“Minecraft took away my Thursday – but I loved every moment.”
About this week
Another couple of publications going forward this week. Trying to compare the concept of ‘authentic context’ from Herrington, Reeves and Oliver (2010) in education with embodied cognition, phenomenology and human-computer interaction (e.g. with Paul Dourish’s work, see also references in the post from last week). Some interesting stuff coming out from this actually, hope to present it soon enough. See also sources below in the section “Interesting reading this week”.
Related to this, I asked fellow academics at ResearchGate a couple of questions, i.e. what is the relationship between phenomenology and embodied cognition, and how would you describe ‘Imaginative Variation’.
Research
If anyone is interested in going to ACIS 2015 (The 26th Australasian Conference on Information Systems), they have extended their call for papers to 10th August. This year it is at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, 30.11.–4.12.2015.
From the web
Nokia seems to be making some effort to return to the tech market. Still, the marketing message with this OZO VR camera is a bit lost with mixed tech affordances IMHO.
Like, cool, but “leave linearity behind” + “VR short film” sounds a bit like a contradiction of affordances. #VR https://t.co/7K9qUsCVMg
— Marko Teräs (@markoteras) July 29, 2015
Interesting reading this week
I am really aiming to better understand the relations between phenomenology, embodied cognition and neuroscience. Shaun Gallagher, naturally together with Merleau-Ponty, has proved to be a helpful source for this on many levels.
Gallagher (2015) How embodied cognition is being disembodied https://t.co/5Z7FQ29CEq #embodiment #embodiedcognition #cognition
— Marko Teräs (@markoteras) July 29, 2015
Here’s an interesting article about experience, AR and VR by Fominykh et al.
Fominykh et al. (2015) An Overview of Capturing Live Experience with Virtual and Augmented Reality https://t.co/8wyaTpcCDF#VR#AR#UX
— Marko Teräs (@markoteras) July 28, 2015
References
Dourish, P. (2004). Where the action is: the foundations of embodied interaction. Cambridge, MA: MIT press.
Herrington, J., Reeves, T. C., & Oliver, R. (2010). A guide to authentic e-learning. London and New York: Routledge.
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