Language, Poetry and Interaction Design

Speaker
Jon Kolko
Professor, Industrial and Interaction Design, Savannah College of Art and Design

When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)

Description

Interaction design is the creation of a representational dialogue between a person and a designed element (such as a product, service or system). Jon is most interested in understanding the emotional and metaphorical manifestations of these interactions in daily life, and findings ways to fold interaction design into the business processes related to industrial design. As a Professor at one of the most forward thinking art schools in the country, Jon is in the rare position of being able to attack problems related to cognitive psychology and linguistics through the filter of the arts. The ultimate goal of this inquiry is to create the framework for the design of emotionally-charged behavior as related to the use of mass produced objects.

This talk will discuss the notion of poetry in Interaction Design; it will investigate the relationships between human-made creations and language, and will attempt to identify characteristics that help frame an interaction with a product that resonates poetic.

Speaker's Bio

Jon received both his undergraduate BFA in Industrial Design as well as his Masters in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His work at Trilogy, in Austin, TX, focused on interface-level interaction design for Fortune 500 clients such as Ford, Sun and IBM. After working at several start-ups in Austin, he joined the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA in 2003.

Host
Jodi Forlizzi