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		<title>Book Review: Design Expertise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 20:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: Design Expertise Author(s): Bryan Lawson, Kees Dorst ISBN: 1856176703 Read: May 2010 Summary Design Expertise aims at demystifying how regular people and students develop their design skills and thinking abilities to become proficient and professional designers. Lawson and Dorst build on theories, interviews and examples from educational experience in Architecture and Industrial Design (ID) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New book: Engineering Haptic Devices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found some quite interesting new titles this summer. 2009 seems to be a fruitful year for publications on haptics. In june I got the Human Haptic Perception, Basics and Applications volume edited by Martin Grunwald [link]. Today, I received my copy of the new book Engineering Haptic Devices edited by Thorsten A. Kern [link]. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading report: The laws of simplicity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: The Laws Of Simplicity Author(s): John Maeda ISBN: 9780262134729 Read: November 2008 Summary Interesting bits LAW 1: REDUCE The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. SHE: Shrink, Hide, Embody LAW 2: ORGANIZE Organization makes a system of many appear fewer. SLIP: Sort, Label, Integrate, Prioritize TAB example LAW 3: TIME Savings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading report: Shaping Things</title>
		<link>http://www.partly-cloudy.com/blog/2008/11/reading-report-shaping-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: Shaping Things Author(s): Bruce Sterling ISBN: 9780262693264 Read: November 2008 Summary Interesting bits Artifacts &#8211; Machines &#8211; Products &#8211; Gizmos &#8211; Spime Line of no Return: we cannot voluntarily return to a previous technoculture condition. Line of Empire: those who lack the means or capacity to evolve in the new technoculture are force into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading report: The Craftsman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: The Craftsman Author(s): Richard Sennett ISBN: 780300119091 Read: September 2008  Summary Interesting bits What is craftsmanship? Achieving quality, on doing good work. From Hannah Arendt&#8217;s The Human Condition Animal Laborens, the work as an end in itself. How? Animal Faber, &#8220;man as maker&#8221;, Why? Not so clear distinction as engagement and materialism is much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading report: The Design of Future Things</title>
		<link>http://www.partly-cloudy.com/blog/2008/01/reading-report-the-design-of-future-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: The Design of Future Things Author(s): Donald Norman ISBN: 0465002277 Read: January 2008 Summary   Interesting bits Natural interaction (a bit fuzzy) is what to aim for: like the symbiosis of horse riding. Funny dialog The Machine&#8217;s Point of View detailing how is it for machines to cope with us humans. We need augmentation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading report: Where the action is</title>
		<link>http://www.partly-cloudy.com/blog/2007/12/reading-report-where-the-action-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: Where the Action is, the Foundations of Embodied Interaction Author(s): Paul Dourish ISBN: 0262541785 Read: December 2007 Summary   Interesting bits Embodied interaction is inspired/based on two areas of research: tangible computing and social computing. Technological systems impose fixed barriers: between devices, applications, media, etc. Human respect barriers of different sorts: public/private, work/home, etc. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading report: Metaphors we live by</title>
		<link>http://www.partly-cloudy.com/blog/2007/02/reading-report-metaphors-we-live-by/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: Metaphors we live by Author(s): George Lakoff, Mark Johnson ISBN: 0226468011 Read: February 2008 Summary from [p. 272] -Metaphors are fundamentally conceptual in nature; metaphorical language is secondary. -Conceptual metaphors are grounded in everyday experience. -Abstract thought is largely, though not entirely, metaphorical. -Metaphorical thought is unavoidable, ubiquitous, and mostly unconscious. -Abstract concepts have [...]]]></description>
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