- as I am not in need of what it displays.
Especially when I get amply audio cues from what I am doing. Voice input, multi-gesture touch-input (the three-inch touch interface that comprises the right side of google glass), acceleratometer input, and eye-tracking input, coupled with audio feedback (which can also read out loud to me what is displayed) , gives me plenty interactivity with google glass apps sans the display.
The display can be understood in regard to many apps as a training wheel (with exceptions).
Essential at first, but then, often - superfluous.
If a device is truly wearable and can thread its way a larger productive pattern of human behavior, we might consider rolling back a few notches on the default assumption that the display should be always active while actively navigating app's functions.
I'd like to 'see' more capabilities be manipulated & navigated without the need for constant multi-sensory (audio + visual) attention.
III. Argument:
It appears that displays carry assumptions about me, the user. And by coming into conflict with those assumptions I have found them.
Now because displays are used to portray views that the designer designed, I will now refer to displays as views.
A view assumes two things about me:
Assumption #1: User always wants to see visually what the designer thought I would want to see at this point.
Assumption #2: Assumption #1 is important enough to allocate energy exertion on the battery.
While these assumptions are not surprising, our outlining these two assumptions prepares us to inform a critical discussion on the role of displays in what I, the user, really want to accomplish with my computers in the fabric of my daily life.
This prompts the question:
What would google glass be like without the display?
A display assumes two things about me:
Assumption #1: User always wants to see visually what the designer thought I would want to see at this point.
Assumption #2: Assumption #1 is important enough to allocate energy exertion on the battery.
While these assumptions are not surprising, our outlining these two assumptions prepares us to inform a critical discussion on the role of displays in what I, the user, really want to accomplish with my computers in the fabric of my daily life.
I. Foreword:
My ocean of displays in which I live has prompted this perspective -- especially with the onset of google glass.
II. Introduction:
I have found myself persistently wanting to interact with my computing devices sans display:
From writing with a toothpick (invisibly, but digitally recorded) on the back of my phone, tapping morse code in my fingers on the go, to navigating familiar apps via the computer in google glass by only touch and sound feedback.
I wish I could turn off the google glass display while I use it -- though useful at times, is many times an annoyance and unwelcome distraction -- as I am not in need of what it displays.
Especially when I get amply audio cues from what I am doing. Voice input, multi-gesture touch-input (the three-inch touch interface that comprises the right side of google glass), acceleratometer input, and eye-tracking input, coupled with audio feedback (which can also read out loud to me what is displayed) , gives me plenty interactivity with google glass apps sans the display.
The display can be understood in regard to many apps as a training wheel (with exceptions).
Essential at first, but then, often - superfluous.
If a device is truly wearable and can thread its way a larger productive pattern of human behavior, we might consider rolling back a few notches on the default assumption that the display should be always active while actively navigating app's functions.
I'd like to 'see' more capabilities be manipulated & navigated without the need for constant multi-sensory (audio + visual) attention.
III. Argument:
It appears that displays carry assumptions about me, the user. And by coming into conflict with those assumptions I have found them.
Now because displays are used to portray views that the designer designed, I will now refer to displays as views.
A view assumes two things about me:
Assumption #1: User always wants to see visually what the designer thought I would want to see at this point.
Assumption #2: Assumption #1 is important enough to allocate energy exertion on the battery.
While these assumptions are not surprising, our outlining these two assumptions prepares us to inform a critical discussion on the role of displays in what I, the user, really want to accomplish with my computers in the fabric of my daily life.
This prompts the question:
What would google glass be like without the display?
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
"Keeping" takes on lofty ambition to simplify support.
Keeping.com aims to simplify support from your e-mail inbox. I'd like to see that.
Do you think they can do it? http://www.keeping.com/ @keepingcom
Do you think they can do it? http://www.keeping.com/ @keepingcom
Brusell Communications has built an alternative to hand/voice input to computers: Lipit
A step in the right direction. Props to Brusell Communications' Lipit for exploring an alternative to hand/voice input to interface with computers!
Who it matters to:
1) Dental Hygienists (and their patients)
2) People who experience loss of their motor capacities through Multiple Sclerosis, etc.
3) Life-long learners*
*I would like to associate Lipit with the world of online education opportunities (www.coursera.org) that can be enabled to people through alternative computing interfaces. This speaks to me because the type of thinking that Lipit's team embodies is the kind of thinking that can empower people to improve their own circumstances.
See what they have come up with:
http://www.lipit.net
Who it matters to:
1) Dental Hygienists (and their patients)
2) People who experience loss of their motor capacities through Multiple Sclerosis, etc.
3) Life-long learners*
*I would like to associate Lipit with the world of online education opportunities (www.coursera.org) that can be enabled to people through alternative computing interfaces. This speaks to me because the type of thinking that Lipit's team embodies is the kind of thinking that can empower people to improve their own circumstances.
See what they have come up with:
http://www.lipit.net
That's a Great Question: What does it matter?
What I learned from Erik Perjons, at Stockholm University of Computer & System Sciences.
It is a moot thing to explore an experiment. It matters if that experiment has a purposeful application which warrants its execution.
Consider Scenario:
Here is a great question: Great.
"Does it matter?"
Yes.
"To whom?"
Group A
"Why?"
X, Y, and Z
"Explain in detail?'
R, S, T
Erik and I were discussing my proposed bachelor thesis question.
He impressed me that any question however fascinating or unexplored is useless to answer outside of a motivating context that makes it meaningful.
Erik Perjons taught my favorite course, "Knowledge Management"
Nudges for hacks I got while writing this blog.
GoogleShift - parse your text for images/links from web on command; a keyboard-button; a command; a plug-in; Purpose: workflow enhancement to add images for your proper noun (ex. University of Mannheim)
SocialShift - GoogleShift for social media profiles esp. Twitter. (ex. Professor Nicolo Venga)
It is a moot thing to explore an experiment. It matters if that experiment has a purposeful application which warrants its execution.
Consider Scenario:
Here is a great question: Great.
"Does it matter?"
Yes.
"To whom?"
Group A
"Why?"
X, Y, and Z
"Explain in detail?'
R, S, T
Erik and I were discussing my proposed bachelor thesis question.
He impressed me that any question however fascinating or unexplored is useless to answer outside of a motivating context that makes it meaningful.
Erik Perjons taught my favorite course, "Knowledge Management"
Nudges for hacks I got while writing this blog.
GoogleShift - parse your text for images/links from web on command; a keyboard-button; a command; a plug-in; Purpose: workflow enhancement to add images for your proper noun (ex. University of Mannheim)
SocialShift - GoogleShift for social media profiles esp. Twitter. (ex. Professor Nicolo Venga)
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