1. The basic form of the codex was invented in Pergamon in the third century B.C.E. or had earlier forms. The fourth century B.C.E. was the age of its popularity. 2. An obvious error is the two Chinese characters should be carved reversely.Also, in Song Dynasty, In the Song Dynasty, they should be traditional Chinese…
Our Roles in a People-oriented Environment
People learn not only lessons from history, but also experiences and thoughts. Throughout history, we may have a thorough understanding of the process of constructing each area or object in the past, and be imaginative and creative about the future. “Man is the measure of all things”, the statement by the ancient Greek philosopher Protagoras…
Important to understand the background history
As interaction design is important to understand the background history because what we are made now is not just made. The ancient history of invention has been brought together to develop the current technology. Humans like to record everything and we learn from the information of records. Thus the invention of printing continued, and the…
Errors
1: Johannes Gutenberg was the first European invented movable type printing, and mass production of this technology, but it does not mean that he invented first, movable type printing was the earliest invention in the East.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg 2: During the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD), an official named Cai Lun improved the technique after years of…
A conversation about affordances between Gibson and Norman
Recently, the concept of affordance has been increasingly interested in the design community because it describes the relationship between human users and designed products well. It was first introduced by the perceptual psychologist James Gibson: “The affordances of the environment are what it offers the animal, what it provides or furnishes, either for good or…
How to Treat VR Technology
With the popularization of VR(Virtual reality) technology, human beings seem to enter the door of different dimensions through this new medium. In many ways, it is still in the stage of being explored and discovered. Different people also hold different views and attitudes towards its development, some people expect it, some worry about it. What…
Media Extension and Social Change
It is important to understand how small “media extension” affects “social change” and even the development of human history. Robert Bringhurst said, “Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form”. The greatness of movable type lies in its realization of template based on the original woodblock printing, which makes the…
Moveable Type and Renaissance in Interaction Designe
The understanding of the moveable type and the Renaissance is important in Interaction Design. As an interaction designer our products are nothing without the users interacting with them. We rely on our users to be able to process the information we are sharing through our intentionality. The emergence of moveable type was huge for the…
Message from the ancient knowledge
I think movable type printing and the invention of the Renaissance are very important to interaction designers because the things they invented in the time they existed are impossible for them to achieve. However, in the distant future, almost all of their inventions have been realized and have a major impact on our lives. For…
The milestone of voice used in games
Playing games is an almost indispensable thing in modern life. Many people can get a sense of accomplishment in the game world that they can’t get in reality because everything is virtual. Some voice interactive systems appear to be in a dilemma. The advantage is that you can communicate with people on the same team…
Errors
1.The first error I found is the date of the codex. I believe it can be traced back to the 1st century, not the 4th century. 2.The second error I found is the image for two Chinese movable type should be in reverse. 3.The third error I found is the paper was invented around 105A.D…
Errors – From video “The History of Books”
The first error appears at 0:53 seconds of the video. The video shows the word “China” in Chinese. But in fact this should not be a modern simplified character. It should be the traditional characters used in ancient times. And it should be mirror reversed. As shown below: The second error appeared at 1:27 seconds…
The Challenges of Incorporating Technological Tools in Online Learning Environment
I believe everyone is new to face these challenges which are having class online; a traditional face-to-face learning environment usually involves students, the instructor, and the learning materials. But in an online learning environment, four kinds of interaction that can occur when learning takes place via the Internet: (1) learner-content, (2) learner-instructor, (3 learner-learner, and…
Reflection on the influence of movable type printing in the Renaissance and interactive design
As an interaction designer, what we have to do is to provide humans with more ways to communicate, including between people and between people with objects. And movable type printing is equivalent to the ancestor of interaction. The emergence of movable type printing provides the initial interaction method for human beings. China invented movable type…
Some errors
The to demonstrate for the speech dated the invention of paper in China is “179-41 BC” But according to Ancient History Encyclopedia “Traditionally, paper was invented in the early 2nd century CE, but there is evidence it was much earlier. ” and “The traditional date for the invention of more refined paper has long been 105…
The Renaissance of human history
Arguably the most significant milestone of human history is the creation of movable type and its major development in the renaissance. Because of the mass production of book printing, knowledge is accessible for anyone whether you were rich or not. To me, that perhaps is the most powerful tool of both books and Interaction Design:…
Errors
In the video, ‘History of Books”, speaker claims that papyrus was made in 4000 BC. However, according to the research done by Pierre Tallet, posted on Smithsonian magazine, oldest papyrus was made in 2600 BC. The speaker also claims that moveable type was made by Johannes Gutenberg in 16th century. But based on the lecture…
Finding Errors
In the 0:36 second of the video, the video showed a picture of codex and captioned the origin time of codex as 4th century. But the codex actually originated in the first century, and only became popular until the 6th century. (1) The second error appeared in the 0:52 second. The cartoon is showing two…
HUMAN CENTRED
It’s important to have a basic background understanding of the importance of moveable type and the Renaissance as a time of invention, as an Interaction Designer. Moveable typeface led to the spread of words and books to the wide spectrum of society, which enabled people to interact with each other with letters. This achievement eventually…
How to create a good communication environment
People’s ability to obtain information from visual communication varies greatly. The focus is on self-controlled learning activities, which depend on the author’s accessibility and transparency of the information content and the learner’s consideration of personal status and recognition capabilities. This article talks about how to create a better learning environment on the screen. First determine…