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cheers
martin
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martin dodge
cyber geography research
centre for advanced spatial analysis, university college london
gower street london, wc1e 6bt, united kingdom
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http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk http://www.cybergeography.org
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1) Information Design Journal. Volume 9, issue 2+3
2) Social navigation of information space.
(Edited by: Alan J. Munro, Kristina Hook, David Benyon)
3) Information visualization: perception for design.
(Colin Ware)
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1) TITLE: Information Design Journal.
Volume 9, double issue 2 and 3
CONTENTS:
Articles:
- Clive Richards: Getting the picture: diagram design and the
information revolution
- Gerry Leonidas: In search of the digital Cresci: Don Knuth's
Digital typography
- Jorge Frascara: Information design and cultural difference
- Colette Miller and David Lewis: Wayfinding in complex
healthcare sites
- Nadjet Bouayad-Agha, Donia Scott and Richard Power: Integrating
content and style in documents: a case study of patient
information leaflets
- Michael Macdonald-Ross and Robert Waller: The transformer
revisited
- R.H.R. Harper: Getting to grips with information: using
sociological case materials to aid the design of document
technologies
Bookreviews:
- Council of Biology Editors, Scientific style and format:
the CBE manual for authors, editors, and publishers, reviewed
by Yateendra Joshi
- Otto Neurath, Gesammelte bildpaedagogische Schriften, reviewed
by Heiner Jacob
- Geoffrey K. Pullum and William A. Ladusaw, Phonetic symbol
guide, reviewed by Fred Eade
- Geoffrey Nunberg (editor), The future of the book, reviewed
by Andrew Dillon
- Gui Bonsiepe, Interface: an approach to design, and Jan van
Toorn (editor), Design beyond Design, reviewed by Robin Kinross
- Paul Arthur and Romedi Passini, Wayfinding: people, signs,
and architecture, reviewed by Phil Gendall
- Rein Houkes (editor), Information design and infographics,
reviewed by Jason Clark
- Robert E Horn, Visual Language: Global Communication for the
21st Century, reviewed by David Lewis
This issue can be ordered from:
John Benjamins Publishing Company (Amsterdam/Philadelphia)
http://www.benjamins.nl/jbp [click on 'new journals']
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Institutional/Library/Company price: NLG 120 (USA $ 60)
For private use only: NLG 71 (incl. VAT) (USA $ 35.50)
Postage included. Private orders to be prepaid.
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2) TITLE: Social navigation of information space.
EDITORS: Alan J. Munro, Kristina Hook, David Benyon.
SUMMARY: Social navigation is a vibrant new field which
examines how we navigate information spaces in "real"
and "virtual" environments, how we orient and guide
ourselves, and how we interact with others to find our
way. This approach brings a new way of thinking about
how we design information spaces, emphasising our need
to collaborate with others, and follow the trails of
their activities in these spaces.
CONTENTS:
Table of Contents
List of contributors
1 Footprints in the snow (A. Munro, K. Hook, D. Benyon)
2 Where the footprints lead: tracking down other roles for
social navigation (P. Dourish)
3 Social connotations of space in the design for virtual
communities and social navigation (A. Dieberger)
4 Informatics, architecture and language (M. Chalmers)
5 Information that counts: a sociological view of information
navigation (R.H.R. Harper)
6 Screen scenery: transposing aesthetic principles from real to
electronic environments (M. Buscher, J. Hughes)
7 Navigation the virtual landscape: co-ordinating the shared use
of space (P. Jeffrey, G. Mark)
8 Spaces, places, landscapes and views: experiential design of
shared information spaces (J.A. Waterworth)
9 The conceptual structure of information space (P.P. Maglio, T.
Matlock)
10 A contrast between information navigation and social
navigation in virtual worlds (P. Rankin, R. Spence)
11 Understanding representations of space: a comparison of
visualisation techniques in mainstream cinema and computer
interfaces (P. Persson)
12 The role of wearables in social navigation (Odd-Wiking Rahlff,
R. Kenneth Rolfsen, J. Herstad)
13 Evaluating adaptive navigation support (K. Hook, M. Svensson)
14 Footsteps from the garden - arcadian knowledge spaces (A.
McGrath, A. Munro)
References
Index
Softcover, 224 pages
Dimensions: 0.61 x 9.26 x 6.15 inches; 1,5 x 23,5 x 15,6 cm
Price: USA $ 64.95
Published: 1999
Publisher: Springer (London)
ISBN: 1-85233-090-2
Webpages about this book:
http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn=1852330902
http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/search_book.pl?isbn=1-85233-090-2
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3) TITLE: Information visualization: perception for design.
AUTHOR: Colin Ware
SUMMARY: This book combines a strictly scientific approach to
human perception with a practical concern for the
rules governing the effective visual presentation of
information. Surveying the research of psychologists
and neurophysiologists, the author isolates key
principles at work in vision and perception, and from
them, derives specific, effective visualization
techniques, suitable for a wide range of scenarios.
Information Visualization transcends the often
divergent approaches to visualization taken by
individual disciplines. It will prove a fascinating,
practical resource for anyone who uses graphical
presentation as a key to successful analysis and
communication.
CONTENTS:
1 Foundation for a science of data visualization
2 The environment, optics, resolution and the display
3 Lightness, brightness, contrast and constancy
4 Color
5 Visual attention and information that pops Out
6 Static and moving patterns
7 Visual objects and data objects
8 Space perception and 3D data display
9 Images and words
10 Visually mediated interaction with data
Hardcover, 384 pages
Dimensions: 0.97 x 9.23 x 7.38 inches; 2,5 x 23,5 x 18,7 cm
Price: USA $ 59.95
Published: 2000
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (San Francisco, CA)
ISBN: 1558605118
Webpages about this book:
http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn=1558605118
http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/catalog.asp?ISBN=1-55860-511-8
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