links for 2010-11-11

“The pur­pose of the Cyborg, as well as his own home­o­sta­t­ic sys­tems, is to pro­vide an orga­ni­za­tion­al sys­tem in which such robot-like prob­lems are tak­en care of auto­mat­i­cal­ly and uncon­scious­ly, leav­ing man free to explore, to cre­ate, to think, and to feel.” A good design guide­line, if you ask me.

“…there’s going to be an inter­est­ing job com­ing — some­where between design and com­mu­ni­ca­tions — expressed in behav­iour. And some­thing to do with ani­ma­tion and some­thing to do with chore­og­ra­phy.” I don’t think that’s a new job, I think it’s inter­ac­tion design. The descrip­tions here are spot on though, and embed­ded behav­iour is sure to come to the fore in the com­ing time.

Games for edu­ca­tion is a top­ic close to my heart. How­ev­er, I found this arti­cle to be a dis­ap­point­ing mess of hype and hunch­es with the occa­sion­al good idea hid­den between them.