Information Visualization
When Vannevar Bush wrote the following article in the summer of 1945, he prefigured much of the structure and function of the Internet, and data handling as we know them today.
Create an interface (or device with an interface) that offers a unique way of accessing and/or utilizing data in a way that is not currently available. This conception should not be limited by any perceived technical constraints. You may imagine technologies that do not exist, databases that do not exist, ways and means of accessing data that does not exist. Imagine that this interface will be created 10 years in the future.
To illustrate your concept for the class, create a 2-4 minute animated, interactive mockup in Flash or Processing. This presentation should illuminate aspects of the interface that are central to the interaction between the interface and the user.
Examples:
examples from Nathan Shedroff’s book experience design
Guidelines:
- The envisioned interface should be your conception of what an interface could be in ten years.
- The interface must represent the interaction between a human and a computer.
- The interaction must represent some kind of interface with a data set (database).
The visualization of the data should permit the following actions:
- Overview
- Zoom & Filter
- Details on demand
The following questions must be answered in your presentation:
- How is information presented to the user?
- How is information shared by the user?
- What type of communication is possible by the user? By the computer? Between one user and another user?
- What metaphor is used to organize the experience?
Turn in your animation/.fla file.
Project 2 Due: Feb 27th
