Guitar hero: From icon of popular culture to nostalgic self-design

Guitar Hero: Nursery Rhyme Edition

This project will implement a version of the popular game Guitar Hero. The project will be composed of visual, audio, and interactive parts. The goal of the game is to be able to “play” the notes of a song chosen from a given list by pressing the appropriate buttons on the keyboard to match the ones on the screen. On the keyboard, keys F5-F12 will be used for the “notes” and Enter will substitu...

Mickey Mouse as Icon: Taking Popular Culture Seriously

tanding in front of Cinderella’s castle at Walt Disney World is a statue of two figures, one tall and one short, holding hands like parent and child. The tall figure is a representation of Walt Disney himself, evoking memories for baby boomers who watched him as the genial narrator of Disney’s Sunday evening television show. The smaller figure, the child, is Mickey Mouse, including those tradem...

Culture in User Interface design; cross-cultural icon design

From Hero to Zero

This article discusses the identity processes involved in the transition to retirement for emergency service workers, which includes police officers, fire fighters, and emergency medical personnel. The author conducted a study using the Enhanced Critical Incident Technique (ECIT) to determine what helped, hindered and might have helped emergency service workers in making decisions regarding ret...

Culture shock--patient as icon, icon as patient.

2748 ination of pet food, a detection method involving liquid chroma-tography–mass spectrometry became widely available and reliably identifies both cyanuric acid and melamine. A number of suspect foods from China tested by the FDA were found to contain melamine (see table), and more are being reported around the world each week. Furthermore, the FDA has found trace levels of melamine in severa...