"The problem is that the attention economy makes it economical to spread one’s attention across eight different interests and 23 different friends each day. And because we’re all spreading our attention so thin, many of us are losing the all-important life skill of focus.
Focus is what generates long-term success. Focus leads to deeper and more meaningful relationships. Focus determines how well we can improve at something. Yet our current economy is constantly providing incentive away from focus and towards—whoa, did you see that video of the guy on the motorcycle who landed on the car? That was crazy!"
— We live in a future where our attention is cheaply sold - Quartz
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This week I collaborated with a group of scholars and designers focused on humanistic questions and approaches to visualizing data for a Digital Humanities conference at Georgia Tech. Some of the questions that we’ve been considering consciousness, embodied cognition, and the interplay between system 1 and 2 posed from this course manifested itself into my…
ROY: Calculated Submission: A Meditation On Consciousness And Will was originally published on Song HITP
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Work in progress for Lickr. [Lickr On Github] Lickr is a response to the omnipresent compulsion to carefully craft life for social media platforms with the most personal of our devices. Lickr uses these plugins: cordova-plugin-camera VideoCapturePlus (for default front camera access LibraryHelper-cordova (for access to iOS camera roll) cordova-plugin-console (for debugging) Planned…
AOAC: Midterm Prototype was originally published on Song HITP
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I wondered what intuitive prejudices I could expose this week. Would the awareness of my own hand interfere with my auto-intervention? Given the past few weeks of this class, I shouldn’t have been surprised at all. The elephant is powerful. Two posts informed this week’s experiment. Leah Reich, User Researcher at Slack and Sociologist, wrote…
ROY: Lying To Yourself: The Power Of Unsophisticated Personalization was originally published on Song HITP
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Using Dan’s javascript I conduced a word count on as many emails matching “from:my email address” as I could retrieve before the process crashed my browser. I immediately noticed words with high counts that didn’t seem to be part of my vocabulary or that I recall using under very narrow and specific contexts (vampires! blood!) and…
ROY: Song Hiaku was originally published on Song HITP
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Update: the prototype is working! @hugoluc helping demo #lickrapp #mouthie A video posted by Song Hia (@songhia) on Mar 8, 2016 at 11:55am PST @halenoe does the #😝 #mouthie A video posted by Song Hia (@songhia) on Mar 21, 2016 at 6:32pm PDT Updates on Lickr: page transitions are now working properly integrated…
AOAC: LICKR PROGRESS was originally published on Song HITP
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Lift Floats, “the East Coast’s largest premier sensory deprivation / floatation therapy center” opened down the street from my apartment over the summer. Amy gifted me with a pass and this seemed like as good as any of a way to talk to the elephant. I didn’t come into the experience with much expectations or prior…
ROY: Thought Without Body was originally published on Song HITP
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What are the ways in which we interact with our phones? There’s the different ways we can interact with the touch-screen obviously, whether it be via gesture, objects (including banana), and our nose and tongue. These are the sensors that Apple has explicitly called out on their consumer iPhone 6s page: Touch ID fingerprint sensor Barometer…
AOAC: How Do We Interact With Our Phones? / Lickstr Licking App Concept was originally published on Song HITP
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