Spring 1998 MAS.962 Special Topics in Media Technology:
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The Virtual Society: Identity, Interaction and Interface Design Professor Judith Donath |
Tuesdays, 11-1pm Rm. 095. Level: Grad Units: 12 Permission of instructor required |
This course will examine how virtual societies evolve, looking in particular at the role played by system- and interface-design. Topics include how identity and reputation are established, approaches to graphical representations of people, and techniques for visualizing social structures. Assignments include weekly readings, design sketches, critiques of existing systems and a final design project.
02.03 Introduction: designing environments for social interaction
02.10 Conversational interfaces and social interaction
Assignment: readings02.24 Text-based conversation: news, mail, and MUDs
Guest speaker: Stacy Horn, founder of Echo NYC
Assignment: newsgroup analysis03.03 Graphical conversations, part I
Guest speaker: Chris Edwards, designer
Assignment: preliminary design sketch03.10 Graphical conversation, part II
Assignment: completed design sketch03.17 Representing people
Assignment: readings03.31 Social visualization: sensing the virtual crowd
Assignment: design sketch04.07 On-line self-portraits: the culture of home pages
Assignment: site/reading critique04.14 Final project preview
04.28 Identity (and anonymity) on-line
Assignment: readings05.05 Augmented spaces: virtual interactions in real world spaces
Selected readings05.12 Final project review