Professor Heidi Boisvert began with a guest lecture on her body of work (see her website), and also mentioned the department’s seven-year self-study project, along with some upcoming changes. Visit her faculty page for contact info. We then began the “Games and Games Design” overview with a discussion of types of games, along with situational […]
Response to Assignment 3
Submit your response to the two Assignment 3 readings as a comment to this post, either as two separate comments or together in one comment.
Class 4, Wed 9/9 design exercise
We began with a review of different approaches to creativity and design methodologies— These are the combined/abbreviated steps that we focused on for the in-class design challenge— Here’s one example from IDEO on how to frame a design challenge— Then I showed some movie trailers and slides to help set a futuristic context for the […]
Class 3, Wednesday 9/2
This class began with an informal online quiz to see what you remembered from the historical context overview in Class 2. We then discussed your answers about your first technology-related memories: computer, phone, game, music (method of listening), and the technological innovation that most impacted your life thus far. We “unpacked” your answers to consider […]
Response to Assignment 2—reading
Please submit your written response to the reading “Speculative design: 3 examples of design fiction” (from the Read and Respond section of Assignment #2) as a comment on this post. See the Assignments page for due date.
Response to Assignment 2—videos
Please submit your written response to the videos (from the Watch and Respond section of Assignment #2) as a comment on this post. As mentioned on the Assignments page, you can send either or both to me via DM on Slack.
Class 2, Monday 8/31
Class began with you each noting your “tech firsts”— I began the historical overview with a slide featuring the gigantic Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC), the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, built during WWII by the U.S.— Then I went back in time to the early 1800s with the invention of the Jacquard […]
Response to Assignment 1
Draft your response in a word editor of your choice, in order to check grammar, spelling, and so forth, along with the word count. To submit it, click on the title of this post to go to the post page, scroll down to the “Leave a Reply” section, and copy your response to Assignment #1 […]
Welcome!
Please thoroughly read through the Syllabus pages. The Schedule page and other pages will be updated throughout the semester. Please also fill out this initial survey. To get started on the first assignment, navigate to the Assignments page and view the first assignment, which includes a link to the video documentary to watch, along with […]
