Chapter 11: The Girl in Conflict
Summary
The Samoans follow a very strict lifestyle. This chapter describes the two main reason why girls break away from their groups: girls want more freedom or they are considered delinquents.
Discussion
I might have mentioned this before, but these type of situations are seen in the Mexican culture as well. Girls are supposed to act a certain way and when they don't it is typically because they want to pursue more freedom by breaking away from their families. They can also break away when they start hanging out with delinquents, and soon become one. People who deviate from the norm are looked down upon.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Paper Reading # 14
Reference:
PhotoelasticTouch: Transparent Rubbery Tangible Interface on an LCD and Photoelasticity
October 4-7, 2009 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Toshiki Sato, Haruko Mamiya, Hideki Koike, Kentaro Fukuchi
Summary
This paper talks about a system called PhotoelasticTouch that is tabletop system that is touch-based interaction. Three applications are described in this paper: a touch panel, a tangible face application, and a paint application. The main concern these researchers have is that current touch-based systems have rigid surfaces and therefore lack tactile expresiveness. The paper proposes elements such as no equipment that limits natural movement, flexible surface, surface should not block the image of the display, and interaction such include touching, pinching, kneading or pulling. They also describe other elements being proposed by other researchers in their systems. Most of these relied in IR camera and did not have tactile feedback in most. Photoelastic Touch is made up of an LCD, high speed camera, polarizing filters, and a transparent elastic body made of polyethylene or silicon rubber. The way PhotoelasticTouch works is by capturing deformations on the elastic polyethylene. The camera detects linear and circular polarized light from the deformations. The changes in pressure allows PhotoelastichTouch to infer direction without having to slide your finger. The three applications described are the Pressure-Sensitive Touch Panel, Tangible Face, and Paint Application. The touch panel senses multiple touches and also their perspective pressure values. With this application you can also rotate objects without sliding your finger. The tangible face is an application where you can deform a face image by applying different pressures with your fingers. The paint application is used by the user applying more pressure to draw thicker lines, and low pressure to draw thinner lines. In addition, the user can create elastic shapes such as stars, hearts, and circles to draw with.
Discussion
It is interesting to see that people are researching surfaces that allow pressures to be identified, and give the user more options rather than the now classic rigid surfaces. Graduate students were asked to use the elastic surface and most of them seemed to like it. However, we have to look into what type of applications a soft surface can be beneficial for.
PhotoelasticTouch: Transparent Rubbery Tangible Interface on an LCD and Photoelasticity
October 4-7, 2009 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Toshiki Sato, Haruko Mamiya, Hideki Koike, Kentaro Fukuchi
Summary
Discussion
It is interesting to see that people are researching surfaces that allow pressures to be identified, and give the user more options rather than the now classic rigid surfaces. Graduate students were asked to use the elastic surface and most of them seemed to like it. However, we have to look into what type of applications a soft surface can be beneficial for.
Book Reading #34- Opening Skinner's Box
Chapter 10: Chipped
Summary
This chapter talks about the founding father of lobotomy - António Egas Moniz. Slater describes his discovery and how we won the Nobel Prize in 1949. Egas Moniz was in a neurology conference when two researchers claimed that after they cut a bad attitude monkey's fibers connecting the frontal lobe to the limbic system, the monkey started behaving correctly. During the conference, Egas Moniz stood up and proposed to do the same to humans.
Discussion
Even though it might have been strangely and unethical to hear about the birth of lobotomy, the numbers could clearly show that he was heading in the right path. According to the chapter, about 65% of the patients treated with a lobotomy showed some sort of improvement in behavior. Even though the chapter also claims that some people did not like Egas Moniz because he chose his patients, how could anyone criticize him when this was something that could potentially help neurology.
Summary
This chapter talks about the founding father of lobotomy - António Egas Moniz. Slater describes his discovery and how we won the Nobel Prize in 1949. Egas Moniz was in a neurology conference when two researchers claimed that after they cut a bad attitude monkey's fibers connecting the frontal lobe to the limbic system, the monkey started behaving correctly. During the conference, Egas Moniz stood up and proposed to do the same to humans.
Discussion
Even though it might have been strangely and unethical to hear about the birth of lobotomy, the numbers could clearly show that he was heading in the right path. According to the chapter, about 65% of the patients treated with a lobotomy showed some sort of improvement in behavior. Even though the chapter also claims that some people did not like Egas Moniz because he chose his patients, how could anyone criticize him when this was something that could potentially help neurology.
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