Text
Language, especially its permanent textual form, is a format that virtually every human has the ability to use and is undeniably powerful, emotive and expressive. Carefully selected, words can ring an air of stark truth and clarity, and can drive a deep understanding directly into the human subconscious. However to achieve the degree of expression […]
2.4 Natural conception of space
The extent of our experience thus dictates an arbitrary limit on the dimensionality that we understand. However, there is no such limit on the complexity of relationships between objects. It is these relationships that dictate the pattern of a system that we seek to comprehend, and it is these which we […]
Wikis - Making Sense out of a House of Shards(c) Martin@Cleaver.org2 December 2004
A wiki can be a posting board, knowledge base, project tracker, photo album, and discussion forum. It’s all of these, yet none alone does it justice. Even for the most experienced, a Wiki can be infuriatingly difficult to classify!
From a linguistic perspective, the […]
2.3On Space
The environment or “milieu” that we live in is partly composed of a space and as such, some of the earliest things that we need to describe during childhood exist in a spatial field. We become accustomed to understanding the spatial dimensions and become experienced at describing them. Survival, [MIM] claims, has become our […]
2.2 Mental Models
People construct internal representations, called mental models, of the situation in the world that they want to reason about and then change those models, in ways corresponding to the ways the world can change, to try to find solutions to their problems.
[Mind in Action, p 68]
The creative process is essentially the formulation […]
2. Background Investigations
“It is in symbolic, visual terms that the designer ultimately realises his perceptions and experiences; and it is in the world of symbols that man lives. The symbol is thus the common language between the artist and spectator”
Brian Lawson - How Designers Think
In this chapter, we survey various texts to get some […]
Chapter 1: Language, maps, communication and memory.
“The horror of that moment,” the King went on, “I shall never, never forget!” “You will, though,” the Queen said, “if you don’t make a memorandum of it.”
Lewis Carroll ( 1832-98 ) - Through the looking glass (1872)
To exchange thoughts is a fundamental need of every human being. No […]
Abstract
When referring to a problem, we often speak of a space in which the problem’s parts exist. This allows us to speak metaphorically and to apply knowledge constructed in a given field to be useful in a less familiar one.
Concepts are universally separate from representation, yet the representation often subtly distorts or obscures the ideas. […]
There are so many people and good topics in the Blogosphere, its very easy to get overloaded with postings. This article is my investigation of how to blend and filter RSS feeds using Digg, how much of Digg accomplishes what I want, and thoughts of how Digg might in the future extend its functionality to […]
Great presentation about our need for Semantic Integration. Places concept maps up there with wikis…
http://www.danmccreary.com/presentations/sem_int/sem_int.ppt
M.
(Links was broken… thanks to Jim for letting me know)
