Context Raleigh, NC, particularly the downtown area, is full of historical landmarks. However, the North Carolina Museum of History (NCMH) currently presents North Carolina history embodied in one, centralized locus, the NCMH building, and does not branch out into the...

                    When an individual first enters an environment (whether digital or natural) the individual engages in a three part process which leads towards their cognitive understanding of that space. First, the individual...

Click here for Essay Diagram Over the course of several centuries, people finely-tuned the machine of the codex, contributing to its development both as creators and users. As we enter into...

North Carolina Museum of History Augmented Reality Scavenger Hunt Mostkoff , Storment, Tumash, Whitcomb Context Raleigh, NC, particularly the downtown area, is full of historical landmarks. However, the North Carolina Museum of History (NCMH) currently presents North Carolina history embodied...

Super Mario Bros. from the first person perspective.  

Our system can be accessed at any point in the writing process. All three essays are visible from the beginning, so readers can choose where to start. There are three columns for the three essays. Each column is arranged by theme, grouping all of the embodiment essays together, followed by...

The following are the results from the exercise during class (week 11) Challenge: Propose designed conditions that would make 4-6 year olds enjoy brushing their teeth. Context: Domain- Bathrooms/Sinks, Health Info Env- Information acquired through Family; Dentist; Toothpaste; Pharmacy Current...

Proposal: Context: To develop an project to increase interest and support for the North Carolina Museum of History that utilizes strategies involving embodiment, networking, and systems theory. Project: An augmented reality tour of downtown Raleigh where participants are assigned a persona and...

Group: Andrew, Nastia, Ariella, Molly Our work discusses the significance of interaction between users and media when designing for new information environments. We identify important moments in interaction from four different angles: (1) the scope of design and its accommodation to different...

At TEDGlobal 2010, author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. It’s not important how clever individuals are, he says; what really matters is how smart the collective brain...

When an individual first enters an environment (whether digital or natural) the individual engages in a three part process which leads towards their cognitive understanding of that space. First, the individual interprets cues within the space. Next, the individual makes decisions based on...

      Group members: Molly (Net. Tech.), Ariella (Em.), Nastia (Em.), Andrew (Systems). This Venn diagram explores the major points in each of our 4 articles (our group has 2 embodiment representatives, as shown in the diagram).  The major points are given for each article in...

Group: Nastia, Molly, Ariella, Andrew Our quick venn diagram from class shows a glimpse at concepts and ideas shared between our categories. After brief recap of our categories, we pulled out various main themes or big ideas that seemed to overlap. We anticipate that after a closer reading...

Ambient Findability and Redefining Genre Over the course of several centuries, people have finely tuned the machine of the codex, contributing both as creators and users. As we enter into the “digital era,” computer scientists, librarians, humanists, and designers have questioned some of...

Outline: Introduction: Redefining Genre: the codex as a refined machine “the web has confused our notions of genre” THESIS: Designers must redefine the machine of information. This involves redefining the way content interacts with shape and format. Digital environments bring...

The top center cluster is the main idea (blue card is the thesis, yellow supporting ideas, and pink sources). The focus of this chapter is on the problematic nature of navigating an overload of information. The author applies Mooers’s Law to studies in human information interaction...