Course Schedule:

Week 1- (Jan. 16, 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 - (Jan. 23, 2003) Information Architecture and Design Overviews

Primary Readings

• Rosenfeld, Information Architecture: Chapters 1-3
• Wurman, Information Anxiety 2: Chapters 1
• 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

• Group Projects Introduced
• Initial Project Selection
• Research Topic Selection Finalized

Week 3 - (Jan.30, 2003) Information Architecture Methodologies [ top ]

Primary Readings

• Rosenfeld, Information Architecture: Chapters 10-12
• Wurman, Information Anxiety 2: Chapters 4-7
• Van Duyne, Design of Sites Chapters 1-5

Deliverables

• Group Projects Finalized
• Research Topic Presentations Finalized
• Class Work: Project Proposal Outline

Week 4 - (Feb.6, 2003) Planning - Information Structures [ top ]

Primary Readings

• Rosenfeld, Information Architecture: Chapters 4 & 5
• Wurman, Information Anxiety 2: Chapter 2 (LATCH)
• 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

• 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 - (Feb.13, 2003) Analysis - User Modeling [ top ]

Primary Readings

• Rosenfeld, Information Architecture: Chapter 9
• Wurman, Information Anxiety 2: Chapters 14 & 15
• 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

• 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.

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

Week 6 - (Feb.20, 2003) Analysis - Browsing and Searching [ top ]

Primary Readings

• Rosenfeld, Information Architecture: Chapters 7 and 8
• Wurman, Information Anxiety 2: Chapter 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

• 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

• Research Paper in Print version due
• Presentations Continue
• Class Work: Card Sorting

Week 7 - (Feb.27, 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

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

Week 8 - (March 6, 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

• Presentations Continue
• Web version of Research Paper Due
• Group Work: Design for Navigation

Week 9 - (March 13, 2003) Enjoy your Spring Break! [ top ]

Week 10 - (March 20, 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 - (March 27, 2003)  Construction 2 [ top ]

Primary Readings

• Various Web Sites Examined in Class
• TBA

Deliverables

• Presentations Continue
• Class Work: Methods and Procedures for Information Architecture

Week 12 - (April 3, 2003) 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.

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

• Design Critiques Due
• Presentations continue
• Group Project Plan Update - Construction

Week 13 - (April 10, 2003) Group Work - No Scheduled Class [ top ]

Deliverables

Week 14 - (April 17, 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

Week 15 - (April 24, 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

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

Week 16 - (May 1) Group Project Presentations [ top ]

Primary Readings -- None

Secondary Readings -- None

Deliverables

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