MAS 963 Fundamentals: Color, shape, sound and location

Completed assignments

readings:

• Tufte, E. 1990. Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.
  There are several copies in the Lab; it is on reserve in Rotch
• Small, David. 1996. Navigating large bodies of text. IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 35, No. 3&4.
• Jacobson, N and Bender, W. 1996. Color as a determined communicationIBM Systems Journal, Vol. 35, No. 3&4.
• Arnheim, Rudolph. 1974. Art and Visual Perception. Berkeley: The University of California Press.
  chapter 2 "Shape".

assignment:

Make a sketch of a newsgroup visualization / interface. The readings should provide inspiration for thinking beyond the obvious. Some ideas you might explore (and you may well choose to address different issues instead - and do not try to address too many) include:

• How could you use small multiples to show the range in style of different newsgroups ?
• How can the text itself be the key component of the interface?

And keep these questions in mind:

• How are you depicting temporal development? Individuals? Threads?
• How are you using color? What shape does the visualization create?

This assignment is due Tuesday Sept 22 by 5:00 p.m. Please submit the URL of your sketch online.