This document provides an overview of media, design, and adaptive thinking from the perspective of Sheng Kai Tang, a user experience designer at asusDESIGN. It first introduces Tang and their educational and professional background. It then discusses media through poetic passages in Chinese and defines design as involving problem solving, decision making, reflection, craftsmanship, and thinking about complexity and interaction. The document notes the integration of media and design and lists concepts like active sensing, dynamic decision making, and pattern recognition as aspects of adaptive thinking. It concludes by thanking the reader and providing a link to Tang's website for more information.

1. Media, Design and Adaptive Thinking
Sheng Kai Tang (Tony)

2. Who am I?

3. User Experience Designer, asusDESIGN
2008~now
2008 Master Degree in Computational Design, CMU
2005~2008 PhD program in Computational Design, CMU
2003 Visiting student, Harvard
2001~2002 PhD program in Architecture, NCTU
1999~2001 Master Degree in Applied Art, NCTU
1994~1999 Bachelor Degree in Architecture, FCU

4. User Experience Designer, asusDESIGN
2008~now
2008 Master Degree in Computational Design, CMU
2005~2008 PhD program in Computational Design, CMU
2003 Visiting student, Harvard
2001~2002 PhD program in Architecture, NCTU
1999~2001 Master Degree in Applied Art, NCTU
1994~1999 Bachelor Degree in Architecture, FCU

5. What is Media?

7. 朝辭白帝彩雲間，
千里江陵一日還，
兩岸猿聲啼不住，
輕舟已過萬重山。

9. What is Media?

11. 胡旋女，胡旋女。心應弦，手應鼓。
弦鼓一聲雙袖舉， 回雪飄颻轉蓬舞。
左旋右轉不知疲，千匝萬周無已時。
人間物類無可比，奔車輪緩旋風遲。
曲終再拜謝天子，天子為之微啟齒。
胡旋女，出康居，徒勞東來萬里餘。

16. What is Design?

17. Problem Solving

21. Ill defined  Well Defined

24. A Search Processing

27. Decision Making

30. Media + Design

31. Substantiation

45. Reflection-in-action

54. Craftsmanship

67. Thinking of Complexity

75. Thinking of Interaction

76. Smart Environment

82. Architectural Robotics

83. Source: CODE LAB, CMU

84. Source: CODE LAB, CMU

85. Source: CODE LAB, CMU

86. Source: Cornell U.

88. Adaptive Thinking

89. Active Sensing

101. Dynamic Decision Making

112. Flexible-functionality

160. Future Media

161. Integration

162. (Hudson and Mankoff, 2006)

163. Pattern Recognition

165. Finite State Machine

167. Soft + Ambiguity

168. Thanks!!
www.tonytang2009.com