2007-02-06

  • Emotional Design
    • Morning beverages
      • Emotions behind making espresso
      • vs. instant coffee
      • why do we take milk or not in or coffee
      • Habit
      • Perception, etc.
    • Chapters
      • 1 Attractive Things Work Better
        • 3 levels of processing
          • visceral
          • behavioral
          • reflective
        • Focus and creativity
        • The prepared brain
        • Memory
        • Concepts of self
        • Personality
      • Part 2 Design in Practice
        • 3 Three Levels of Design
          • visceral - appearance
          • behavioral - usability
          • reflective design - self-image
        • Diesel
          • Intentionally disorienting
          • appealling to the less rational side
        • Design by Committee versus an individual
          • or, rather, artistic vision versus general (uninspired) perspective
          • Does emotion equate to genius or brilliance?
        • GroupMeter
          • Tools for Better Collaboration
          • not taking groups into account
        • Chapter 4
          • Fun and Games
          • Pleasure
          • Music and sound
          • Movies (immersion)
          • Games
          • Simulation
          • Incomplete connection of physical and mental experience
        • Chapter 5 People places and things
          • Scapegoating and externalization
          • Rationalization
            • Don't rationalize
          • Trust
            • SiteKey
            • How do we trust things that are online?
            • Do we approach people differently online?
          • Connection/distraction
          • technology as a design tool for social interaction
        • Chapter 6 Emotional Machines
          • Express?
          • Sense?
          • What about intelligence?
          • Eliza and other chatterbots
            • seem intelligent
            • actually quite dumb
          • Autotutor
            • automated agents
            • is tutoriing with an agent more or less effective than with a human?
            • kind of both
            • What happens if the tutor is mean vs. nice?
              • Mean tutor is more effective
            • University of Memphis
              • emotive computing
            • Phillip K. Dick's head
          • The Singularity
            • Ethics
            • An unavoidable meeting with technology?
            • Bil Joy, founder of Sun, says "No!"
  • Eckman
    • See how what Norman has done applies to Ekman's work
  • Assignment
    • Take some aspect of these readings and develop it further