Dear Don,
Thanks for posting your paper.
And thanks for your comment on my capacity to locate citations. Alas, I’m not as quick to find appropriate documentation as it may sometimes seem. The citations may look easy when they pop up on the screen, but it takes work to find and deploy them.
Even when I reply on a topic that I know well, I still review the literature. I often draw on citations I have at hand following the quick review. I keep meaning to use EndNote, but I don’t. I gather my citations the old-fashioned way. I write, edit, and re-write most posts before sending them on. Without comparing my results to the artistry of Fred Astaire, I often think of how much work Astaire put into memorable on-screen moments.
What seems easy and effortless in five minutes on screen usually took Astaire weeks to develop and rehearse. John Mueller’s (1988) book describes the process. Wikipedia quotes Mueller extensively in explaining how Astaire worked. (It’s the British edition of Mueller’s book, both, alas, out of print.)
Astaire’s seemingly effortless dance is in reality a philosophical achievement, as Stanley Cavell (2005: 61-82) notes in a brilliant essay, “Fred Astaire Asserts the Right to Praise.” So it is with the effective use and deployment of cited literature.
It takes real work to make things look easy.
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji University in Cooperation with Elsevier | URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/
Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University Distinguished Professor | Centre for Design Innovation | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia
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References
Cavell, Stanley. 2005. “Fred Astaire Asserts the Right to Praise.” In: Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, pp. 61-82.
Mueller, John E. 1988. Astaire Dancing. New York: Random House.
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Don Norman wrote:
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You want references? Sigh. Ken Friedman seems always able to pull up several screen loads of references. For me, it requires hard work. I've published a lot on these topics in the Cognitive Science and psychology journals, but self-references might not be convincing.
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