Short Entry
Thanks Arun for the clear overview of the issues that are coming out of these papers. And also for the link to MIT's website, the examples of projects are really helpful for understanding the distinctions we are trying to make in class.
A few questions:
"We live between two worlds" is on the front page of this website. In class can we address this "two-world" idea and whether different people in the community address the combination of these spaces in different ways. For example in the "Getting a Grip on Tangible Interaction" paper they discuss different viewpoints on TUIs and for me the "expressive-movement-centered" and the "space-centered" viewpoints are much more accessible than the "data-centered" view. Can we unpack the data-centered view? So is the data view the viewpoint responsible for the "two" worlds? According to these authors the data view focuses on transversals between them or the ways in which they are coupled, and on representation.
I don't understand the sentence defining the data view of TUI as "utilizing physical representations and manipulation of digital data, offering interactive couplings of physical artifacts with 'computationally mediated digital information.'"
I was curious, in thinking about Sparky, about the hand and how it is coupled with the mouse in a way that the hand itself might become a "generic and transient intermediary" since the hand itself becomes tool and somewhat disembodied.
Is embodiment really undisembodiment? That is, do we only say embodiment because, as Paul explained, we have overemphasized identity of the self with mind, eye, thought, and immaterial rationality? Does embodiment signify more than that?