...Designing forAn Experience: Design Approach to Human-centered Jodi L. Forlizzi Designing forAn Experience: Design Approach to Human-centered Jodi L. Forlizzi Submitted to the Department of Design, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Design in Interaction Design © Carnegie Mellon University, 1997. All Rights Reserved. Author Advisor Richard Buchanan Department Head & Professor of Design Carnegie Mellon University Advisor Suguru Ishizaki Assistant Professor of Design Carnegie Mellon University May 1997 Designing forAn Experience: Design Approach to Human-centered Jodi L. Forlizzi Submitted to the Department of Design, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Design in Interaction Design Abstract My thesis attempts to understand experience as it is relevant to interaction design. Based on the work of John Dewey, Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, and Richard Carlson, I identify two types of experience in user–product interactions: satisfying experiences and rich experiences. A satisfying experience is a process–driven act that is performed in a successful manner. A rich experience has a sense of immersive continuity and interaction, which may be made up of a series of satisfying experiences. Based on this definition, I identify a set of design principles with which to create products that...
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...In “The Relationship between Obligation to Parents and Life Satisfaction for Vietnamese American Adults” by Tuyen D. Nguyen and Chau Nguyen we learn the Vietnamese adult children’s obligation to parents, and how young adults cope as they grow into adults. Nguyen explains that for some, Vietnamese American adults are experiencing social, economic, and cultural challenges associated with a new life in the United States but they are struggling in ways that did not significantly alter their traditional familial obligations. In his research, he surveys using primary data gathered from 95 Vietnamese American adults; this study examines the relationship between obligation to parents and life satisfaction of Vietnamese American adults. Through studying...
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...used too a new home with lots of differences compared to their culture. Sometimes refugee’s get helped to find a new home and get help too become a part of the community they are now in. When refugee’s find a home just means they lose some friends and part of their religion. Most refugee’s feel turned upside down and back again because they flee home because life at there home makes life challenging for them and after years they return back home after whatever the issue was is over for example war. Ha’s life is related to the universal refugee experience because she has faced all of the issues that a refugee would face. Ha has been part of the refugee experience...
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...“Living With Strangers” Many people think that urban life in big cities means a happy life, with no worries and just pure happiness. But what is happiness? And what makes us think that urban life is pure happiness? In the essay “Living With Strangers” by Siri Hustvedt, we hear about a woman's move from the countryside of Minnesota, to the Big Apple in New York City. Her move is described with many comparisons with her previous life and experiences, and a lot of humor, which underlines her situation and her attitude to urban life. In the following essay I am going to analyze and comment on Siri Hustvedt’s essay “Living With Strangers”. Part of my essay will focus on the genre, the attitude to urban living and the contrasts between Siri’s life in Minnesota and her new life in New York City. As said, the essay is based on Siri Hustvedt’s own life and experiences. Siri Hustvedt grew up in Minnesota, where everybody knows and greets each other. Now she lives in New York City where nobody seems to care about each other, and where greeting strangers would be “impractical and unsound”. This is a big change for her, and she uses an overwhelming amount of detailed descriptions to describe her situation in the Big Apple. She uses many personal experiences and examples, which characterizes the essay genre. Furthermore, she is very reflective, descriptive, subjective and very personal in her way of writing the essay. “It didn’t take long for me to absorb the unwritten code of survival...
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...PSYCHODRAMA I. Defining Psychodrama - Founded by Dr. Jacob Levy Moreno - Which means It means full psycho-realization - It is a technique for expressing difficult emotions and facing deep conflicts by having group participants enact significant life events. It is a method to externally express the internal psyche and work with a person's representation of the past, present, and future in the current moment. - Dr. Moreno defined psychodrama as "the science which explores 'the truth' by dramatic methods". Moreno emphasized that the main goal of psychodrama was to help clients discover their inner truth, express repressed re·pressed adj. Being subjected to or characterized by repression. ..... Click the link for more information. emotions, and create authentic relationships with others. II. Brief Background and View to Human Nature Psychodrama was originated by Jacob Levy Moreno (1889-1974) who taught, practiced and continuously developed psycho-dramatic methods in Europe and United States since 1921 until his death in 1974. Moreno was born in Romania, immigrated to Austria with his family as a child, and moved to the United States in 1925. As a psychiatrist trained in Vienna at that time, his training was psychoanalytically oriented. However, he disagreed with Freudian focus on dysfunctions, and instead, developed an approach based on human strength and potential. He believed in innate human capacity...
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...Through the power of community’s faith, we are able to speak about the self-respect and inadequacy of the triune God for what we heard and learned through our life experiences. Sometimes we lack the correct words or things to express to others about the triune God because of our little understanding of who God is in our life. The real reference we have is from creation that God is the creator of the earth and heaven and He knows the purpose of every creation for He is infinite. However, the early Christians laid a good foundation for us to know how we can all experience the triune God in our liturgical celebrations for example in mass and prayers. This helps us to experience the presence of the triune God and have faith to speak of God with others, although we have not...
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...they really mean, or truly live. These questions are what people like Francis Bacon, Clint Smith, Michelle Kuo, Karen Swallow Prior, and Ray Bradbury want to help people answer and start doing. To be spiritually and mentally awake and alive we must think and do things ourselves, take time to enjoy the small things, and experience and learn life lessons....
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...Life Changing Experience Carolas Purvis November 6, 2013 PHI2301| Introduction to Philosophy Faculty: Jena Jolissaint South University Online Individuals all over the world over experience countless experiences throughout their life. With each experience affecting a person in a different way, the day my life changed forever was August 10, 1990 when my beautiful baby girl was born. Bringing her into the world was the most life-changing and memorable experience, I have ever had. I can’t think of anything else that would compare. I was twenty-three years old, unemployed, not married, and hadn’t always made smart decision with my life. I was petrified of having to raise her all alone, how could I with no money or strong support system. The moment I saw her sweet little face, I knew I would do everything I could to make sure she had a good life and I would be the mother she deserved. Society and Single Mothers Despite the fact most Americans have become accustom with couples of the same-sex or couples raising children who are unmarried, they still see single mothers as disadvantageous to society, in accordance to a new poll of society’s thoughts with regards to the nation's rising number of nontraditional family units. And more than two eras after the hit TV show “Murphy Brown” triggered a public commotion when she had a baby out of; a lot of people continue to frown when it comes to the choice of single motherhood. The traditional way of life in our society when I...
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...better life by the way of studying abroad. And in most case, we choose to study in developed countries to get a progressive education. The reality is that there are more and more young people choose to study abroad rather than in local universities. In my opinion, studying overseas will bring to us both the advantages and disadvantages. First of all, when studying abroad we have a very good opportunity to improve our language. Since we live with local people surrounding, we practice with native speaker in every aspect of life. The environment there force us have to use English day by day. Therefore, naturally we have chance to practice and improve our language. Secondly, when we live in a new environment, it offers chance for us to broaden our mind. We experience the culture, custom, lifestyles and self-survive ability as well. People live in their own way and they face with problem in positive ways. We interact with different people come from different culture. Especially, you may make friends with many kinds of people from different countries. It should be interesting for us to have friends around the world and learn from different languages and cultures. Furthermore, studying abroad is the best way for us to learn from new high technology and methodology that we never get before in hometown. We may touch with the modern world that we used to see in TV only. And then, our life experiences much fun when life is totally different from our previous one. We will experiences more...
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...Ms. Tracie Jones Intro to College Writing 100 February 25, 2009 My Educational Experience As a freshman in college, I have had numerous experiences with education. Although some of my educational experiences have been negative most of them to date have been positive and very beneficial to me as a student. Many of my educational experiences have been from various sources. Such as, educational videos, the news, lectures, and many other sources. An educational experience I have encountered is watching Bill Nye the Science Guy videos in my 7th grade earth science class. My class would watch a video on what topic we were discussing that week in class. These videos are very easy to understand and informational. Watching the videos would give me a better understanding about the material we were going over. Over the years I have learned that I learn and remember things better by seeing them on an educational video rather that just listening to the teacher lecture. Watching videos in 7th grade was an immense benefit to my learning. In my college experience I haven’t watched any educational videos to help my learning and understanding of the material. The classes I have been enrolled in, the professors lecture the material and my fellow students and I take notes on the lecture. In America today, many children sit in front of the television and watch it for hours at a time. Thus, watching the videos at school would keep them more interested in the material because it...
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...different pathways to new experiences’ could be interpreted in many different ways. In The Story of Tom Brennan by JC Burke, Tom experiences different emotions and situations as he attempts to move into the world when his brother Daniel is involved in a tragic car accident. The image by Image Zoo also shows four different pathways leading into the one tree with branches that lead up into the sky. This picture shows the tree of life and how people can take different paths to experiences. I Measure Every Greif I Meet is a poem by Emily Dickinson that shows the strength a person needs to overcome grief in their lives. The strength comes within the individual and their surroundings. All three of these texts show that moving into the world involves different pathways to new experiences shown through different circumstances, problems and views. The image by Image Zoo reflects the idea that moving into the world involves different pathways. This image uses the rule of thirds and symbolism to bring attention to the four different pathways to the centre tree trunk. The rule of thirds draws central focus to the light coming from the tree. This light symbolises the light that is present through different pathways and journeys. Light symbolises the hope, possibilities that come with moving into the world. Even though each pathway comes to the same centre of light, it branches upwards into different pathways shown at the top of the tree trunk. The tree symbolises the “Tree of life” as the tree that...
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...The War’s Effect’s Towards Soldiers World War I was one of the most significant wars in U.S. history. It was significant because it created a gateway for new tactics, weapons, and it carved the way for a whole new style of warfare. In the book All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, Paul Baumer, the main character, and his comrades go through horrifying experiences that affect them both physically and mentally. Throughout the book Paul shows how war is a dehumanizing experience, but he continues to find ways to make him more human by appreciating the little things that he didn’t notice before his previous war experiences. Throughout the war Paul witnesses things that make him more empathetic and compassionate. These specific war experiences have influenced Paul in both negative and positive ways. For example when Paul comes to realize that the Russian prisoners are suffering he suddenly shows sympathy towards them by, “I take out my cigarettes break each one in half and give them to the Russians.” (194) As Paul overlooks the violence and fighting of the war he realizes that the so called “enemy” is just another man fighting for the same reason as he is. Paul now has a new outlook on the war and he is showing a very unexpected sensitive side, which is most definitely him being “human”. During the intensity of the war Paul was holding nothing back while being in battle with the men shooting at them with no feelings or regret. As Paul now looks at the enemy...
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...Grace Moore Psychodynamic Theories Brochure PSY / 405 Theories of Personality Robert Irizarry 09/21/2015 There have been many theories over time. All of them consists of their strong points as well as there week points in the way of explaining individual’s behavior. This brochure will show the way psychodynamic theories affects personality and behavior, also how it apply to strength an limitation. Theorists such as Freud, Jung, Adler, Fromm, Erickson, Sullivan, Klein and Horney. All of them have a different personalities, and experiences in life that manifested in their psychodynamic theories. All theories are a reflection of their author’s personal background, childhood experiences, and philosophy of life, the way that they looked at the world (2013). What is Personality? Personality is a patterned body of habits, traits, attitude and ideas. Of an induvial as these are organized externally into roles and statuses and they relate internally to motivation, goals, and various aspects of selfhood. Freud’s Theory According to Freud, The personality has three sections the ID, the ego, and the super ego. All three of them has a connection that enable then to work together...
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...New Orleans is a city of neighborhoods. It is within these neighborhoods where New Orleans’ cultural seeds are sown and community identity is established. The neighborhoods are where cultural traditions have been invented and preserved: cuisine, architecture, second-line parades, and jazz funerals. The cultural constituency of New Orleans’ neighborhoods have been instrumental in shaping the city’s old and new histories, social interactions, and the international affair the world has with the “Big Easy”. No stranger to death, destruction, and tragedy, New Orleans mixes it all up in a funky stew that makes magic out of everyday life, where every day there is a jazz funeral somewhere, every day is a second-line, and skeletons don’t hang out in...
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...Personal Leadership Plan” Throughout life will many of the experiences and there is a lesson being an each of my knowledge, I have through being my experience of the four being is career life, health life, age life, and mind life. I have a learned from experience like old time, I can learn from the experience of new being a volunteer and goal, and I was thinking about of the goal being a career life like learn new something being new experiences, I can make a plan to my identity of the leadership goals, I always need to be professionally, and I need to type of role, I need to learn to begin developing with my directions plan and I am kind of the style being are calm, helpful, and patient. But I can to help, loyal and often make a person who client or workers, but I have a completely with new ideas/ strong opinion being stand up and speak up with customer or employee a person. I am not kind to make a mistake of the company being serious. I have a organize of the paperwork important, will be cost being develop things of the strengths, when I start to work on the right to do, I have a responsibility of own area from the company, I always good listen to client and worker always speak up, and they're saying about important, If it is not important, I am not interesting with them, I can choose of employee and client who had a speak up of opinion. I am not weak and lazy, and I have to stand up and been stronger like a soldier. When I was starting new assignment will be changing things being...
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