Nowadays, the term “smart product” has become prominent in our daily life. I believe many of you can easily pull out a few items with…
Author: Shirley Shi
Hello, I am an industrial designer. I studied Industrial Design (MS) at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China, and Kansei Science (Ph.D) at University of Tsukuba, Japan. I have over ten years of experience in teaching Industrial Design at BIT. Before I started teaching, I had also done product design for a product manufacturer and a design company in China.
Tech@Facebook published a wrist-based input device last week, which added a new tool to the family of VR/AR. Even though it is still in the prototyping…
A Model of Blended Learning
Posted in Mobile Education
When the traditional teaching mode doesn’t work in the school, how can teachers shift from a classroom-based course to a blended mode? In this short…
Blended classroom and flipped classroom are two educational concepts supported by network technologies. Even though both of them introduce technologies into traditional classroom-based teaching, they…
The word “context” has appeared several times in our ETEC523, such as Experience Design | ETEC523: Mobile and Open Learning (ubc.ca), Week 1: Mobility Perspectives |…
When I asked Google “Do technologies simplify our life”, this article came into my sight. This is a reflection by the author Nicholas Carr, which…