InfoD: BookWatch 39

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          In this message:
          1) Information design source book
             (Information Design Institute Japan)
          2) Making Knowledge Visible (Liz Orna)
          3) Knowledge and Information Visualization
             (Sigmar-Olaf Tergan, Tanja Keller (Eds.))
          4) Warning (Nicole Recchia)

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1)    TITLE: Information design source book

      EDITOR: Information Design Institute Japan

     DETAILS: Price: USD 75.00 / ISBN: 3-7643-7121-8 4 /
              Published: 2005 / 312 Pages /
              Publisher: Birkhaeuser

     WEBSITE: http://www.iidj.net/IDSB_E/
              http://tinyurl.com/77mou
              http://www.springeronline.com/
              (search for 'Information Design')

DESCRIPTION: The Information Design Institute Japan has translated
              and re-edited the first Japanese/English edition of the
              Information Design Source Book, published by GRAPHICSHA,
              Tokyo for the English/German version.
              This books shows an illustrated compilation of a wide
              range of information design applications.

CONTENTS:
Corporate Communication
Products/Services
Signage/Directions
Methods/Tools
Education/Research/Science

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2)    TITLE: Making Knowledge Visible

      AUTHOR: Liz Orna

     DETAILS: Price: GBP 29.95 USD 59.95 / ISBN: 0-556-08563-1 /
              Published: 2005 / 212 Pages /
              Publisher: Gower Publishing

     WEBSITE: http://www.gowerpub.com/
              http://tinyurl.com/boadw
              http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/orna-4.htm

DESCRIPTION: Information products - whether printed or electronic -
              are the essential vehicles of knowledge without which
              communication and commerce cannot take place.
              Organizations depend on them for successful internal
              and external interaction, but their potential for
              increasing business value has been largely ignored.
                   This book defines and explains information
              products and their management as the missing link
              between knowledge and information strategy on the one
              hand and design and presentation on the other. It sets
              out what information products are and how they can add
              value if part of overall strategy; shows how to audit
              what they should be doing and what they actually are
              doing for the company; and presents a change programme
              for a better management approach which enables the
              company to get full value from them.
                   The book is written for senior managers responsible
              for information and knowledge management, corporate
              communications and IT, and for information professionals,
              web developers and information designers.

CONTENTS:
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
part 1 Basic ideas
- 1 Before we begin
- 2 No business without information products
part 2 Information products in the organizational context
- 3 The business of the organization
- 4 The value that IPs add (and subtract)
- 5 The stakeholders and their interests
part 3 In support of IPs
- 6 Knowledge and information management in support of IPs
- 7 Infrastructure for IPs: information systems, technology tools
- 8 Information design, reconciler of conflicting needs
part 4 Action for IP value =AD a practical process
- 9 An information auditing approach
- 10 Making a start
- 11 Auditing information products
- 12 Into action for value from IPs
Index 205

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3)    TITLE: Knowledge and Information Visualization.
              Searching for Synergies

     EDITORS: Sigmar-Olaf Tergan, Tanja Keller

      SERIES: Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Vol.=A03426

     DETAILS: Price: EURO 52,00 / ISBN: 3-540-26921-5 /
              Published: 2005 / 385 Pages /
              Publisher: Springer

     WEBSITE: http://www.springeronline.com
              http://tinyurl.com/c4hoy

DESCRIPTION: This book presents current research and development
              work in the fields of knowledge visualization and
              information visualization. In addition to revised
              reviewed papers presented at an international workshop
              on Visual Artefacts for the Organization of Information
              and Knowledge held in Tuebingen, Germany in May 2004,
              invited papers from leading experts are included to
              round off coverage of relevant aspects.
                  The chapters are organized in topical sections
              on background, knowledge visualization, information
              visualization,  visualizing knowledge and information
              for fostering learning and instruction, and knowledge-
              oriented organization of information for fostering
              information use.

CONTENTS:
- Visualizing knowledge and information: An introduction
   (Tanja Keller and Sigmar-Olaf Tergan)
- Visual queries: The foundation of visual thinking
   (Colin Ware)
- Representational correspondence as a basic principle of
   diagram design (Christopher F. Chabris and Stephen M. Kosslyn)
- Node-link mapping principles for visualizing knowledge and
   information (Donald F. Dansereau)
- Tools for representing problems and the knowledge required to
   solve them (David H. Jonassen)
- Collaborative knowledge visualization for cross-community learning
   (Jasminko Novak and Michael Wurst)
- Modeling iteractive, 3-dimensional information visualizations
   supporting information seeking behaviors
   (Gerald Jaeschke, Martin Leissler, Matthias Hemmje)
- Visualizing information in virtual space:prospects and pitfalls
   (Marc M. Sebrechts)
- The impact of dimensionality and color coding of information
   visualizations on knowledge acquisition
   (Tanja Keller and Matthias Grimm)
- Digital concept maps for managing knowledge and information
   (Sigmar-Olaf Tergan)
- Concept maps: integrating knowledge and information visualization
   (Alberto J. Canas, Roger Carff, Greg Hill, et al.)
- Comprehensive mapping of knowledge and information resources:
   The case of webster (Sherman R. Alpert)
- Towards a framework and a model for knowledge visualization:
   Synergies between information and knowledge visualization
   (Remo Aslak Burkhard)
- ParIS =AD visualizing ideas and information in a resource-based
   learning scenario
   (Anja Neumann, Wolfgang Graeber, Sigmar-Olaf Tergan)
- LEO: A concept map based course visualization tool for instructors
   and students (John W. Coffey)
- Navigating personal information repositories with weblog authoring
   and concept mapping (Sebastian Fiedler and Priya Sharma)
- Facilitating web search with visualization and data mining
   techniques  (Young-Jin Lee)
- The role of content representations in hypermedia learning:
   Effects of task and learner variables
   (Jean-Francois Rouet, Herv=E9 Potelle, Antonine Goumi)
- Supporting self-regulated e-learning with visual topic-map-
   navigation (Andreas Rittershofer)

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4)    TITLE: Warning. Failure to buy this book could result in
              death or serious injury

      AUTHOR: Nicole Recchia

     DETAILS: Price: USD 19.95 / ISBN: 0-9725636-9-5 /
              Published: 2005 / 128 Pages /
              Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher

     WEBSITE: http://www.markbattypublisher.com/servlet/book_view?number=3D=
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DESCRIPTION: Warning labels have become ubiquitous, from take-out coffee
              cups to heavy machinery. People are constantly cautioned
              against potential injury or death by wordless pictures.
              Unnoticed, often unheeded, warning labels contain a special
              graphic language. Designed to ensure clarity of a message,
              the visual simplicity of warning labels provides for clear
              meaning, though frequently awkward and often comical.
                  Humans are reduced to stick figures, their actions
              portrayed through ellipses and arrows, as they navigate
              this danger-filled world. As they fall from ladders, get
              scorched by fire, tumble out of cranes and get fatally
              wrapped in crankshafts, the stick figures throw their hands
              in the air: a dramatically silent "Oh no!"
                  Warning is a collection of some 160 macabre warning
              labels from around the world, depicting the worst hazards
              imaginable.

CONTENTS:
Introduction
Death and disaster by:
- Electrocution
- Falling objects
- Blades
- Fire
- Crushing
- Falling
The truly bizarre.

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InfoDesign Bookwatch is compiled and edited by Piet Westendorp
and Karel van der Waarde. Suggestions for titles are welcome,
and may be sent to: [email protected]
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