7th Summary

20080430 & 20080502

Introduction to information technology
The Global school of Media – Class B (나)



[ computer-aid ]


intro Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin

CSCW: computer-supported cooperative work

Winograd and Flores
the language/action perspective of work
a diagram of a conversation for action


:) Key point
: Every digital media technology has an architecture using diagrams to compare physical
architectures with digital architectures


Agre : the surveillance model, architectures of surveillance.
the capture model & its relation to Winograd and Flores


:) CSCW
: computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) is a field of research and design.
(ex: CAD/CAM, ABB Powerwall, Drug Design)
Researchers in this field investigate how people work together in groups,
and design computer-systems and networks to enable or facilitate group work.

:) CSCW is considered to a part of a larger field known as CHI or HCI
: human-computer interaction (HCI) design, evaluation, implementation,
and study of interactive computing systems for human use.

Practitioners include Lucy Suchman, Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores (as well as several hundred others in university and corporate research laboratories).



:) Winograd and Flores
: Winograd and Flores present a methodology for CSCW analysis and design. This methodology is commonly known as the “language/action” perspective.


:) Winograd and Flores: model of conversation
Conversations are sequences of actions because by saying things people are understood to be doing things;

example : a diagram of a conversation for action




:) Key point
Every digital media technology has an architecture that can be used to transform work,
play and governance.

related ideas:
:) Key point (from earlier in the course): People make media and then media make people.
Larry Lessig on digital and legal codes and on the legal implications of the architecture of cyberspace Oscar Gandy on the “panoptic sort” and the panoptic architecture of cyberspace.
(we will read Lessig and Gandy later in the course)




:) physical architecture and digital architecture
For example, The Social Logic of Space (1990)
by Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson
- This book presents a general theory of physical architecture influences social relationships.





:) What is the architecture of cyberspace?
Consider the hardware and software that links together (or separates) groups of people



※ keypoint 5: People make media and then media make people.

Winston Churchill said, "We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us." quoted in Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn, 1994

“...the world determines what we can do and what we do determines our world.” Winograd and Flores, p. 559



:) five stage cycle of grammars of action

analysis
articulation
imposition
instrumentation
elaboration
Agre, p. 746-747















My Opinion :)
This week, We talked about ‘computer-aid’.
I saw many interesting things about ‘computer-aid’. (maybe…)
First, I was surprised at many things that we saw.

I have many expectation, but I don’t have many satisfaction.

Actually, I don’t understand very well.
Because Dr. yoon (It’s YOU!) is very busy.
So You told very quickly.

I heard expectly, But I don’t understand well.
Sorry.