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Assignments
Visualization Critiques #1 handed out
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Spence Chapter 1 & Chapter 2 &illustrations for chapter 1 & illustrations for chapter 2
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Card, Mackinlay, Shneiderman Chapter 1, part 1 (pages 1-21, up to the section called "Mapping Data to Visual Form"
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Spence Chapter 3 & illustrations for Chapter 3
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Card, Mackinlay, Shneiderman Chapter 1, part 2 (pages 21-end), from "Mapping Data to Visual Form" to the end of the chapter
Due: Bring data sets to explore
Due: P1 - Project Topic and Team Members
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Required: Tufte Envisioning Information Chapter 1, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information chapter 1
Highly recommended: Tufte The Visual Display of Quantitative Information chapter 2
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Tufte Envisioning Information Chapters 2 & 4
Other readings: After the Storm, which is Tufte's principles applied to a famous visualization video (paper, video)
Assignments
due: Visualization Critiques 1 Link to the Wiki page where you will post your critique
Bring an example of a bad visualization. In teams of two, redesign.
Stephen Few examples.
Submit a lab report as usual
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Please read the Spence text, Chapter 6 intro and 6.1. Case Study 1 describes FishCal (now called DateLens). Our guest speaker Mary Czerwinski was part of this project. Please also read the online appendix to the TOCHI paper on this work, which presents the instructions and tasks that were given to study participants.
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Please read the following short readings:
Usability 101 from Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, August 25, 2003
This article has several links in it. The crucial ones to follow are the ones mentioned below. Others are optional.
Simple user testing (testing 5 users) from Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, March 19, 2000
Paper prototypes
Stills from Nielsen Norman video on Paper Prototyping
No response due. Review Spence, ch. 3 p. 29-52
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Spence Chapter 4 & illustrations for Chapter 4Due: P2 Preliminary Project Proposals (see below)
Your project proposal presentation should take 4-5 minutes, which will allow 5 minutes for discussion and then setup for the next group.
We expect all team members to take an active role in the presentation.
Your P1 project topic document should be posted on your project webpage by now.
Your P2 project proposal summary (a copy of your presentation or the equivalent) is due on your project webpage Friday Nov 3 at 1pm.
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Tufte Chapters 3
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Tufte Chapter 5
Due: P3 - Revised Description and Plan (Nov 13)
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Spence Chapter 5 & illustrations for Chapter 5
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Spence chapter 6.2 - 6.4 for Thursday
Due: Visualization Critiques 2 CANCELLED
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Spence chapter 6.5
Due: Lab report for 17-Nov
P4: Project presentations (25 minute slots): Fortune 4, iTrac
P4 - Project presentations (25 minute slots): Davynrryl, Xenia, BitFleaux
We'll summarize what we've learned, and also hand out the course evaluations.
This will be a final opportunity for people to demo their projects and to let other people try them out. There may be refreshments, if we can figure out how to do it without compromising the equipment in the computer lab.
Due: P5 - Final Project report (due by 8 am)
Due: Revised VisCritques for replacement grade (due by 5 pm)