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       Information Design Journal



CONTENTS (Volume 11, issue 2+3):
- Publishers's Note
- Editorial: Information Design in Transition
   (Piet Westendorp and Karel van der Waarde)

ARTICLES
- Serifs, sans serifs and infant characters in children's
   reading books (Sue Walker and Linda Reynolds)

- Designing documents for train operators: A contribution to
   graphic design from cultural psychology (Silvia Torsi,
   Antonio Rizzo, Simone Pozzi and Luca Save)

- The graphical forms, visual-verbal resonances, meanings and
   semiosis of the Red Cross symbols: Implications for symbol-type
   decisions (Havi Murungi, Ian McLaren, Robert Chen)

- An overview of the unied modeling language and diagrammatic
   modeling language design in software engineering (Naci Akk=F8k)

- The 'magic number 5': Is it enough for web testing? (Carol Barnum)

- Conceptual maps in e-learning: How map-based interfaces help the
   contextualization of information and the structuring of knowledge
   (Jacopo Armani, Andrea Rocci)

- Technical communication or information design?: A merging
   of professions (Alison Reynolds)

- Information for conscious choice (Dino Karabeg)

- The construction of records in Dutch police interrogations
  (Martha L. Komter)


CONFERENCE - INFODESIGN ED:
The University of Reading, UK, 16-17 September 2002
- Introduction (Sue Walker)

- Breaking barriers: A model for educating a university community
   (Frank Cronk, Jill Dacey, Colleen Taugher)

- Design education of the lay client (Liv Merete Nielsen)

- Storytelling and the personalization of information: A way to
   teach user-based information design (Judith Moldenhauer)


INFODESIGN CAFE SUMMARY:
- Upside down maps (Michael Andrews)


EXHIBITION REVIEW:
- Birth/Death of information as art: 'BodyWorlds' (Aaron Marcus)


CASE STUDY:
- Designing an interactive decision explorer
   (Patricia Wright, Christopher John, Steve Belt)


DOCUMENT DESIGN RESEARCH WATCH:
- Compiled by: Wilbert Spooren; Geert Jacobs; Elisabet Le;
   J. Piet Verckens; Hans Hoeken


BOOKREVIEWS:
- "Editorial Design for Print and Electronic Media"
    by Yolanda Zappaterra (Yateendra Joshi)

- "Mapping: An Illustrated Guide to Graphic
    Navigational Systems" by Roger Fawcett-Tang and
    William Owen (Lisa Yayla)

- "Graphic Design & Reading: Explorations of an
    Uneasy Relationship" by Gunnar Swanson (ed.)
    (R. Roger Remington)

- "Information Graphics and Visual Clues: Communicating
    Information through Graphic Design" by Ronnie Lipton
    (Cynthia Rohner)

- "Information Design: An Introduction" by Rune Pettersson
    (Michael J. Salvo)

- "Typography and Language in Everyday Life: Prescription
    and Practice" by Sue Walker (David Sless)


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