Corinna Sherman » Pittsburgh http://www.corinnasherman.com Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:27:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 A new semester http://www.corinnasherman.com/blog/reflection/a-new-semester http://www.corinnasherman.com/blog/reflection/a-new-semester#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:27:04 +0000 Corinna http://www.corinnasherman.com/?p=626 The second semester of my Master of Design in Interaction Design program began this Monday, and I can already tell it will be a cold, hard marathon to the end. I’ve been training by walking to and from school each day in the snow, uphill both ways, with a fully loaded backpack. Today was a relatively balmy 34°F day. Sunny. Atypically devoid of precipitation. But I am not letting that lull me into a false sense of security. Oh, no. I am taking vitamin D supplements to get me through the Pittsburgh winter, and I’m keeping a regular sleep schedule to keep the germs at bay. My challenge this time around:

Graduate Design Studio II featuring a semester-long team project to design a social service, sponsored by either Microsoft or Motorola (to be determined by a brief yet brutal death match on pay-per-view)

Research Methods in Human Centered Design covering a series of methods for explorative, generative, and evaluative research (my favorite to imagine: “velcro modeling”) to support the project work in Studio II

Graduate Design Seminar II reading and writing about interaction design (Will anyone top Henri Bergson for most baffling argument? Stay tuned…)

Adaptive Service Design exploring service design that leverages context-aware technology such as mobile phones, intelligent environments, and robotic products (super excited about this one!)

Information Design and Rhetoric exploring how rhetoric can provide systematic frameworks for designing information products in complex situations (more reading and writing guaranteed to blow my mind, plus two projects)

And just to prove it’s on, I’m going to stop this post now and go do some reading. Stay warm, people.

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]]> http://www.corinnasherman.com/blog/pittsburgh/testing-new-camera/feed 0 It’s just past the dinosaur… http://www.corinnasherman.com/blog/pittsburgh/its-just-past-the-dinosaur http://www.corinnasherman.com/blog/pittsburgh/its-just-past-the-dinosaur#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:54:47 +0000 Corinna http://www.corinnasherman.com/blog/uncategorized/454 Directions I got from a local to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh included the phrase, “It’s just past the dinosaur.” I found it fairly quickly after that. Can you spot the dinosaur in this photo I took outside the library?

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