I’ve been struggling to find a problem that feels right to address with my thesis project. My initial thesis ideas were unique in some ways, but here are a three reasons I’m back at the drawing board:<\/p>\n
1. thatgamecompany.com<\/a> Smile capturing is a new idea that might have some traction, but then again, maybe not. In the meantime, below is a partial list of people \/ topics I’ve been investigating:<\/p>\n Linda Stone – continuous partial attention —<\/p>\n On another note, I installed and played Crayon Physics<\/a> for the first time today. I also attended a talk by Joshua Spodek about Submedia World<\/a>. Both were pretty satisfying. Thanks, Syed. Thanks, ITP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been struggling to find a problem that feels right to address with my thesis project. My initial thesis ideas were unique in some ways, but here are a three reasons I’m back at the drawing board: 1. thatgamecompany.com 2. delicious-monster.com 3. geni.com Smile capturing is a new idea that might have some traction, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-thesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeeality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. delicious-monster.com<\/a>
\n3. geni.com<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMerlin Mann – getting things done
\nMartin Seligman – positive psychology
\nZoran Josipovic – nonduality
\nMihaly Csikszentmihalyi – flow theory for optimal experience
\nJenova Chen – flow in games
\nJohan Huizinga – homo ludens
\nNathan Eagle – reality mining
\nJoseph Beuys – fluxus movement
\nGuy Ernest Debord – situationists + spectacle
\nZak Miller – feel good day
\nJane McGonigal – arg’s for social good<\/p>\n