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This is audio-visual presentation is for my Graphic Design MFA thesis entitled Ethical Persuasive Technology as a Cultural Force. If you have just 8 minutes to watch it, I promise it is both explanatory and visually entertaining.
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Ethical Persuasive Technology as a Cultural Force
Integrating the components of persuasive technology and technological mediation provide an effective framework for designers to create ethically responsible artifacts. This study will clarify the opportunities for valuable insight gained through understanding how digital environments influence society and culture. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: ethics, methodology, persuasion, thesis, user experience
Sample Space Of One:
A Critical Theoretical Framework
Thesis Statement
Through digital environments, graphic designers mediate perceptions and create conduits to meaning. This leads to designs that collectively represent and guide social participation. However, when considering the individuality of human experience, objective reality is rarely considered. Cognitive phenomenology affords a critical theoretical framework for current design practices. Read the rest of this entry »
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Just when you think you have it all figured out, there is so much more. And in my case, that “so much more” is every bit as fascinating as what I started with. I am far more intrigued and invested in my topic now. The interviewees I spoke with were both extremely well educated and published in the areas of user experience design and in subjective perspective research. Read the rest of this entry »
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The following questions support active research efforts toward my thesis concept. A list of interviewees will be added shortly
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Through digital environments, graphic designers mediate perceptions and create conduits to meaning. This leads to designs that collectively represent and guide social participation. However, when considering the individuality of human experience, objective reality is rarely considered. Phenomenology affords a critical theoretical framework for current design practices. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: graphic design, methodology, phenomenology, user experience
Purpose: (AKA THESIS STATEMENT)
Because user-experience design is based on the needs and wants of the user, designers should focus on the critical importance of phenomenology as an effective methodology of a cultural system of interaction in a digital environment.
Tags: culture, methodology, phenomenology, thesis, user experience