Monday, October 8, 2012

Article Reading: Non-obvious Observation

Video for observation study

The video we created as a group is about walking from the entrance of Annex and borrow a DVD. We do not have any restrictions to this scenario  We as a group agree on the following route: walk from the entrance of Annex Library, take the stairs to level 4, borrow a DVD, return DVD, and walk back to the entrance. This is very boring route, however, we can do whatever we want during all the time. It might be hard to distinguish the difference or identify our group members from those videos. As what I said before, I will give few hints here. Look for mirror reflections, this is a great way to identify the group members. 

Non-obvious things

There are many non-obvious thing that we can discover more about a person. As the author of "Secret Life of Pronouns" mentioned Sherlock Holmes, he is a great example of whom discover non-obvious things. The first chapter basically talks about how the author come up with a word counting program. As what I have read, I understand the way people talks would be one of the most important way we get information of a person from. The word choices, emotions, or even categories of a word would matters. Another way I might be take note about is to look at a person's gesture and the way they stands. One example would be crossing hand on their own chest would mean they are conservative on the topic they are talking about. 



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