The VUE
It's almost 9pm. I've started this adventure at 11 am today, and am fairly sure my eyes are bleeding. But I believe I have made my decision.
Here were my constraints for the dissertation:
1. must be relevant to design
2. must have a relative application: theory could be put to immediate use/testing
I wanted to look at web 2.0 applications in teaching, or the scheme developed by the telecoms to devise a cable pay scale web system. Worthwhile (in my opinion) topics that could shed some interesting light, especially on those rotten ISP bastards.
Narrowing those down, I came to find some interesting points on BitTorrent and textbooks. Okay, so what about making Wikis instead of textbooks and distributing the source files via torrents? Hmmm...will people use them? What happens if I develop it and the torrents are all dead, downloading from one seed?
...moving on with 2.0 technologies that don't suck. I wish I tracked all the pages I went through for this flow, but here's my idea flow, ironically not displayed in a visual sensemaking chart (item #3). Seriously, don't ask how I went through this, because I don't remember. At one time I had 20 tabs open in firefox. If you refer to the previous post, you can see a reference my obsessive compulsive nature.
-designer of 2015
-design 3.0
-visual sensemaking
-tagging and mapping through meta structures
-issuescreencrawler
-censorship online
-meta tagging (again)
-innovation acceleration-damn, this phrase is cool. Moving on
-VUE. Bingo. We have a winner.
Tie in web 2.0 without examining technologies that have been done for a while you ask? Yes, yes indeed. Enter VUE: "The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information."
In short, you can visually connect relevant items together and map them. Pedagogically, this would allow one to show connectedness between, say classic works of art or poetry.
i was looking at meta tagging, especially with what we have now with ilife, but this operates on that framework. How you ask? Because it works with one of the key principles of design 3.0: integrated design development.
Does it have a relevant application? yes, I imagine not as many people have heard of it yet as those that have heard of wikis.
Is it relevant to designers? heck yeah! this is not "how do I make a brochure" instruction here.
ahhh...now to get it to work and flesh it out.
and if it doesn't work out, I'm going back to metatagging the world. Hey, gotta go for global domination somehow.
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1 comments:
(Interesting blog topic by the way. I know its part of your research but I like how you are thinking! haha. Not meaning this in an awkward way!)
As we have discussed many times in class, you most
definitely want to make your website multi-functional and on many different platforms, meaning seeing it on your computer, cell phone, etc. And I also believe meta tags are a great tool. Some people don't really like them but I do. They are a good tool for lets say when someone wants to Google a site that has a topic about your site, it is easily picked up by the search engine. Better way to get the word out about your site rather than by word of mouth. I don't know why a lot of people don't use them but they are miss out on a great opportunity.
I have also wondered myself about "What if libraries don't exist anymore?" What if there are no books left and everything is on the internet? But also look at it, what if there is some sort of hacker creates this massive scheme to ruin the web, what will happen? The world would be at a complete stand still! Yes, having text books and having most of our "knowledge" on the computer/web is a great idea, but you also have to think about those idiots that have to ruin everything for us! Trust me if there is a will there is a way!
I don't know if this will help you any, but try to talk to Dr. Charlie Collins. He mostly deals with the "behind the scenes" type of web programing and we mostly deal with the artistic side, yes we do a lot of programing but we mostly deal with the "pretty/artistic" side of web design. He could be some help to you. Just thought I'd give ya an idea!
Good luck on your paper! Going for this degree sounds SUPER hard, but I know you can do it. You are very smart!
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