Ernesto Arias / Gerhard Fischer Fall 97, Information
Society Course
Assignment 3
due: September 22nd in class
Read Chapter 5 in the book by Simon!
- Summarize (on half a page or less) what you consider the most
important issues discussed in the chapter)
- Describe two different design activities
- briefly describe the most important characteristics of each
design activity named
- compare your different design activities (in which way are
they the same; in which way are they different?)
Read Chapter 6 in the book by Simon!
- Summarize (on half a page or less) what you consider the most
important issues discussed in the chapter
- Discuss and do:
- Finding the limiting resource - "a design representation
suitable to a world in which the scarce factor is information
may be exactly the wrong one for a world in which the scarce factor
is attention!"
- give examples which illustrate this observation
- describe methodologies and techniques how to overcome this
problem