Entries from Orange Cone tagged with 'terminology'
Finite and Infinite Terms: the trouble with optimistic names
As has been obvious in the recent past, I've been a bit focused on how and why disciplines, especially disciplines relating to ubiquitous computing, are named what they are. I'm not a language precision pedant most of the time--words...
Detangling the meanings around the design of services
One of the reasons I haven't posted to this blog in months (and likely won't post anything original to it for months more) is because most of my time is spent writing my ubicomp user experience design book. The chapter...
PICNIC08, Directories and Protocol Buffers
PICNIC I spent last week in Amsterdam at the PICNIC conference. Vlad Trifa of SAP/ETH invited me to present at an Internet of Things special session he organized, and it was one of the highlights of the conference. His timing...
Ambiguating the terminology: Web 4.0
I just got a pamphlet inviting me to the 2007 Semantic Technology conference, which has a curious illustration on page 3. The illustration shows the "evolution" of the Internet, really the Web, since what its creators do is show how...
A terminology experiment
After all of the observation- and analysis-based discussions of terminology on this blog, I decided to do a little experiment to see if there was any data that could be collected. To get an idea of how much people used...
Ambiguating the terminology: Quantitative Ethnographics
Continuing my project of observing how terminology shifts to describe the process of researching and designing the user experience of ubiquitous computing, I noticed a blurb in the latest issue of the IDSA's "design perspectives" newsletter. In it, they note...
Ambiguating the terminology: Palpable Computing
Excuse me while a rant a bit: <rant> We have a new entry in the terminology haze that surrounds ubiquitous computing, Palpable Computing. Hooray! Another word for roughly the same thing, but with a twist that could only have looked...
Disambiguating (?) the terminology (sketch 2)
Following up on my earlier post and attempting to include the terms that Adam and Bruce introduced, I wrote a sentence using all of the appropriate ubicomp buzzwords, as an attempt to create a narrative that ties together the fields,...
Disambiguating the terminology (a sketch)
Yesterday I was explaining what I do to a friend and started getting caught up in the usual tangle of terminology, so I came up with a structure for the different terms related to the fragmentation of information processing into...
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