Category: philosophy

• design thinking HCI/d Human-Computer Interaction learning philosophy writing

  Feeling a Good Presentation

  I can feel a good presentation, and I can feel a crumby one. I’ve been ginning up a presentation of a segment of a paper co-authored with my advisor, and there are some choice sections (of the presentation) where I’ve been able to pull in a few personal anecdotes to…

  October 1, 2013
• cybernetics HCI Human-Computer Interaction Informatics logic philosophy UX

  McCulloch and Pitts’ Logical Calculus

  Prompt: Several days ago, a Professor assigned us a reading. “A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity.” This is not the kind of reading I’m used to doing. It’s science. It’s (shudder) math. Nonetheless, I dove in with an agenda. We were asked (as a preface to…

  September 2, 2013