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Research Request: Philosophy of Design
by Ken Friedman 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

Dear Colleagues, This is a research request for articles and books on philosophy of design. This includes articles and books in which philosophers discuss issues that can be applied to design process as well as articles and books in which designers and design researchers discuss or develop a philosophy of design. In this sense, I do not restrict the call to full-formed or comprehensive philosophies, but invite also propositions and heuristic probes. Please send suggestions and comments to me off-list at <ken.friedman(a)bi.no> I will compile all responses and post them to the list. The compilation will incorporate respoinses to an earlier research request posted to the list PhD-Design. Thank you. Ken Friedman Applicable definitions of the term, "philosophy" in "philosophy of design": Merriam-Webster's (1990: 883) defines philosophy as: "2 a : pursuit of wisdom b : a search for a general understanding of values and reality by chiefly speculative rather than observational means c : an analysis of the grounds of and concepts expressing fundamental beliefs 3 a : a system of philosophical concepts <Kantian philosophy> b : a theory underlying or regarding a sphere of activity or thought <the philosophy of cooking> <philosophy of science> 4 a : the most general beliefs, concepts, and attitudes of an individual or group <the hippie philosophy>." The Oxford English Dictionary (2002: Unpaged) defines the relevant aspects of the word philosophy the same way: "1. a. (In the original and widest sense.) The love, study, or pursuit of wisdom, or of knowledge of things and their causes, whether theoretical or practical." To speak of a "philosophy of" is to discuss "The study of the general principles of some particular branch of knowledge, experience, or activity." OED cites this usage example, "Expressions like 'philosophy of science', 'philosophy of history', 'philosophy of government', 'philosophy of law', 'philosophy of religion', and so forth creep into the language, indicating that after scientists, historians, statesmen, jurists, priests, and the rest have said all they have to say, there is still need of a special kind of knowledge to inform us what it is all about." Webster's International Dictionary (1913: 1077) defines philosophy as "1. Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws. When applied to any particular department of knowledge, philosophy denotes the general laws or principles under which all the subordinate phenomena or facts relating to that subject are comprehended." References Merriam-Webster, Inc. 1990. Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. Springfield, Massachusetts. OED. 2002. OED Online. Oxford English Dictionary. Ed. J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner. Second edition, 1989. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Oxford University Press. URL: http://dictionary.oed.com/ Date accessed: 2002 January 18, verified 2005 November 27. Webster's. 1913. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (G & C. Merriam Co., 1913, edited by Noah Porter). ARTFL (Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language). Chicago: Divisions of the Humanities, University of Chicago. URL: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/webster.form.html Date accessed: 2002 January 18, verified 2005 November 27. -- Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Institute for Communication, Culture, and Language Norwegian School of Management Design Research Center Denmark's Design School email: ken.friedman(a)bi.no

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Two open positions at Michigan State Dept of Telecommunication, Info Studies & Media
by Nicole Ellison 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

Hello all, My department at MSU is conducting two searches this year; please see below for the announcement. I hope to see some of your names in our applicant pool! Nicole ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Nicole Ellison, PhD Asst. Professor, Dept. of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media Michigan State University 517.432.1667 nellison(a)msu.edu *** The Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University invites applicants for two tenure system positions: . An assistant professor in the area of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Areas of focus could include social, behavioral, cultural, or economic and policy aspects of ICTs, or ICTs as they relate to human-computer interaction and interaction design, or group and/or organizational applications. Candidates who combine their research interests with a focus on the design or development of innovative ICT applications are especially encouraged to apply. . An open rank position in the area of telecommunications and health. Candidates are sought who focus on the role of ICTs in health care contexts, including such topics as telemedicine, online health applications, medical informatics, and new media and health communication. Candidates whose work has an international and/or developing country dimension are also encouraged to apply. Candidates are expected to develop a substantial program of research leading to peer reviewed publication, and the application of research for outreach activities is valued. Teaching opportunities will be at the undergraduate and graduate level, with the typical teaching load set at two courses per semester. Summer teaching appointments are often available. Efforts to obtain external funding for research and/or design activities is expected. Released time is available based on grant productivity. Requirements: A Ph.D. in a relevant discipline is required. ABDs will be considered. Evidence of scholarship and teaching ability is required. The Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University is a thriving place of scholarship, teaching, and public service. Its faculty has a national and international reputation and is actively involved in research projects funded by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and other major organizations. Founded in 1855, Michigan State University is situated in East Lansing, a pleasant university town just on the border of Lansing, the capital of Michigan. Our vast campus is known as one of the most beautiful in the nation and is home to over 40,000 students from 85 nations and about 4,000 faculty and staff. MSU is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution. Female and minority applicants are especially encouraged to apply. People with disabilities have the right to request and receive reasonable accommodation. Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and names and addresses of three references. Applications will be reviewed as they are received. Search closes when suitable candidates are hired. Positions are to begin in August 2006. Please mail the application to the search committee chair, Dr. Charles Steinfield, 409 CCAS, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. 48824-1212. On the web: http://tc.msu.edu

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facebook
by Jillana 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

I just received this from a student about the facebook at Northwestern University: Begin forwarded message: > > speaking of electronic forms of communication... I'm not sure if you > heard about it at all, but last weekend an RA in one of the > residential halls up north killed himself. I didn't know him, but I > found it really interesting how people responded to his death in the > online world. People were using his facebook profile as a site for > eulogizing him. The sentiments seemed sincere, but to me it seemed > trite. I wasn't sure how you felt about. A friend of mine who knew > him because she was an RA also made an interesting comment. She > mentioned to me over lunch that she and her other RA friends had > decided he was officially dead when he got signed off of AIM. I don't > mean to bring so dire a piece of news, but I wasn't sure how to react. > The FB brought me closer to him, and showed me explicitly who our > mutual friends were, but I never knew him. I'm not too affected by it > now, and I meant to email you about it earlier (they've since taken > his profile off of FB). > > > Thought it was an interesting use of online space, have you > encountered anything like that in your research? >

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an emerging social phenomenon on the web
by Derek McMillan 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

Groups of posters (who for all I know could have consisted of one person!) have hijacked usenet newsgroups for the purpose of posting irrelevant material in vast quantities and swamping the group. This was on top of all the spam. I have shifted to using moderated boards rather than usenet now because of this. I have never been personally attacked although my views have attracted vigorous criticisms - I particularly remember a heated exchange with fascists in Kent whose main issue was they hated people from Sussex! ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Model Search 2005 - Find the next catwalk superstars - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/hot/model-search/

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Internet use in Brazil
by Michel J. Menou 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

Results of a recent (2005) national survey for households and enterprises are available, in Portuguese, at http://www.nic.br/indicadores/ -- ================================================================= Dr. Michel J. Menou Consultant in ICT policies and Knowledge & Information Management Adviser of Somos@Telecentros board http://www.tele-centros.org Member of the founding steering committee of Telecenters of the Americas Partnership http://www.tele-centers.net/ B.P. 15 49350 Les Rosiers sur Loire, France Email: Michel.Menou(a)wanadoo.fr Phone: +33 (0)2 41511043 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/peoplemenou.php ================================================================== -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.8/183 - Release Date: 25/11/2005

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Cfp: HCI Issues in Computer Games (Special issue - Interacting with Computers Journal)
by Panayiotis Zaphiris 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

CALL FOR PAPERS INTERACTING WITH COMPUTERS JOURNAL Special Issue of Interacting with Computers on “HCI Issues in Computer Games” http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri/Announcements/games.html Guest Editors Panayiotis Zaphiris & CS Ang, Centre for HCI Design, City University London Introduction to special issue topic Computer Games are at the forefront of technological innovation and their popularity in research is also increasing. Their wide presence and use makes Computer Games a major factor affecting the way people socialize, learn and possibly work. Computer Games are also beginning to attract the attention of educators and education technologists. With this special issue of Interacting with Computers we wish to explore the relationship between Computer Games and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Are current HCI techniques and methodologies appropriate for designing Computer Games? Do we need new Computer Game focused HCI methods, theories and paradigms? What are the new challenges when it comes to evaluating Computer Games? This special issue of Interacting with Computers is inviting contributions from both the academic community and industry. It will focus on issues surrounding the analysis, design, development and evaluation of Computer Games and the issues surrounding them. Potential topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Design approaches and techniques suitable for Computer Games * Usability studies regarding Computer Games * Theoretical and/or pedagogical foundations for analysing Computer Games * Within-game and/or out-game activities and their HCI analysis * Computer Games and Online Communities * Social and Cultural Issues and Computer Games * Accessibility of Computer Games * Transfer of gaming metaphors to business applications "Interacting with Computers" is an interdisciplinary journal of Human-Computer Interaction, published by Elsevier. More information about this journal can be found at: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/525445/descrip… IwC special issues contain only 5 - 6 papers, each of no more than 10,000 words (so acceptance will be fairly selective). Submission: Papers should be submitted through the manuscript management system at http://ees.elsevier.com/iwc/ by the 10th of April 2006. The style standard is that of the American Psychological Association (APA), more details about which can be obtained from: http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPAFormatting.html Important dates: Full paper submission: 10th April 2006 (Monday) Response to authors: 8th May 2006 (Monday) Final version of papers: 5th June 2006 (Monday) Planned publication: September 2006 Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris (zaphiri(a)soi.city.ac.uk) and CS Ang Centre for HCI Design, City University London Guest Editors Special issue of Interacting with Computers on HCI Issues in Computer Games -- Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris Senior Lecturer Center for Human-Computer Interaction Design City University London, EC1V 0HB Tel: +44-(0)-20-7040-8168 Fax: +44-(0)-20-7040-8859 zaphiri(a)soi.city.ac.uk http://www.zaphiris.org/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.5/177 - Release Date: 21/11/2005

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Re: [Air-l] wiki tool suggestion?
by M.B.Gaved 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Hi Radhika I used pmwiki ( http://www.pmwiki.org/ )for a community informatics workshop - http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/ci2005/ it worked really well. You need to install it on a machine you have ftp access to that's running php and can webserve php pages, but you don't need mysql or similar. I found that I could set it up and tweak it quite a bit just knowing my way round html code. So probably in the middle between setting up a wikipedia style fully fledged wiki, and using a bit of space on somebody else's server. good luck! Mark Knowledge Media Institute The Open University Milton Keynes UK -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Radhika Gajjala Sent: Thu 24/11/2005 15:52 To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Cc: Subject: [Air-l] wiki tool suggestion? Can anyone suggest a free wiki tool (space) I can use for my classes next semester? thanks, r -- Radhika Gajjala Associate Professor School of Communication Studies Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403 http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik ; http://cyberdiva.typepad.com/teach/ http://www.cyberdiva.org _________ or to glance at multiple blogs http://www.cyberdiva.org/cyberdivalive.html _______________________________________________ The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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Re: [Air-l] wiki tool suggestion
by Alex Halavais 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

I second Jeremy's suggestion for peanutbutter wiki: http://pbwiki.com/ Seedwiki (http://www.seedwiki.com/) has been used in classes with some success. It has some nice features (discussion lists attatched to the pages, etc.) for a class. It is also free -- again within limits. - Alex On 11/24/05, Radhika Gajjala <radhika(a)cyberdiva.org> wrote: > thanks everyone for your suggestions - am checking them all out - but > Jeremy read my mind. > > r > > >I think Radhika might have been asking for something more like http:// > >pbwiki.com/ . There are quite a few of these out there, they > >require no installation, and you just have to watch their licensing. > >On Nov 24, 2005, at 11:49 AM, pwelsch(a)indiana.edu wrote: > > > >> > > > >Jeremy Hunsinger > >Center for Digital Discourse and Culture > >() ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail > >/\ - against microsoft attachments > > > >http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > >http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > >http://www.aoir.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- // // Alexander Halavais // Graduate Director of Informatics // University at Buffalo School of Informatics // http://alex.halavais.net //

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Re: [Air-l] wiki tool suggestion?
by Rowin Young 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

The free, open source VLE Moodle includes a wiki - http://moodle.org/. best wishes, rowin > -----Original Message----- > From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l- > bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Radhika Gajjala > Sent: 24 November 2005 15:52 > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-l] wiki tool suggestion? > > Can anyone suggest a free wiki tool (space) I can use for my classes > next semester? > > thanks, > r > -- > Radhika Gajjala > Associate Professor > School of Communication Studies > Bowling Green State University > Bowling Green, OH 43403 > > http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik ; http://cyberdiva.typepad.com/teach/ > > http://www.cyberdiva.org > _________ > > or to glance at multiple blogs > > http://www.cyberdiva.org/cyberdivalive.html > _______________________________________________ > The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/

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PhD in Organization Science
by Blanchard, Anita L 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Colleagues: The University of North Carolina Charlotte is starting a new Ph.D. program in Organizational Science. Pending final Board of Governors approval in January, the program will begin accepting students this Spring for enrollment in the Fall of 2006. I am writing to solicit your help to introduce the program to students on your campus as well as hopefully encourage those interested in doctoral training to apply. While more detailed information can be found at http://www.orgscience.uncc.edu, please allow me to highlight a few features of the program. * Organizational Science is an emergent interdisciplinary field of inquiry and practice focusing on individual and organizational health, well-being and effectiveness. It assumes that a thorough understanding of organizations requires an interdisciplinary focus that crosses levels of analysis and disciplines. * 20 faculty from I/O Psychology, Management, Organizational Communication, and Organizational Sociology support the program. Faculty include: Anita Blanchard, Kimberly Buch, David Gilmore, Eric Heggestad, Jo Ann Lee, Charlie Reeve, Steven Rogelberg, William Siegfried, Jennifer Welbourne, Chris Henle, Doug Pugh, Beth Rubin, Kelly Zellars, Yang Cao, Teresa Scheid, Wei Zhao, Shawn Long, Clifton Scott, John Kello, Scott Tonidandel * The specific topics of study in the Organizational Science program include, but are not limited to: selection, testing, training, performance management, workplace health, employee attitudes and satisfaction, team effectiveness, leadership, communication effectiveness, work/life issues, change management, and organizational structure and effectiveness. * The program is based on the science/practice model. Students will learn about and participate actively in quantitative and qualitative research; engage in practicum/internship opportunities; and take a wide range of methodological and content courses. First year recruitment is crucial for the program's success, and your help will be greatly appreciated. We have also attached a short poster which we hope you would consider displaying. We look forward to hearing from your interested students. Best regards, Steven Rogelberg, Ph.D. Director, Organizational Science sgrogelb(a)email.uncc.ed[Anita says...] u Anita L. Blanchard, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Psychology UNC Charlotte 9201 University City Blvd. Charlotte, NC 28223 Phone: 704.687.4847 email: alblanch(a)email.uncc.edu web: www.psych.uncc.edu/alblanch

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