Course Schedule:

Week 1- (Sept. 2, 2003) Course Overview, Introduction, Initial Group Setup

Primary Readings

Course Syllabus (reviewed in class)

Deliverables

Personal Introductions
Class Work: What is Information Architecture?
Individual paper topic selection

Week 2 - (Sept. 9, 2003) Information Architecture and Design Overviews

Primary Readings

Rosenfeld, Information Architecture: Chapters 1-3
Downes, S. What is an Information Architect?

Secondary Readings

"How Much Information?" Project.
Horrigan, John, Rainie, Lee. Getting Serious Online. Pew Internet and American Life Project. 2002

Deliverables

Wurman, Information Anxiety 2: Chapters 1
Group Projects Introduced
Initial Project Selection
Research Topic Selection Finalized

Week 3 - (Sept.16, 2003) Information Architecture Methodologies [Top]

Primary Readings

Rosenfeld, Information Architecture: Chapters 10-12
Van Duyne, Design of Sites Chapters 1-5

Deliverables

Wurman, Information Anxiety 2: Chapters 4-7
Group Projects Finalized
Research Topic Presentations Finalized
Class Work: Project Proposal Outline

Week 4 - (Sept.23, 2003) Planning - Information Structures [Top]

Primary Readings

Rosenfeld, Information Architecture: Chapters 4 & 5
Modjeska, D., & Marsh, A. (1997). Structure and Memorability of Web Sites. Toronto: Computer Science Research Institute of the University of Toronto.
Fulcher, R., Glass, B., & Leacock, M. (2001). Deliverables that Clarify, Focus, and Improve Design. Examples and resources from a talk given at the 2002 Annual Conference of the Usability Professionals' Association.

Secondary Readings

Wurman, Information Anxiety 2: Chapter 2 (LATCH)
Bernstein, M. The Limits of Structure.
Gaines, B. R., & Shaw, M. L. G. (1995). Concept Maps as Hypermedia Components. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.
McCormack, L. You Are Here: Maps 101.
Larson, K., & Czerwinski, M. (1998). Web Page Design: Implications of Memory, Structure and Scent for Information Retrieval. Paper presented at the CHI '98, Los Angeles

Deliverables

Group Proposals Due
Presentations Begin
Class Work: Planning A Site
GroupWork: Planning Project Site

Week 5 - (Sept.30, 2003) Analysis - User Modeling [Top]

Primary Readings

Rosenfeld, Information Architecture: Chapter 9
Morrison, J. B., Pirolli, P., & Card, S. K. (2001). A Taxonomic Analysis of What World Wide Web Activities Significantly Impact People's Decisions and Actions. Proceedings of CHI 2001, Seattle, WA.
Wilson, T. D. (2000). Human Information Behavior. Informing Science: Special Issue on Information Science Research, 3(2).
Millen, D. (2000). Rapid Ethnography: Time Deepening Strategies for HCI Field Research. Paper presented at the DIS '00, Brooklyn, NY.

Secondary Readings

Wurman, Information Anxiety 2: Chapters 14 & 15
Krug, Steve. "How do we really use the web?" from Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. 2000. QUE.
Smart, K. L., Rice, J. C., & Wood, L. E. (2000). Meeting the Needs of Users: Towards a Semiotic of the Web. IEEE Technology and Teamwork, 593-605.

Deliverables

Presentations Continue
Class Work: Who Will Use the Site?
Group Project Proposal Evaluation and Approval
Group Work: User Analysis for Project Site

Week 6 - (Oct. 7, 2003) Analysis - Browsing and Searching [Top]

Primary Readings

Rosenfeld, Information Architecture: Chapters 7 and 8
Choo, C. W., Detlor, B., & Turnbull, D. (2000). Information Seeking on the Web: An Integrated Model of Browsing and Searching. First Monday, 5(2).
Tauscher, L. M., & Greenberg, S. (1997). Revisitation patterns in World Wide Web navigation. Paper presented at the ACM SIGCHI '97, Atlanta, GA.

Secondary Readings

Wurman, Information Anxiety 2: Chapter 8
Bates, M. After the dot-bomb: Getting Information Retrieval Right This Time. First Monday. 2002.
Kobayashi, M., & Takeda, K. (2000). Information Retrieval on the Web. ACM Computing Surveys, 32(2).
Maglio, P., & Barrett, R. (1996). How to Build Modeling Agents to Support Web Searchers. Paper presented at the Sixth Internation Conference on User Modeling, New York.
Hearst, M. (2000). Next Generation Web Search: Setting Our Sites. Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineerin

Deliverables

Presentations Continue
Class Work: Card Sorting

Week 7 - (Oct. 14, 2003) Design - Metaphors, Graphics and Labels [Top]

Primary Readings

Rosenfeld, Information Architecture Chapter 6
Maglio, P. P., & Matlock, T. (1998). Metaphors We Surf the Web By. Paper presented at the Workshop on Personalized and Social Navigation in Information Space, Stockholm, Sweden.
Bailey, S. "Web Architects: You're your Labels".
Nielsen, J. "Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines". 1998.

Secondary Readings

Morville, P. "Building a Synonymous Search Index".
Rosenfeld, L. "Organizing Your Site from A to Z"

Deliverables

Design Critiques Due
Presentations Continue
Group Work: Metaphors and Icons with Labels
Group Project Plan Update - Design Critiques Assigned

Week 8 - (Oct 21, 2003) Group Work - No Scheduled Class [Top]

Primary Readings -- None

Secondary Readings -- None

Deliverables

Week 8 - (Oct 28, 2003) Design 2 - The Web [Top]

Primary Readings

Berners-Lee, T., Hendler, J. and Lassila, O. "The Semantic Web". Scientific American, May 2001.
Karp, T.. Art and Zen of Web Sites.
Marcus, A., Armitage, J. and Volker, F. Globalization of User-Interface Design for the Web. Proceedings from Human Factors and the Web conference, 1999.
Nielsen, J. Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability.

Secondary Readings

Berners-Lee, T.Design Issues for the World-Wide Web.
W3 Org, "Semantic Web Activity".
Hong, J. I., & Landay, J. A. (2001). WebQuilt: A Framework for Capturing and Visualizing the Web Experience. Paper presented at the WWW10, Hong Kong.
Lin, J., Newman, M. W., Hong, J. I., & Landay, J. A. (2000). DENIM: Finding a Tighter Fit Between Tools and Practice for Web Site Design. Paper presented at the CHI 2000, Seattle.
Hong, J. and Landay, J. DENIM and SILK: Informal Tools for Early Stage Web Site and UI Design.
Van Duyne - Design of Sites Chapters 6

Deliverables

Paper versions of Research papers due
Presentations Continue
Group Work: Design for Navigation

Week 10 - (Nov. 4, 2003) Construction [Top]

Primary Readings -- Rosenfeld, Information Architecture: Chapters 17 & 18

Deliverables

Presentations Continue
Group Project Plan Update - Design
Class Work: Information Architecture Tools and Implications for Construction

Week 11 - (Nov. 11, 2003) Construction 2 & Verification/Evaluation & Maintenance [Top]

Primary Readings

Rosenfeld, Information Architecture: Chapters 20 & 21
Srivastava, J., Cooley, R., Deshpande, M., & Tan, P.-N. (2000, January 2000). Web Usage Mining: Discovery and Applications of Usage Patterns from Web Data. SIGKDD Explorations, 1, 12-23.
Jansen, B. J., Spink, A., Bateman, J., & Saracevic, T. (1998, Spring, 1998). Real Life Information Retrieval: A Study of User Queries on the Web. SIGIR Forum: A Publication of the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, 32, 5-18.
Chi, Ed, Pirolli, Peter and Pitkow, Jim. The Scent of a Site: A System for Analyzing and Predicting Information Scent, Usage, and Usability of a Web Site. Proceedings of CHI 2000. ACM Press.
Silverstein, C., Henzinger, M., Marais, H., & Moricz, M. (1998). Analysis of a Very Large Web Search Engine Query Log. SIGIR Forum: A Publication of the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, 6-12.
Nielsen, J. Heuristic Evaluation.
Various Web Sites Examined in Class

Secondary Readings

Cooper, M. D. (1998). Design Considerations in Intrumenting and Monitoring Web-Based Information Retrieval Systems. Journal of the American Society of Information Science, 49(10), 903-919.
Hook, Kristina. Evaluating the Utility and Usability of an Adaptive Hypermedia System. Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 1997. ACM Press.
Atzeni, P., Giansalvatore, M., & Merialdo, P. (1997). Design and Maintenance of Data-Intensive Web Sites (RT-DIA-25-1997). Rome: Department of Information Automation.

Deliverables

Web version of Research Paper Due
Presentations continue
Group Project Plan Update - Construction
Presentations Continue
Class Work: Methods and Procedures for Information Architecture

Week 12 - (Nov. 18, 2003) Non-Web Information Architecture [Top]

Primary Readings

Rosenfeld, Information Architecture: Chapter 19
Albers, M. and Kim, L. User web browsing characteristics using palm handhelds for information retrieval.
Kim, L. and Albers, M. Web Design Issues When Searching for Information on a Small Screen Display.
Kamba, T., Elson, S. A., Harpold, T., Stamper, T., & Sukaviriya, P. N. (1996). Using small screen space more efficiently. Paper presented at the Conference on Human factors in computing systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Secondary Readings

Buchanan, G., et. al. Improving Mobile Internet Usability. 2001
Nielsen, J. "Accessible Design for Users with Disabilities". 1996

Deliverables

Presentations Continue
Group Project Plan Update - Verification and Deployment
Class Work: Information Architecture for Ubiquitous Computing, PDA and Mobile Devices (User Analysis, Design, and Paper Prototyping)
Group Project Final in-class Review

Week 13 - (Nov. 25, 2003) Advanced Information Architecture Topics [Top]

Primary Readings

McCray, A. and Gallagher, M. Principles for Digital Library Development. Communications of the ACM. Vol. 44, No. 5. 2001. pp 49-56.
Abrams, D. Baecker, R. and Chignell, M. Information Archiving with Bookmarks: Personal Web Space Construction and Organization. Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Human Interface. 1998. ACM Press.
Balasubramanian , V., & Bashian, A. (1998). Document Management and Web Technologies: Alice Marries the Mad Hatter. Communications of the ACM, 41(7), 107-115.

Secondary Readings

Peters, R. (2001). Exploring the Design Space for Personal Information Management Tools. Paper presented at CHI 2001, Seattle, WA.

Deliverables

Week 14 - (Dec. 2, 2003) Project Presentations

Deliverables

Group Project Presentations
Group Project Proposal Post-Mortem Report Web Page