If you watch an experienced web user do a search you can’t help but be struck by the level of skill on display. Key sites are recalled or retrieved in seconds, multiple tabs and windows are opened and notes may be cut-and-pasted to a word document in rapid succession. The hand to eye co-ordination is… [Read more…]
October 11, 2009
Technology seems rational and all about progress but it isn’t really – that’s just a ruse to infiltrate human lives. It achieves this disguise because it exploits a range of types of numbers – things such as screen resolution in pixels, and size in cms or inches (as a strange non-metric anomaly), memory size in… [Read more…]
February 17, 2009
Becky's PhD on a typology of the consumer imagination
November 10, 2007
This is a much shortened version of a paper written by Janice Denegri-Knott Mike Molesworth (and with some imput by Detlev Zwick) and currently under review. Don’t cite without permission please. I wonder, though, at the extent to which eBay facilitated my passage through this particular consumer obsession. Into it and out the other… [Read more…]
November 2, 2009
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