Meeting 4:Thinking about programing
So we talked about my problem with doing the user case scenario and how my versions on this blog under assignment 3 are too remote and abstract. We talked about the need for me to imagine myself into the context of use of the object I’m trying to make. We talked about how the language 1 use could enable me to do this, the need to name the specifics, to talk it into existence? This is interesting as it is so much about linguistic practices and identities – so in a sense I am both imaging my self through the use of language as someone presenting the interactive essay and simultaneously I am imagining the essay and – biggest leap of imagination – my self as any kind of programmer.
Talked about ‘what happens when I walk up to the object’
The need to build a narrative of its use: what does it look like - me showing and demonstrating it to the group, and the audience coming up and ‘playing with it’. Talked about the need to get right down on the level of the description – ‘Joe clicks on a button and it looks like this…blah’
The need to think about the way that things are arranged on the space of display
What is the dimensionality is it 2D or 3D
What kind of structure does it have? An essay has a linear structure, webpage is semi linear – it branches out and off, or is it like a wiki
My talk might demand a linear starting point, but then if caroline, diane and co come up and play around with the elements on screen, link to other things – how will the essay structure avoid people getting lost in this thing?
Will people be able to draw lines and connections?
Would be nice to have wiki like links out?
Talked about the structure maybe opening with each thing, multimodality, pace, interactivity being linked to examples on the www that open up via my presentation.
That this possibility of building in more links from say caroline or diane’s examples as they read and make the presentation.
In short talked about how to get it all web 2.0 ish!
Ended up with a very sketchy diagram – which may mean nothing to anyone but me.
Next step is the scenarios and attempting – through these narratives to address the above questions. Plus to carry on with the basic html.
Talked about ‘what happens when I walk up to the object’
The need to build a narrative of its use: what does it look like - me showing and demonstrating it to the group, and the audience coming up and ‘playing with it’. Talked about the need to get right down on the level of the description – ‘Joe clicks on a button and it looks like this…blah’
The need to think about the way that things are arranged on the space of display
What is the dimensionality is it 2D or 3D
What kind of structure does it have? An essay has a linear structure, webpage is semi linear – it branches out and off, or is it like a wiki
My talk might demand a linear starting point, but then if caroline, diane and co come up and play around with the elements on screen, link to other things – how will the essay structure avoid people getting lost in this thing?
Will people be able to draw lines and connections?
Would be nice to have wiki like links out?
Talked about the structure maybe opening with each thing, multimodality, pace, interactivity being linked to examples on the www that open up via my presentation.
That this possibility of building in more links from say caroline or diane’s examples as they read and make the presentation.
In short talked about how to get it all web 2.0 ish!
Ended up with a very sketchy diagram – which may mean nothing to anyone but me.
Next step is the scenarios and attempting – through these narratives to address the above questions. Plus to carry on with the basic html.
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