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My Psychogeometric Map - Mihyung

I didn't really know what to do.. anyway, this is what I've got..(T_T)

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PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIC MAP

exercise : 2

ex.2

i'm not sure if this is how we suppose to do ...

Exercise Five: Bring a Toy

Exercise Five will take place in class next week.

Please bring, beg, borrow or steal (OK, don't steal) a toy from home or elsewhere to class next week (February 1) Our definition of a toy is as yet undetermined, so feel free to challenge our preconceived notions. We'll be playing with, discussing and deconstructing these objects next week.

exercise two

the street was full of cigarette smell. weather was dead cold. icy wind.
near the parking place dirty garbage smell awful
when i got close to the castle like? building the atmosphere was scary and the sky was really dark///
my fingers were frozen.
i just wanted to go back to class room. :P

Exercise Four Example: an Object I Love

My object is the STAEDTLER® Mars® technico 780 C lead holder. I have 4 of them. One I've had since 1996, and the rest I've acquired later. In each I keep a different weight of lead: 6H, 4H, 2H and HB.

Affordances are subtle yet clear. The knurled end gives a tactile indication of where to best hold the lead holder; the clip keeps it secure in my pocket protector (ha, ha). As we expect, the end serves as a push-button to advance the lead. More unusually, it also serves as a sharpener, a possibility subtly suggested by its size (the same as the lead) and clarified by a diagram on the Staedtler website.

When the end is depressed, the lead advances. One potentially problematic aspect of the design is that unlike most lead holders, the lead does not advance incrementally. Instead, the push-button opens the jaws at the end that grip the lead, allowing the lead to potentially fall out of the pencil (an expensive error, at 2 bucks a lead). Once learned, it becomes natural to guard against this with your other hand when advancing a lead, and the infinite adjustability allows the lead to be sharpened to both a sharp and rounded tip, but perhaps a physical constraint could be introduced that prevents the lead from falling out completely.

There's no way to automatically differentiate between the different weights of lead, as the only available colour is blue. I've added an ugly label made of masking tape to each, which provides crude visible feedback, but it's an ugly solution at best.

Incidentally, the lead holder is yet another victim of the inexorable advance of digital technology. My supplier tells me that Staedtler will stop producing all drafting products in 2007. Another dinosaur, like film, which Kodak will stop producing in 2007. Perhaps the lead-holder (and the associated skill of hand-drafting) will experience a vinyl-like renaissance. In the meantime, I'll hold on to mine, beautifully constructed reminders and remainders of another age.

Exercise Four: an Object you Love, an Object you Hate

In your home, find two functional objects: one that you love, and one that you hate.

Make a brief post to the blog where you describe your love/hate relationships, using the tools and vocabulary introduced in the Basic Interaction Principles lecture.

Be sure to include photographs of your objects in your post.

Exercise Three: Strategies for Conveying Visual Information

Your group for Project One has been assigned 2 or more examples of strategies related to Gestalt Principles of Perception that can be employed to convey visual information.

In your groups, before next week, create a post to the blog that summarizes this strategy for the class. Include at least one example (with a visual) that is not found in Universal Principles of Design. Be prepared to briefly present your post on Thursday, February 1.

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