Ernesto Arias / Gerhard Fischer Fall 97, Information Society Course

Assignment 3

due: September 22nd in class

Read Chapter 5 in the book by Simon!

  1. Summarize (on half a page or less) what you consider the most important issues discussed in the chapter)

  2. Describe two different design activities
    1. briefly describe the most important characteristics of each design activity named

  3. 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!

  1. Summarize (on half a page or less) what you consider the most important issues discussed in the chapter

  2. Discuss and do:
    1. 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!"

  3. give examples which illustrate this observation

  4. describe methodologies and techniques how to overcome this problem