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What are you doing' im Elfenbeinturm? - Microblogging im universitären Einsatz

What Are You Really Thinking?

This note describes a response to the call for sonifications issued in connection with ICAD2004. The resulting piece is entitled " What are you really thinking? " 1. OVERVIEW The call for sonifications issued in connection with ICAD2004 presented a challenge to the scientific and artistic community: to convert to sound 36 channels of data (mostly electro­ encephalograms, but also heartbeat, res...

Children's thinking: what never develops?

Typically, investigators of cognitive development have adopted a perspective opposite to my title (e.g., Siegrer, 1978). Differences between children and adults are explored and descriptions are put forth of how knowledge structures and processes of one age group differ from those of another. There has been surprisingly little attention to those properties that remain invariant across developme...

Im Team stark: Design Thinking und User-Centered Design

Das DT kommt der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion (MCI) in der Ausbildung zugute, weil die im DT verwendeten Arbeitsweisen für gute Interaktionsdesigner grundlegend sind, meist aber nur an Design Fachbereichen gelehrt werden. Dabei wird insbesondere von dem selbst erarbeiteten praktischen Verständnis von Kontext, Benutzer und Problemstellung profitiert und der daraus resultierenden konsequenten Nutz...

What do Sketches Say about Thinking?

Sketches are produced in many domains to communicate with self or others. They are a kind of external representation serving as a cognitive tool to augment memory and information processing by relieving the mind of some of those burdens. Sketches schematize. They do not portray reality; rather they convey conceptions of reality. Sketches use elements and spatial relations on paper to represent ...