People I met this week

Elliot: He goes to our program. For my project I need a hairy person and he seems like one so I started talking to him.

Joe: He goes to our gym. I don't know what he does but really nice guy.

JR: I met him on Path train. He is an struggling artist who tries to make it happen.

New York Times

More Americans Are Giving Up Golf
Men could not take a whole day off and play golf with their buddies becuase the idea
of the family became their priority list.


Mercury Taint Divides a Japanese Whaling Town
Catching dolphins and whales for years in Shore of Japan is finally caught up.


Protesters Attack U.S. Embassy in Belgrade
It's dangerous to be an American!

Treatment for SP

There two streams of treatment of SP

1. psychological therapy

Behavior Therapy - Social phobia treatment
Cognitive Therapy - Social phobia treatment
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT) - Social phobia treatment
Relaxation Techniques - Social phobia treatment
Hypnotherapy – Social phobia Treatment
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) – Social phobia Treatment

http://www.phobia-fear-release.com/social-phobia-treatment.html

2. medical
These are the medicines used for treatment;
Prozac
Zoloft
Paxil CR
Celexa
Lexapro

These medications all have side effects such as sexual dysfunction and sedation.
I am searching for better form of remedy.

http://www.socialfear.com/

Reason for social phobia

biological makeup
Behaviors learned from role models
Life events and experiences

http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/mental_health/social_phobia.html

Mutism???

A new word I learned "MUTISM"

A person with social phobia does not talk in social settings or situations.

Elements creating social anxiety

Being introduced to other people
Being teased or criticized
Being the center of attention
Being watched while doing something
Meeting people in authority ("important people")
Most social encounters, particularly with strangers
Making "small talk" at parties
Going around the room in a circle and having to say something

http://www.socialphobia.org/social.html#top

Social Anxiety

I found list of different scenarios of people with
social anxiety.

Some are severe enough to trap them inside their world
and not be able to get out of their disorder.

http://www.socialphobia.org/whatis.html#whatis1

Mental Illness

As I was conducting research about AD
I wanted to broaden my perspective.
I started looking for overall view of mental illness.

Social phobia which falls into category of anxiety
disorders seems to be very interesting.

I am going to conduct more research on social phobia and
what kind of solution to help patients.

http://www.aoc.state.nc.us/www/ids/Defender%20Training/2005%20Fall%20Conference/Kraus_Understanding%20Mental%20Illness.pdf

Adjustment disorder medical question

I found in Korean medical website about AD questionnaires.

http://www.kafm.or.kr/event/2004f_abstract/05.JkafmH034.pdf

Adjustment Disorder Treatment

Adjustment disorder cannot be determined by a lab test.
But some cases physical disorder/discomfort can lead into
adjustment disorder.

Here are six major check list.

Adjustment disorder with depressed mood;
Adjustment disorder with anxiety;
Adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood;
Adjustment disorder with disturbance of conduct;
Adjustment disorder with mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct;
Adjustment disorder unspecified.

Therapy session is the strongest form of treatment especially looking at family history.

http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/disorders/Adjustment.html

Analyzing Child's behavior

An American family moved to Taipei to live and their son who
is 4 years old is showing several signs of temper tantrum.

It was caused by Adjustment disorder which takes adult to deal with this
issue in 3-6 months but it could be difficult for a child.

I am getting more interested in adjustment disorder.

http://www.medhelp.org/forums/ChildBehaviorSupport/messages/83.html

Aggressive behavior from an Alzheimer's patient

One of reason much like other reason for angry behavior is similar to others.
"The person may be fatigued, confused, or in pain and unable to express or describe what he or she is feeling. When the anger is directed towards you,"
Since Alzheimer patients share somewhat similar mental state as child this can be explained.
Their only method of expressing their emotion is by showing anger or angry outburst.

http://www.zarcrom.com/users/alzheimers/4-06.html

Angry Child

one of the reason children act in such angry manner is because

"some inexplicable reason they feel that everything that happens to them is simply unfair."

"A happy child with strong self-esteem and an optimistic outlook is not so quick on the draw; she's more likely to empathize with others and can apply better problem-solving skills to frustrating situations. "

"The anger may stem from family problems (such as divorce, alcoholism, death in the family), social problems (loneliness, teasing from peers), school problems (learning difficulties, underachieving), or internal problems (such as depression). The anger can be a reaction to stress in the overwhelmed family, or can be the way the child learned to act in order to get what she wants."

http://www.enotalone.com/article/4452.html

Anti-social behaviour

I am looking more broadly on my thesis topic.
One of thing I started looking was anti-social behaviour.
Little things I used to do can also be accounted as ASB! like littering.

http://www.antisocialbehaviour.org.uk/behaviour_types/index.php

Steve Job's Presentation

I remeber taking Tom's interactive I class and he mentioned
if you can give presentation like steve jobs you can get any job.

A Summary of Principles for User-Interface Design

This academic article about UI is really helpful.
It talks about lot of different aspects of UI design.

http://www.sylvantech.com/~talin/projects/ui_design.html

Great article about interface design

This article talks about the problems with UI.
and what we can do to fix it.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/25/features/DESIGN26.php

Interface design by Jeff Han

Another future of design and future. I need to find trend to complete my
formula.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65

Intuitive design

What makes it intuitive design?
Human mind and programing cannot be in same plane.
http://www.uie.com/articles/design_intuitive/

People I met

These are some colorful characters I met this week.

Horse Surfing

Started from England.

Putting two raw natural elements together.

Stencile Art

Amazing stencil artist from LA

http://www.carmichaelgallery.com/

Graffiti in 3D space

Future of image design and art.

http://www.nextwall.net/content/projekt/taggedinmotion.php

Http://www.eyeport.co.uk

I am currently searching for any interestin visual.

Despite the contents or subject matters.

http://www.eyeport.co.uk

Chinese soccer player_ Adidas Commercial

http://www.glossyinc.com/psyop/zhengzhi.html

People I met

Since my days are consist of going to school
and do homework at home all day long.

My window of meeting new people is very limited.

The only thing I do other than homework is going
to the gym. These are the people I met there.

2008 Election

The biggest news in 2008 - US presidency election.

To get young voter's attention celebrities got together
made a music video.

Pure cheesey and cliche we all seen before.

Funny, there is no hispanic and asians appeared on this video.

http://youtube.com/user/WeCan08

Tattoo

I wanted one since I was in high school.

But my Asian lifestyle and value does not allow me
to get one. Since I am suppose to preserve body in
best possible condition and harm myself.

I found various sites describing different tattoo's
meanings

http://www.vanishingtattoo.com/tattoos_designs_symbols.htmc

The future for print is electronic

Another article written in 2005.

This article talks about termination of printed media
and development of electronic media as an alternative
solution.

http://marketing.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/109/5577.html

The future of print media

This article was wrote in back in 2000.

This was the time of the internet booming and
they look at future of printing in positive ways.

It shares same point of view as mine.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3840/is_200007/ai_n8908748

Microsoft was doing this in 2005

It's amazing Microsoft was doing this in 2005.

Projection computer!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CXVfVJKbfr4&feature=related

Another interface design

This new interface/display technology was developed by
Japanese. Another future of tehcology!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=msmLIApZuA8&feature=related

Future of interface

One of advance technology relate to
interface viewing.

I always wanted to be able to zoom in more for
better understanding of images on computer.

This can solve that problem.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4_jdn-N_wwM&feature=related

Japanese water monster

As usual Japanese did something cool and fun.

The monster looks has certain level of realism but yet
needs to work on the details to make it more
realistic.

Http://youtube.com/watch?v=YHDT8cfY6jA

HP Touch Screen

Touch screen will eventually take over the mouse and keyboard
industry.

I just wish that all the electronic can be wireless. Hate messy wires
under my desk!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=e1_CcXLnjxE

Ericsson believes Mobile TV would become popular by 2008

I found this article which written in 2006 November -
saying that cellphone users will use mobile phone as one of primary
method of tv watching medium.

Now we are in 2008, are we really
doing what the expected?

http://news.techwhack.com/4733/mobile-tv-would-become-popular-by-2008/

Trend 2008 - fashion

Last weekend was the fashion week in NYC.

What do I know about female fashion but I needed a starting point for my thesis
with regarding current trend.

Various trend for 2008 is available here.

http://blogs.glam.com/glamchic/2007/09/21/new-york-spring-2008-trends

Thesis Topic Development

After 3 weeks of thesis topic research -
I narrowed down the potential key words down to three words.

1. Future
2. Graphic design
3. Current Trend

My next step is to find common ground where all these three elements
encounter and make sense as a whole.

Jet Pack

Finally some rich dude with dream is making this possible.

Ever since I saw James Bond film I wanted to have one of these!