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INFO 300
Intellectual Foundations of Informatics

Course Syllabus
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Readings by Topic

  1. Informatics - Definition and Scope
  2. The History of the  Internet
  3. Representation
  4. Manipulation
  1. Classification
  2. Interfaces and Interactive Design
  3. Containers: Documents, Augmented Reality, and Ubiquitous Computing
  1. Human Values: Privacy, Security, and Property
  2. Globalization, Community, and Cultural Diversity Online
  3. Biology, Information and Computation

Readings

Nielsen, J.  (1993).  Chapter 3: Generations of user interfaces (pp. 49-70).  Usability Engineering.  Cambridge, MA: Academic Press.

Winograd, T.  (Ed.)  (1996).  Chapter 2: An interview with David Liddle: Design of the conceptual model, and Profile 2: The Alto and the Star (pp. 17-36).  Bringing Design to Software.  New York, NY: ACM Press.

Nass, C., Moon, Y., Morkes, J., Kim, E., & Fogg, B. J.  (1997).  Computers are social actors: A review of current research.  In B. Friedman (Ed.), Human Values and the Design of Computer Technology (pp. 137-162).  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Eisenberg, A.  (2000, October 20).  Mars and Venus, online.  New York Times, p. D1, D11.

Reeves, B., & Nass, C.  (2000).  Perceptual bandwidth.  Communications of the ACM, 43, 3, 65-70.

What Will Be.  Chapter 3: Where person meets machine (pp. 55-80).

Picard, R. W.  (2000).  Affective perception.  Communications of the ACM, 43, 3, 50-51.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Friedman, B., and Hagman, J.  (2002).  “I care about him as a pal”: Conceptions of robotic pets in online AIBO discussion forums.  Extended Abstracts of CHI 2002 (p. 632 – 633).