Being a creative and the son of a psychologist mother and an opinionated father, its no wonder why I’m full of wonky psych theories and wacky philosophies. I strongly believe that there is much we still don’t fully understand about the human intellect. The future of psychology, much like the future of everything else these days, is a blurry haze made clearer every day by experts and amateurs alike.
In design school you learn that the best way to understand your user is to hang out with them for a day and observe. Typically we observe actions and understand emotion through commentary. We take pictures of their spaces and watch what users/ consumers do with their objects and how they interact with their surroundings. A new article posted on PSFK’s trend watching website is making me think that product designers, makers, and watchers are missing a huge piece of the puzzle - facial expression.
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It’s almost unfair to swoon over the future visions of human computer interaction without remembering its forefathers. It was in a small 1960’s research lab at the Stanford Research Institute that Douglas Engelbart and Bill English conceived of the computer mouse. A bulky device, by today’s standards, the mouse used two gear-wheels perpendicular to each other: the rotation of each wheel translated into motion along one axis. Decades of research and developments later, Engelbart is regarded as the revolutionary man who invented much of the information environment we live in today - the computer mouse, word processing, email, hypertext and so on.
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As I’ve been piecing this blog together, it struck me how the web and digital culture have become so much about customization and individuality. Or has it always been that way, and only recently can true amateurs grab a mouse and build themselves a custom website at Yola.com, blog their thoughts with Blogger or WordPress, Flickr their life, or craft unwearable sneakers at Gourmetkickscreator.com? At the heart of this, is interactivity.
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I'm almost finished reading my 4th work of Strossian fiction, as the acclaiming critics like to refer to them. Charles Stross, friend of Bruce Sterling, writer of fantastical visions of the future, has been inspiring me lately. You may or may not know this about me, but I'm infatuated with the the future. Reading about the future, seeing sketches of the future, designing the future, contemplating the societal, political, and moral debates that will take place in the future. It's all a large part of me; what I think about, and where I see myself being most valuable to those around me.
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