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Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces

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Submitted by RyanKaufman on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 00:44

Assignment: Thoughtless Acts

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Assignment: Thoughtless Acts
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I ride the BART often and noticed that people are using their backpacks for many things that seem thoughtless in my book... like napping.

 

Also, to continue with the BART theme, the signs along (under) the BART path were used creatively by some and thoughtlessly by many others. Dog owners have access to free "whoopsie" bags that are stored in a bird house looking box on a stop sign. Another sign is very Nietzschean; empty, except for the printed initials of some late night passerby. There's also a Safeway closeby. Shopping carts are all over the place within a block from the store, probably used by the local shopper to get the groceries home. But further from the store, there are fewer carts lying around. Generally, the further from "home" they get, the less they resemble there original character. They are left behind by one and picked up and changed by another. The paint job on the red cart was immaculate.