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[id NOTES & NEWS]
[23.8.2005]
Gjestforelesning (Dr. Jose Macias) om End User Development kan dere finne
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Thematically information design can be viewed
as composed of the following three main areas that also represent the main
research areas in the group (see the figure below):
Nature of Information, which includes themes like
philosophical and theoretical foundations of information, norms of
information, uses/misuses/affects and ethics of information etc. It covers foundational
studies of the nature of information as such and information design as a
field. Some interesting foundational areas often included in the
group’s discussions are cognitive/theoretical views like classical
categorization vs. prototypicality, views on linguistic semantics like
pragmatics, visual literacy and its meaning etc.
Representation of Information, which takes as its focus how
information is structured cognitively and/or computationally. It thus deals
with subjects like mental/conceptual models of information like cognitive
models of comprehension and reasoning, or with modeling information for an
alternative Web like the Semantic Web or for other purposes like for
associative search or representation as in topic maps etc. Information representation
covers our favorite topics like multiple views of information and their
re-integration into a whole. It overlaps somewhat with the nature of
information in areas like representational (or modeling) paradigms and their
roles and in epistemological/ontological foundations of information and its
representation.
Expression of Information is the theme that addresses the
actual design of a representation. It covers areas like how to produce
"correct" presentations for example on the web (layout models,
perceptive/cognitive models), where “correctness” as well as
design criteria are decided by design goals and usage areas. Example
goals/criteria are teaching or comprehension in an area like instructional design, or ease
of navigation, efficient interaction
or visual impetus in an area like Web-design etc.
In addition to these
three foundational themes, there is of course a theme that covers the historical and sociological aspects of
information as well as information/communication/media sciences and technologies.
Questions related to the potentials of properly designed information and
consequences upon society and culture of introducing
information/communication technologies are covered in this thematic area.
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