Participatory Design is this big giant concept that people have the right to have a say in design of things that affect them best illustrated by the now mythical newspaper workers of Sweden in the late 70’s/early 80’s [zotpressInText item="{N6KKMBTV}"]. Co-design has come to mean two things but everything I have written and especially our FACIT PD article$[zotpressInText item="{DZ7II994}"]‘says it is a subset of PD where you work with the targeted users in the design of a thing. In essence, PD and Co-Design are synonymous except the concept of a right. In practice, PD has been bastardized to mean ANY time you work with people (seriously) so focus groups, interviews, and I’ve even seen testing as being labeled PD. (I once reviewed a paper where experts sat around and pretended to be users and called that PD). Most of the popular child-computer interaction design research lives within the co-design space. (The second meaning for co-design is that people work together to design something so in some hierarchies, PD is a subset of co-design. This is why it is always important to describe your definitions at the beginning.) ...

That’s right, it’s time to play everyone’s favorite game that requires thin windows and big mufflers… Listen up… do you hear the Blue Mazda or White Honda? What is it Ann Walsh?… is it the Blue Mazda….or the White Honda? Ann: Blue Mazda Greg (Looks out window): You’re ……. RIGHT!!! It’s the Blue Mazda.

I’m not sure if that is even possible…I mean, how will I find out about my 20th HS Reunion or what Social Maven @jasoncyip is up to?

Jim Gray’s opening plenary at IDC 2011 discussed the following things: See Twitter for Maslow, Piaget, Vgotsky, Bru<?>, Erik Erikson, and info on Worlds Barbara Rogoff Cultural Nature of Human Development - Looks at Personal, Interpersonal, Cultural, and Participation (They were playing scrabble!) Jim Gray - Learning Ecosystem Adding and Sustaining Value The Once-ler looks at how to grow value while the Lorax looks at how to uphold virtues

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Split huge files in Ubuntu or any other Linux distro - LinuxScrew: Linux Blog.

Here’s my best rendering of the HCIL lab in floor plan format.

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I received an email at the International Children’s Digital Library written in French. It was short but I understood it and wanted to reply. For some reason, I thought you signed letters in French with Regard. Actually, according to French Letter Closings, there are many more options and they are infinitely more “French” than a simple word.

We dropped cable/satellite in Fall ‘09. It wasn’t that we were anti-cable or anything, it was just that $108 a month was pretty pricey…especially for a PhD student who really only watches what’s on network TV. After multiple attempts at a home-built DVR, my wife and I bought a TiVo and learned the joys of over-the-air (OTA) broadcasts. What we lost in content, we made up in cost savings. The TiVo allowed us to cut the cord (the cable cord at least) and not move away from the UI that most modern tv systems have: guide, information, and the ability to pause a show. ...