#public settings

[theonewhoquotesallthings]

It’s SSE and should be commonplace.

(SSE stands for sign supported English because as a hearing person BSL grammar confuses me. I still need the practice) My favourite thing about knowing some sign language – especially having learned all I know alongside the person I have the most contact with, my mum – is that is scenarios that are too loud or where it’s not socially acceptable to shout, we are still fully able to communicate.…

It’s SSE and should be commonplace.

[madewithonerib]

NEVER make conversation with "the woman" || Manis Friedman

I don't understand this: You shared in another clip how your mentor played dumb so as to never correct a woman's husband in-front of her—this way the husband doesn't lose his man card; and in another session, that it is extremely difficult for couples to build on their existing connection if they try to be intimate with the lights on, or if they are angry or tired or drunk—so short of you entering a situation where you're stuck in a power outage & inebriated, which is what is key with the "free love movement of the 1960's - they were high as a kite." Why wouldn't you be able to control yourselves, when it is so difficult to get intimate with your spouse—whom you are much more motivated to & familiar with?

You also mentioned how Adam's missing rib is finally returned to him when he enters in a marriage union with a woman, so if we are made one in marriage: Why would this pose a problem? Anger/Revenge?

Again you said if you've had an argument with your person, then you are even more compelled to end it bc it is creating distance between you and the one you love. I personally think fights are a kiss of death, with each entanglement comes greater division.. & will escalate over time. But that's just me & how I've seen it play out; the way to go is to not get emotionally invested on certain outcomes or it's going to be a disaster for a really long time. I'm talking Chernobyl meltdown.

It sounds like the specific rib is always singularly meant for one man; and this you explained is how cool it is that GOD causes a confluence of events to bring these two together..

In a Church setting, I suppose the NT agrees that married women never ask others for answers—besides their husband, but there is no moratorium on single people. In the end, it sounds contradictory to assume anything meaningful would come from a handshake..?

Plus it sounds like wo/men can't work together. . ever

Unless you're attracted to s/o, other than your spouse, it makes little to no sense to beg out of most situations with an explanation—but it also seems odd, as you mentioned w/ A&E, that GOD has HIS reasons.. meaning HE would not allow it without an explicit reason or lesson behind a temptation: i.e. don't eat of the fruit [eyes bulging] towards the vine, to enact HIS plans for redemption.

I'm still so new at this concept of redemptive reversals. So I wonder if there are any such instances where you slipped on this rule & shook someone's hand, and it hurt you morally &/or spiritually but it also somehow helped to draw you closer to GOD & your fellow woman?

Or was that the caveat to gain discernment, that in the end, wisdom is knowing when to not trust yourself with ppl you don't care about? Because at that point, the flesh [animal soul] will come out & attack or take advantage of the unsuspecting?

Less than two years ago, I heard some comedians commiserate about the genius & tragedy of Bill Cosby, the single-most successful comedian in the history of man. And they said most people in the biz respected him, and they themselves struggle with their own demons but GOD forbid they luckily never got to that level of breaking bad.

P.S. I have witnessed the playing dumb card that some "teachers" try to pull on women who ask them pointed questions & it comes across as disrespectful, the same way you say we shouldn't condescend to our children & spouses when they say something that holds truth to it. But it seems there is a high level of deception men are allowed in dealing with women & even encouraged to do this—very old school thinking & it is holding a double standard.

How can you strive to be genuine & still recommend this? You said marriage should not be about love, but all the things that make for lasting foundational basis for relating to one another [respect, honesty, kindness, patience, transparency, etc.]

P.S.S. I still think the material GOD inspired you on the differences between wo/men, marriage success, and the implications of what brings about different POV/breaking points in the gender wars & marriage tranquility is beyond brilliant.

[notesonresearch]

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing journal Special Issue

We have a special issue of the journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. It's on 'performative interactions', by which we mean interactions with digital technologies that happen in public places, or where there is some potential for these interactions to 'become a spectacle' in some way.

From the introductory article:

Interactive digital technologies pervade our shared spaces in personal, mobile, infrastructural and other embedded forms. These changes challenge the ways we understand and investigate the relationships between people, computing and settings. Responding to this situation—where ubiquitous computing is not only personal but also public, and where digital interactions may happen anywhere—this special issue explores how HCI research can use the strengths of an intersection of theory, practice and innovation in order to best address this conjunction of interactive technologies, public spaces and people interacting with or within both.

[notesonresearch]

Two new CHI publications: “Gifting personal interpretations in galleries” and “Human values in curating a human rights media archive”

Have a couple of co-authored CHI publications this year for CHI 2014. References for these papers and PDFs of them are below, along with abstracts.

Lesley Fosh, Steve Benford, Stuart Reeves, and Boriana Koleva. Gifting personal interpretations in galleries. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, April 2014.

The designers of mobile guides for museums and galleries face three major challenges: fostering rich interpretation, delivering deep personalization, and enabling a coherent social visit. We propose an approach to tackling all three simultaneously by inviting visitors to design an interpretation that is specifically tailored for a friend or loved one that they then experience together. We describe a trial of this approach at a contemporary art gallery, revealing how visitors designed personal and sometimes provocative experiences for people they knew well. We reveal how pairs of visitors negotiated these experiences together, showing how our approach could deliver intense experiences for both, but also required them to manage social risk. By interpreting our findings through the lens of 'gift giving' we shed new light on ongoing explorations of interpretation, personalization and social visiting within HCI.

Abigail Durrant, Dave Kirk, and Stuart Reeves. Human values in curating a human rights media archive. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, April 2014.

Cultural institutions, such as museums, often curate politically and ethically sensitive materials. Increasingly, Internet-enabled, digital technology intersects with these curatorial practices offering new opportunities for public and scholarly engagement. We report on a case study of human rights media archiving at a genocide memorial centre in Rwanda, motivated by interests in ICT support to memorialisation practices. Through an analysis of our discussions with staff about their work, we report on how accounts of the Rwandan Genocide are being captured and curated to support the centre's humanitarian agenda and associated values. We identify transferable curatorial concerns for human rights media communication amongst scholarly networks and public audiences worldwide, elucidating interaction design challenges for supportive ICT and contributing to HCI discourses on value sensitive design and cultural engagement with sensitive materials. 

[sabahtude]

A man just sneezed and said, "excuse me." I've been sneezing all day and have said nothing.

[notesonresearch]

CHI 2013 publication ‘See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Hear Me’: Trajectories and Interpretation in a Sculpture Garden

We have a paper published at CHI 2013 on the design of an interactive guide for a cultural setting (a sculpture park). You can get the PDF here.

Reference and abstract below.

We apply the HCI concept of trajectories to the design of a sculpture trail. We crafted a trajectory through each sculpture, combining textual and audio instructions to drive directed viewing, movement and touching while listening to accompanying music. We designed key transitions along the way to oscillate between moments of social interaction and isolated personal engagement, and to deliver official interpretation only after visitors had been given the opportunity to make their own. We describe how visitors generally followed our trajectory, engaging with sculptures and making interpretations that sometimes challenged the received interpretation. We relate our findings to discussions of sense-making and design for multiple interpretations, concluding that curators and designers may benefit from considering "trajectories of interpretation".

Lesley Fosh, Steve Benford, Stuart Reeves, Boriana Koleva, and Patrick Brundell. 'See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Hear Me': Trajectories and interpretation in a sculpture garden. In Proceedings of SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). ACM Press, April 2013

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