How to Do Things With Words

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/201/4359/899.2.full.pdf

Phenomenology of perception.

From the Publisher: 
A Question of Identity 
Life on the Screen is a fascinating and wide-ranging investigation of the impact of computers and networking on society, peoples' perceptions of themselves, and the individual's relationship to machines. Sherry Turkle, a Professor of the Sociology of Science at MIT and a licensed psychologist, uses Internet MUDs (multi-user domains, or in older gaming parlance multi-user dungeons) as a launching pad for explorations of software design, user interfaces, simulation, artificial intelligence, artificial life, agents, "bots," virtual reality, and "the on-line way of life." 
Turkle's discussion of postmodernism is particularly enlightening. She shows how postmodern concepts in art, architecture, and ethics are related to concrete topics much closer to home, for example AI research (Minsky's "Society of Mind") and even MUDs (exemplified by students with X-window terminals who are doing homework in one window and simultaneously playing out several different roles in the same MUD in other windows). Those of you who have (like me) been turned off by the shallow, pretentious, meaningless paintings and sculptures that litter our museums of modern art may have a different perspective after hearing what Turkle has to say. 
This is a psychoanalytical book, not a technical one. However, software developers and engineers will find it highly accessible because of the depth of the author's technical understanding and credibility. Unlike most other authors in this genre, Turkle does not constantly jar the technically-literate reader with blatant errors or bogus assertions about how things work. Although I personally don't have time or patience for MUDs,view most of AI as snake-oil, and abhor postmodern architecture, I thought the time spent reading this book was an extremely good investment.

스크린 위의 삶 = Life on the screen : identity in the age of the internet

How to ... be a reflective practitioner.

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The Practice Of Everyday Life

In this position paper we outline the opportunities and challenges of pure asynchronous video messaging as an everyday utility. We recruited 53 users to try Skype Qik ‘in the wild’ for two weeks from its launch in October 2014. We found users orienting to an organizational principle that we term ‘Me For You’, a self-conscious yet creative orientation that allowed users to transform features of their everyday affairs into show-about-ables that can be subject to and warrant the interrogative gaze of a Qik recipient. We found that such acts implied a reciprocity that was valuable in some special contexts, while at other times proving dissonant with assumptions about mundane communicative practices between particular parties. To warrant another’s gaze requires artfulness, but in some relationships one might not want to demand that artfulness in return. We argue that richness is not a matter of mode but of perceived control, within which the morality of gaze represents an ongoing challenge for designing everyday telepresence.

Me For You’: Lessons About Everyday Video Messaging From Skype Qik

This paper enquires into the nature of the act of communication between two or more persons. It proposes that such acts are best conceived of as moral, as related to the performative consequences of the acts in question. Given this, the paper then asks what applicability phrases like ‘overload’ might have, and whether quantitative techniques have a role other than as a heuristic in understanding and designing tools for the control of communication overload between people.

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The Metaphysics of Communications Overload

‘HCI in the wild’ was meant to be a call to get HCI investigations out of the lab into the melee of real life. This is of course a commendable suggestion, though begs questions about what kinds of methods and topics are suited for exploring in this melee as against in the lab. Claims by some experimentalists that they seek ecological validity in lab studies are largely missing the point since the thing that studies in the wild seek are essentially only those things that occur outside the lab—and hence are not things that can be replicated, modelled, or emulated. But in any case, some of those who have taken up the call for studies in the wild have taken this rather too literally—they have sought wild places, places where HCI researchers have not gone before. Needless to say this being HCI, the places in question are not often that wild, woods near Brighton, for example, street life in south Cambridge. What they ignore as they venture into these settings is the melee of office life, the place where the bulk of computer systems are located and the place in which, oddly enough, increasingly little HCI research gets done.

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HCI in the Wild Mêlée of Office Life—Explorations in Breaching the PC Data Store

An information processing system, comprising: a database with stored data items (204-214; Fig.2)relating to activities, such as aircraft flights, a number of said data items (204-214; Fig.2) being represented on a respective portion (17; 202, Fig. 2)of a paper strip (4) corresponding to one of flights, a processor (9), coupled (10) to the database, for updating one or more of said data items (204-214; Fig.2) in response to a user operation. The system further includes a plurality of workstations, each workstation comprising a rack (2) for removably mounting the strips (4) in an array, a camera (6) and a projector (8) focussed on the array, each camera (6) and projector (8) being coupled to the processor (9). The user operations include marking a sign or mark (16) on a strip (4), the processor (9) being programmed for recognising the sign, and optionally causing the display of a sign or mark (18) on the corresponding strip of a user at another workstation.

A document processing and data distribution system

This paper analyzes the I/O and network behavior of a large class of home, personal and enterprise applications. Through user studies and measurements, we find that users and application developers increasingly have to deal with a de facto distributed system of specialized storage containers/file systems, each exposing complex data structures, and each having different naming and metadata conventions, caching and prefetching strategies and transactional properties. Two broad dichotomies emerge from this. First, there is tension between the traditional local file system and cloud storage containers. Local file systems have high performance, but they lack support for rich data structures, like graphs, that other storage containers provide. Second, distinct cloud storage containers provide different operational semantics and data structures. Transferring data between these containers is often lossy leading to added data management complexity for users and developers. We believe our analysis directly impacts the way users understand their data, designers build and evaluate the success of future storage systems and application developers program to APIs provided by the storage systems.

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Richard Harper

Papers

Me For You’: Lessons About Everyday Video Messaging From Skype Qik

The Metaphysics of Communications Overload

HCI in the Wild Mêlée of Office Life—Explorations in Breaching the PC Data Store

A document processing and data distribution system

Beyond file systems: understanding the nature of places where people store their data