Re: [ba-unrev-talk] Extending the 3 R's
Actually, if you just go to
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/papers/hypermodality/ (01)
without the travel1.htm bit you get a table contents for Jay Lemke's
work.
"Travels in Hypermodality
-- Working Draft --
Jay L. Lemke
City University of New York" (02)
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Peter (03)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Jones" <ppj@concept67.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <ba-unrev-talk@bootstrap.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [ba-unrev-talk] Extending the 3 R's (04)
>
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/papers/hypermodality/
> travels1.htm
> "Multiplying Modalities:
> Presentational, Orientational, and Organizational Meaning
>
> "If we are concerned with the kinds of meaning that can be made with
> hypermedia, we need to examine two kinds resources that extend beyond
> the affordances of plain text. One of these is the semantics of
> hypertextuality, which will be considered in the next section. The
other
> is the semiotics of multimedia, particularly the integration of verbal
> and visual resources for meaning.
>
> " I take the position that, fundamentally, all semiosis is multimodal
> (cf. Kress & van Leeuwen 1996, Mitchell 1994): you cannot make meaning
> that is construable through only one analytically distinguishable
> semiotic resource system. Even if for many purposes we analytically
> distinguish the linguistic semiotic resource system from that of
> depiction or visual-graphic presentations, and both from others such
as
> the music-sound system or the behavioral-action system, the fact that
> all signifiers are material phenomena means that their signifying
> potential cannot be exhausted by any one system of contrasting
features
> for making and analyzing meaning."
>
> [...]
>
> --
> Peter
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "larens imanyuel" <larensi@yahoo.com>
> To: "Unfinished Revolution" <ba-unrev-talk@bootstrap.org>; "Annalee
> Saxenian" <anno@sims.berkeley.edu>
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 8:29 PM
> Subject: [ba-unrev-talk] Extending the 3 R's
>
>
> > Part of the unfinished revolution is to use the extra
> > degrees of freedom of computer-human interfacing to
> > extend our basic 2-D recording techniques based on our
> > long use of pen and paper. My keyboard-mouse
> > interface
> > incorporates a pair of 2-D key arrangements derived
> > from the typewriter and adding machine of a century
> > ago
> > plus a 2-D pointing mechanism. With this I spend a
> > lot
> > of time reading images of ink-on-paper in .pdf format.
> >
> > Last week I was at a workshop on Finsler Geometry at
> > which the lecturers either used oral-whiteboard mode
> > or oral-transparency mode, while spending a fair
> > amount
> > of time gesturing and drawing in the air with their
> > hands to convey the geometrical meaning of what they
> > were saying. The hand motions won't be in the printed
> > reports of the meetings.
> >
> > Can anyone give me references to good analyses of how
> > to create a well integrated system of communication
> > that:
> >
> > 1) Is fast and flexible, using the many degrees of
> > freedom of the hands and limbs (and voice),
> >
> > 2) Incorporates versions of the dominant current modes
> > of recording as special cases to allow economic
> > transition to the new system,
> >
> > 3) Has both reliable logographic and phonetic modes
> > of writing that can incorporate and extend our
> > contemporary mathematical and alphanumeric symbols,
> >
> > 4) Allows tagging of points in a higher dimensional
> > geometrical space of navigation with writing to
> > create a mathematically effective virtual reality,
> >
> > 5) Is physically arranged to allow effective team
> > communication and mobility within complex
> > intelligent-machine rich environments, and
> >
> > 6) Has good consensus-building social features?
> >
> > I see that this is possible in the near future,
> > because computing technology is reaching the point
> > where the necessary interfacing calculations can be
> > done in real time. The more difficult part is
> > creating a credible business and organizational
> > model to deal with the costs of switching to the new
> > system. Part of such a model needs to be an
> > explanation of how the new system is an effective tool
> > for allowing people to understand more advanced
> > mathematics than is in the customary curriculum, and
> > thus is a good tool for developing the bio-, nano-,
> > and materials technology of the coming century.
> >
> > Another part of the social problem is to overcome the
> > mythology that the next dominant computer-human
> > interface will be "invisible" and "easy" to learn.
> > Cultures embellish their empowering technologies with
> > games, disciplines and art, so that people are guided
> > to learning how to use the power inherent in the
> > technologies. The next computer-human interface will
> > be no exception. It will lead to more collaborative
> > work and to more specialization. Since it will enhance
> > both desirable features and undesirable aspects of our
> > technology culture, a realistic anthropological view
> > is needed in analyses.
> >
> > Since I already understand most of the basic
> > mathematics, science, and engineering of the problem,
> > I am particularly looking for concepts of how best to
> > merge current informational techniques and efforts
> > into the new system.
> >
> > larens imanyuel
> >
> >
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>
> (05)