Schedule

Thu 2:30 pm – 6:30 pm

AVA 208 (Computing Lab)

Week 01 – introduction

• Class introduction
• What is information?
• Visualize your timetable exercise
• Collect shopping mall directories (homework)

Week 02 – spatial information

• What is space?
• Semiology of graphics
• Present and critique the shopping mall directories
• Choose student lecture topics (a group of 3-4 students)
• Map of a stranger exercise
• Choose a market place for the directory (homework)

Week 03 – map and network

• Psycho-geography and social fiction
• Rule based navigation around the campus
• Studies of map

Week 04 – data as space

• Presentation of shopping directory
• Data as space, perception and navigation
• Google map exercise
• Find a favorite MP3 (homework)

Week 05 – temporal information

• Listen to your music
• Describe your music with text
• Structural information about music (volume, pitch, timbre, note, etc.)
• Time series
• Student lecture 1
• Prepare particle material for visualization (sand, rice, powder, etc. homework)

Week 06 – audio visualization

• Student lecture 2
• Describe your favorite music
• Notate your favorite music
• Find one of your favorite poem, Chinese or English (homework)

Week 07 – text visualization

• Student lecture 3
• Information about text, phonetic, syntactic, etc.
• Ways to connect text, i.e. syntax
• Meaning of text, i.e. semantics
• Visual presentation of the poem without emphasis on typography

Week 08 – data and interaction

• Student lecture 4
• Visualization and interaction
• Mapping from input to output
• Choose your final project topic (homework)

Week 09 – information representation

• Music visualization assignment presentation
• Introduction to XML
• Create your family tree
• Visualize your family tree
• Convert the tree into an XML
• Final project ideas

Week 10 – digital information

• Understand digital data
• Understand code and the process of encoding, decoding
• Network topology as code

Week 11 – project draft

• Presentation of the project ideas
• Instruction design
• Visualize narrative

Week 12 – World Wide Web

• Internet and visualization
• Final project draft presentation

Week 13 – project presentation

• Final project presentation and critique