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* InfoDesign Bookwatch * (28)
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1) Interaction design. Beyond human-computer interaction.
(Jenny Preece, Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp)
2) Visual journalism: a guide for new media professionals
(Christopher R. Harris & Paul M. Lester (Eds.))
3) Diagrammatic representation and reasoning
(M. Anderson, B. Meyer, P. Olivier (Eds.))
4) Coordination and communication using signs
(Kecheng Liu, Rodney J. Clarke, Peter Bogh Andersen,
Ronald K. Stamper (Eds.))
5) Reinventing the wheel (Jessica Helfand)
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1) TITLE: Interaction design. Beyond human-computer interaction.
AUTHORS: Jenny Preece, Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp
SUMMARY: This book provides an explanantion of the design of the
current and next generation interactive technologies,
such as the web, mobiles and wearables. These new
technologies bring additional challenges for designers
and developers - challenges that require careful
thought and a disciplined approach. The text covers a
wide range of issues, topics, and paradigms that go
beyond the traditional scope of human-computer
interaction (HCI). It focuses on how to design
interactive products that enhance and extend the way
people communicate, interact and work and it explains
how to use design and evaluation techniques for
developing interactive technologies. The book
demonstrates, through many examples, the cognitive,
social and affective issues that underpin the design of
these technologies.
CONTENTS:
- Preface
- What is interaction design?
(Interview with Gitta Saloman)
- Understanding conceptualising interaction.
(Interview with Terry Winograd)
- Understanding users.
- Understanding and designing for collaboration and
communication.
(Interview with Abigail Sellen)
- Understanding how interfaces affect users.
- The process of interaction design.
(Interview with Gillian Crampton Smith)
- Identifying needs and establishing requirements.
(Interview with Suzanne Robertson
- Design, prototyping and construction.
- User-centred approaches to interaction design.
(Interview with Karen Holtzblatt)
- Introducing evaluation.
- A framework for evaluation.
- Observing users.
(Interview with Sara Bly)
- Asking users and experts.
(Interview with Jakob Nielsen)
- Testing and modeling users.
(Interview with Ben Shneiderman)
- Doing design and evaluation in the real world:
communicators and advisory systems.
- Epilogue
Paperback, 544pp
Price: GBP 27.50
Published: Feb 2002
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0471 49278 7
Webpages about this book:
http://www.wiley.co.uk/wileychi/interactiondesign/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471492787
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2) TITLE: Visual Journalism: A Guide for New Media Professionals
EDITORS: Christopher R. Harris, Paul Martin Lester,
SUMMARY: Visual Journalism discusses the growing visual
communication field, making it the first book to
combine all of the information necessary to start
anyone on a visual communication career. This text
examines the historical context of visual journalism
while providing insights into modern-day applications
of new media processes for the new media professional.
It consolidates information from various sectors of
graphics, providing practical insight into the changing
visual profession. The book discusses topics such as
visual literacy, ethical considerations, reporting and
writing, typography and graphic design, and Internet
research.
CONTENTS:
Introduction:
- Digital convergence and the age of the visual Journalist
(P. M. Lester)
Section 1: Using visuals
1 Visual journalism: past, present, and future (P. M. Lester)
2 Visual literacy (P. M. Lester)
3 An ethical approach (P. M. Lester)
Section 2: Using photography
4 Technical considerations (C. R. Harris)
5 Documentary assignments (C. R. Harris)
6 Manipulated assignments (C. R. Harris)
Section 3: Using words
7 Reporting (S. Doig)
8 Writing (G. Grow)
Section 4: Using designs
9 Typography (J. Trumbo)
10 Graphic Design (J. Trumbo)
11 Informational graphics (P. M. Lester)
Section 5: Using multimedia
12 Visual motion (D. Mitchell)
13 Audio and motion (D. Mitchell)
14 Interactive multimedia (M. Barr)
Section 6: Using computers
15. Internet research (R. Spires)
16. Computer Applications (L. Burriss)
Conclusion: Visual journalism awaits you (C. R. Harris)
Bibliography
Paperback, 320 pp
Price: USD 50.67
Published: Feb 2002
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon/ Longman
ISBN: 0-205-32259-X
Webpages:
http://www.ablongman.com/harris
http://www.ablongman.com/catalog/book?ISBN=020532259X
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/020532259X
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3) TITLE: Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning
EDITORS: M. Anderson, B. Meyer, P. Olivier
SUMMARY: The recent rise of multimedia technology has turned
visual communication into an everyday reality and made
it necessary to achieve a better understanding of the
role of diagrams and sketches in communication and in
creative thought and problem-solving. Diagrammatic
Representation and Reasoning is a wide-ranging,
multidisciplinary overview of this area, covering
relevant research in computer science, artificial
intelligence, cognitive science and psychology.
CONTENTS:
Part I - Views of Diagrams:
1. Diagrams in the mind?
2. Knowing about Diagrams
3. A meta-taxonomy for diagram research
4. Sketches as mental reifications of theoretical scientific
treatment.
5. The fundamental design variables of diagramming.
Part II - Cognitive Aspects of Diagrams:
6. Psychological perspectives on diagrams
7. Combining semantic and cognitive accounts of diagrams
8. Tactile maps and a test of the conjoint retention hypothesis
9. Spatial abilities in problem solving in kinematics
10. Graph comprehension: the role of format, content and
individual differences
11. Graphs in print
12. The role of representation and working memory in diagrammatic
reasoning and decision-making
13. Mechanical reasoning about gear-and-belt diagrams; Do eye
movements predict performance?
14. How do designers shift their focus of attention in their own
sketches?
Part III - Formal aspects of diagrammatic reasoning:
15. Diagrammatic evaluation of visual mathematical notations
16. A topological framework for modelling diagrammatic reasoning
tasks
17. Multiple readings of pierce alpha graphs
18. On automating diagrammatic proofs of arithmetic arguments
19. On the practical semantics of mathematical diagrams
20. EnE Sentences and local extent
21. Implementing Euler/Venn reasoning
22. Visual spatial query languages: a semantics using description
logic
Part IV - Applications of diagrammatic reasoning:
23. Intelligent diagrammatic interfaces: state of the art
24. Towards diagram processing: a diagrammatic information system
25. Using diagrams to understand diagrams: a case-based approach
to diagrammatic reasoning
26. Interpreting the engineer sketch: a picture is worth a
thousand constraints
27. Diagramming research designs
28. How to build a (quite general) linguistic diagram editor
29. AVOW Diagrams: a novel representational system for
understanding electricity
30. Asbru-View: capturing complex, time-oriented plans - beyond
flow charts
31. Acting with diagrams: how to plan strategies in. two case
studies.
32. Specifying diagram languages by means of hypergraph grammars
Paperback, 584 pp
Price: EUR 79,95 / USD 89.95
Published: 2002
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1-85233-242-5
http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/search_book.pl?isbn=1-85233-242-5
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1852332425
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4) TITLE: Coordination and Communication Using Signs
(Information and Organization Design Series)
EDITORS: Kecheng Liu, Rodney J. Clarke, Peter Bogh Andersen,
Ronald K. Stamper
SUMMARY: Organisational Semiotics occupies an important niche in
the research community of human communication and
information systems. It opens up new ways of
understanding the functioning of information and
information resources in organised behavior.
This book bridges the gap between the technical and
social aspects of information systems and information
technology. The first section deals with Communication
and Pragmatics, and Organisational Systems. Section Two
concentrates on organisational systems, which may or
may not include a computer system as a component.
CONTENTS:
Editor's Preface.
- Accommodating natural language within the organisational
semiotic framework (J. Connolly)
- Means of coordination (P.B. Andersen, et al.)
- Intertextuality at work: large scale organisation of
workpractices (R.J. Clarke)
- Actability: a way to understand information systems pragmatics
(G. Goldkuhl, P.J. Agerfalk)
- Communication quality in the context of information systems and
business processes (O. Eriksson)
- Greimas' semiotics and the analysis of organisational action
(D. Robichaud)
- Considering the standard: a semiotic model of organisations
(B. van Heusden, R.J. Jorna)
- Using semiotic rramework to study social consequences of IT
(M.S.H. Heng)
- Implementing IT in production settings (S. Verjans)
- A semiotic approach to improve the design quality of
agent-based information systems (S. Chong, K. Liu)
- A semiotics approach to analyzing the information bearing
capacity of a data schema (J. Feng)
- Index
Hardcover, 272 pp
Price: EUR 132.00 / USD 120.00 / GBP 83.00
Published: June 2002
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston
ISBN: 0-7923-7509-2
http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-7923-7509-2
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0792375092
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5) TITLE: Reinventing the wheel
AUTHOR: Jessica Helfand
SUMMARY: As inventive as instructive, information wheels-or
volvelles-have been used since the fourteenth century
to measure, record, predict, and calculate everything
form time and space to military history and recipes.
This book offers and in-depth look at these unique
artifacts, which are not only clever and amusing-where
else could you dial-in ingredients to concoct 'Creamed
Oysters and Celery'?-but, Helfand argues, relevant as a
model for modern interactive design. From circular
mathematical slide rules to Captain Marvel phonetic
decoders; from nuclear bomb blast calculators to
gestational breeding planners; and from astronomical
planispheres to presidential trivia plotters,
Reinventing the Wheel demonstrates the astonishing
range and remarkable utility of these ingenious
'interactive' tools.
CONTENTS:
- Preface
- Rotation: a brief history of the wheel
- Iteration: Circular ephemera & the new century
- Speculation: Modern revolutions
- Credits
Hardcover, 160 pp
Price: USD 24.95
Published: 2002
Publisher: Winterhouse Editions/Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1568983387
Webpages about this book:
http://www.winterhouse.com/wheels/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568983387
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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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