Learning with polyphony: AmpDamp

Acker, Amelia; Chalmers, Melissa; Burton, Matt; Wythoff, Grant; Lodato, Thomas

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Title

Learning with polyphony: AmpDamp

Author(s)

• Acker, Amelia
• Chalmers, Melissa
• Burton, Matt
• Wythoff, Grant
• Lodato, Thomas

Issue Date

2013-02

Keyword(s)

• polyphony
• design
• value
• education
• human-computer interaction
• social computing

Abstract

With exponential increases of information flows on social media platforms, user experiences have become fragmented, cacophonous, and often overwhelming. Such “noise” makes learning on these platforms difficult. By contrast, the principle of polyphony frames learning with social media as a graceful, intentional threading together of multiple voices. In this paper we describe AmpDamp, a design concept for orchestrating polyphony in social media environments. Connecting a physical knob to a browser extension, AmpDamp translates the gestures of turning up (amplifying) and turning down (dampening) into a dynamic orchestration of the “volume” of a user’s social media feed. By focusing on issues of granularity and temporality, we position polyphony as an entry point into incorporating the values of control and curation into learning experiences using social media.

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iSchools

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42533

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/13525

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Copyright © 2013 is held by the authors. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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