Link to Original Post: Task 10 – Attention Economy (Stiff, 2023) Comment Hi Amy! I enjoyed reading your response to this activity. User Inyerface did a really great job at subverting expectations when it comes to web interface design. As you mention in your post, this illustrates what is possible with web design and how …
Monthly Archives: March 2023
Task 11: Detain/Release
This week’s task involved engaging with a simulation called Detain/Release (Porcaro, 2019), which involves taking on the role of a pre-trial judge and ‘ruling’ on 24 simulated cases. Rulings are based on simulated defendant profile, scaled AI risk assessments, and prosecution recommendations. I attempted the simulation twice, as my connection failed towards the end of …
Task 10: Attention Economy
This week’s task involved playing the online game User Inyerface (Bagaar, 2019) and reporting back on our experience. I found this task to be both fun and frustrating, and in many ways, reminded me of an escape room challenge in the form of web page. The game managed to subvert my expectations a number of …
Task 9: Network Assignment Using Golden Record Data
This task involved analyzing a network based on each class member’s song choices for Task #8: Golden Record Curation using Palladio, a data visualization tool (Stanford, n.d.). Analysis Given that I have very limited experience with network visualization, let alone Palladio, the video tutorials by Systems Innovation (2015) were a useful primer to become more …
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Task 8: Golden Record Curation
This week’s task involved curating 10 musical tracks from the original 27 that were included on the Voyager Golden Record. Listed below are the tracks that I’ve selected: Reflection When approaching this task, I was reminded of Dr. Smith Rumsey’s recorded talk at Brown University (2017), which addresses the preservation of digital information in the …