10th Homework

2008.05.21 - 05.23

"Public & Privacy"

This time we talked about "public & privacy". This time's subject was little easy to me, and very interesting. Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differs between cultures and individuals, but share basic common themes. Privacy is sometimes related to anonymity, the wish to remain unnoticed or unidentified in the public realm. When something is private to a person, it usually means there is something within them that is considered inherently special or personally sensitive. The degree to which private information is exposed therefore depends on how the public will receive this information, which differs between places and over time. Privacy can be seen as an aspect of security one in which trade-offs between the interests of one group and another can become particularly clear.
For example, everything we did in public was replayed back to us on film, we would probably have a compulsion to leave the country. Why? Because even though we are in a public place, generally we don't wander around thinking our movements are under surveillance by others 24 hours a day - even though we can see CCTV cameras all over the high street. Even in a public place, we feel we have some privacy. But how much privacy do we actually have? We always talk about our privacy. I think privacy is really confusing things. If we try to keep our privacy, this society will crushed easier much better than this time. So, I think our privacy is really important but if we more endure about our damage our society will better society.

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9th Homework

2008.05.14 - 05.16

"Human"

This week's main idea was "Human".
But I think actually main idea was "mediation". Mediation means a form of alternative dispute resolution, also refers to appropriate dispute resolution, and aims to assist two (or more) disputants in reaching an agreement. Whether an agreement results or not, and whatever the content of that agreement, if any, the parties themselves determine rather than accepting something imposed by a third party. The disputes may involve states, organizations, communities, individuals or other representatives with a vested interest in the outcome.Mediators use appropriate techniques and skills to open and/or improve dialogue between disputants, aiming to help the parties reach an agreement (with concrete effects) on the disputed matter. Normally, all parties must view the mediator as impartial.Disputants may use mediation in a variety of disputes, such as commercial, legal, diplomatic, workplace, community and family matters.Consider a variable X that is assumed to affect another variable Y. The variable X is called the initial variable and the variable that it causes or Y is called the outcome. In diagrammatic form, the unmediated model is



The effect of X on Y may be mediated by a process or mediating variable M, and the variable X may still affect Y. Path c is called the total effect. The mediated model is



Lilke this. It was what I taughted by Dr.Yoon. This week's lesson was little difficult. Everyday I study for better speaking & listening english. But it doesn't work well. I believe that I can do it well someday. This semester is really hard to me but I'll keep trying to be a wonderful & excellent student. Always I know you went through a lot.
Thank you !

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8th Homework

2008.05.07 - 05.09

"Computer Games "

This class was about Computer games. Thinkin about computer games I first think about 'Star Craft'. That game is only I do. And that game is very famous and people of all over the world do . A computer game (also known as a computer game or simply PC game) is a video game played on a personal computer, rather than on a video game console or arcade machine. Computer games have evolved from the simple graphics and gameplay of early titles like Spacewar!, to a wide range of more visually advanced titles.
PC games are created by one or more game developers, often in conjunction with other specialists (such as game artists) and either published independently or through a third party publisher. They may then be distributed on physical media such as DVDs and CDs, as Internet-downloadable shareware, or through online delivery services such as Direct2Drive and Steam. PC games often require specialized hardware in the user's computer in order to play, such as a specific generation of graphics processing unit or an Internet connection for online play, although these system requirements vary from game to game.
Computer games and game addiction are often the subject of criticism, focusing largely on the influence of objectionable content and prolonged gameplay on minors. The Entertainment Software Association and other groups maintain that parents are responsible for moderating their children's behaviour, although the controversy has prompted attempts to control the sale of certain games in the United States. The game that Dr.Yoon talked about in class looks like wery funny. I wanna do that game. But I'll endure because I have to do many things. :)

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7th Homework

2008.04.30 - 05.02

"Computer-aid"

This class was about Human-computer interaction called HCI.
There is currently no agreed upon definition of the range of topics which form the area of human-computer interaction. Yet we need a characterization of the field if we are to derive and develop educational materials for it. Therefore we offer a working definition that at least permits us to get down to the practical work of deciding what is to be taught: Human-computer interaction is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them. HCI is just part of computer science.
However we didn’t look around HCI in it’s perspective, we did HCI in art, ethic perspective. Key point of it is that people often interact with media technologies as though the technologies were people. Then ironical thing was that HCI related to ethics. Moreover aesthetics and design do too.
Human-computer interaction studies a human and a machine in communication, it draws from supporting knowledge on both the machine and the human side. On the machine side, techniques in computer graphics, operating systems, programming languages, and development environments are relevant. On the human side, communication theory, graphic and industrial design disciplines, linguistics, social sciences, cognitive psychology, and human performance are relevant. And, of course, engineering and design methods are relevant.

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