- Interactive information as a form of communication.
- Visual design, including color theory, space, and foreground/background relationships.
- Visual and conceptual layering.
- The reference as a metadisciplinary structure.
- Practices of collecting from Duchamp to Vaneevar Bush to Borges to DJ Spooky are investigated.
- The problem of how to represent large collections in ways that promote cognition and communication.
- Ontologies, maps, navigation, and information visualiztion as functional semiotic means for structuring interactive information.
- The design of dynamic navigation as an approach addressing the large collections problem.
You will learn to specify problems, as well as to solve them. By peforming the assignments, you will build yourself a web-accessible interactive portfolio.
New for 2009: We will use
Windows Presentation Foundation
to create state-of-the-art dynamic
information visualization.
Most HTML programming will be replaced by WPF.
Conceptual material will remain.
Thanks to TETC for learning modules development support.
Professor Andruid Kerne