I was reading this paper by Philip Galanter on "What is Generative Art?" and came across this (http://www.philipgalanter.com/downloads/ga2003_what_is_genart.pdf):
"Science generally proceeds in a reductive manner, the thinking being that by breaking down complicated phenomena into its figurative (or literal) atomic parts one gains predictive and explanatory power. The problem with reductionism, however, is that it is often difficult to put the pieces back together again." I was trying to relate this to what we do with complex information. We also follow the scientists way by breaking down the information into parts (reductionism) and then build correlations of these parts to each other and (try to) present the user a "organized system". I feel the systems (or application in our context) fail when we can not put these pieces together. So I would like to know, have you experienced the problem of putting these pieces back together again? or Has anyone found a good solution to this problem? or an alternative? I would like to know various viewpoints on this. -sajid ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
