Ish Rishabh sent me a very interesting article by Gurcharan Das. Ish writes that I never knew that subtitling the song might help people learn how to read. In fact, I used to find subtitling irritating. So it was interesting to note that people can form association of textual representation of a word and the [...]
Walter Ong’s book “Orality and Literacy” is a very interesting book. It shows how thinking changes when an oral language becomes a written language. To most of us — at least all those who are reading this — literacy is the way for us to think and express our thoughts. In the modern world — [...]
‘The Geography of Thought’ is a very readable and thought provoking book by Richard Nisbett. The most compelling message that one gets is that the way thought processes evolved in west and east (mostly Chinese) are not just different; they are kind of opposite of each other. Western thought focused on reduction of the environment [...]
CHI has developed in directions similar to, but not the same, SigGRPH. There are lots of people, many different types of papers, demos, posters, etc. One really well executed concept here is CHI Madness. At the beginning of the day each speaker, who will participate that day, gives a 30 second preview of his ‘talk’ [...]
Florence, Italy is one of the most famous tourist attractions in the world — and I am here for a few days to attend CHI 2008 (Computer Human Interaction). Since I had a few hours on Sunday before I get busy, I was able to be a tourist for a few hours. Took some pictures [...]