Course Schedule:
Week 1- (Aug. 31, 2004) 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. 7, 2004) 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.
- The Internet and Daily Life Pew Internet and American Life Project. 2004
Deliverables
- Wurman, Information Anxiety 2: Chapter 1
- Group Projects Introduced
- Initial Project Selection
- Research Topic Selection
Week 3 - (Sept. 14, 2004) 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. 21, 2004) 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. 28, 2004) 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. 5, 2004) 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. 12, 2004) 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".
- Garrett, J. "A visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design".
- Warner, A. "A Taxonomy Primer".
Deliverables
- Design Critiques Due
- Presentations Continue
- Group Work: Metaphors and Icons with Labels
- Group Project Plan Update - Design Critiques Assigned
Week 8 - (Oct. 19, 2004) 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
- Presentations Continue
- Group Work: Design for Navigation
Week 9 - (Oct. 26, 2004) Construction [Top]
Primary Readings -- Rosenfeld, Information Architecture: Chapters 17 & 18
Deliverables
- Paper versions of Research papers due
- Presentations Continue
- Group Project Plan Update - Design
- Class Work: Information Architecture Tools and Implications for Construction
Week 10 - (Nov. 2, 2004) 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
- Presentations continue
- Group Project Plan Update - Construction
- Presentations Continue
- Class Work: Methods and Procedures for Information Architecture
Week 11 - (Nov. 9, 2004) 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
- Web version of Research Paper Due
- 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 12 - (Nov. 16, 2004) Group Work - No Scheduled Class [Top]
Week 13 - (Nov. 23, 2004) 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 - (Nov. 30, 2004) Project Presentations
Deliverables
- Group Project Presentations
- Group Project Proposal Post-Mortem Report Web Page