University of Washington
Department of Technical Communication

TC 510   Information Design

Professor David K. Farkas

Readings

Allen, Patrick, John Bateman, and Judy Delin. “Genre and Layout Design in Multimodal Documents: Towards an Empirical Account,” American Association for Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium on Using Layout for the Generation, Analysis, or Retrieval of Documents, Cape Cod, Autumn 1999.

Berghel, Hal. “A Cyberpublishing Manifesto,” Communications of the ACM, 44 (3), 2001, pp. 17-20.

Bernstein, Mark. HypertextGardens.

Billinghurst, Mark., Kato, Hirkazu., and Poupyrev, Ivan. “The MagicBook - Moving Seamlessly between Reality and Virtuality,” Computer Graphics and Applications, 21(3), 2001, pp. 2-4.

Bush, Vannevar. “As We May Think,Atlantic Monthly 176.1 (July), 1945, pp. 101-108. A version with valuable commentary was reprinted in the ACM magazine Interactions, 3 (2), March 1996, pp. 35-46. Available at www.acm.org. Sections 6-8 are the key sections in Bush’s article.

Chandler, Daniel. “An Introduction to Genre Theory,” posted to the Web on August 7, 1997.

Chandler, Daniel. “Montaigne and the Word Processor,”posted on the Web on May 26,1997.

Clark, Ruth. “Six Principles of Effective e-Learning: What Works and Why.” The eLearning Developers’ Journal, September 10, 2002, pp. 1-8. (A summary of research by Richard Mayer.)

Communications of the ACM. The Adaptive Web, 45:5, (May 2002). Available from the ACM Digital Library at www.acm.org (Brusilovsky, Bental, Billsus, Cheverst, de Bra, and Andre).

Cooke, Lynne. "Information Acceleration and the Evolution of Visual Trends Within a Media Context." Technical Communication Quarterly 12 (2), 2003, pp. 155-181.

Cotton, Bob and Richard Oliver. "Hypermedia Applications: Education" from Understanding Hypermedia, London: Phaidon Press, 1993, pp. 88-89.

Delin, Judy, John Bateman, and Patrick Allen. "A Model of Genre in Document Layout," Information Design Journal 11(1), 2002-3, pp. 54–66.

Farkas, David K. "Explicit Structure of Print and On-Screen Document," Technical Communication Quarterly, 14 (1), 2005, pp. 9-30.

Farkas, David K. “Managing Headings in Print and Online Documents,” Proceedings of the  2002 IPCC Conference, Portland, OR, September 17-20.

Farkas, David K. “Understanding and Using PowerPoint,Proceedings of the Society for Technical Communication 52nd Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, May 8-11, 2005, pp. 313-320.

Farkas, David K. “Toward a Better Understanding of PowerPoint Deck Design,”IDJ+DD (Information Design Journal + Document Design), 14 (2), 2006, pp. 162-71.

Farkas, David K. “Hypertext and Hypermedia,” Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, Berkshire Publishing 2004, pp. 332-336. For a version with figures, see:

Farkas, David K. “The Linear-Hierarchical Model.”

Farkas, David K. and Farkas, Jean B. “Writing for the Web" (Chapter 10), in Principles of Web Design. Longman, 2002, pp. 220-240.

Farkas, David K. and Farkas, Jean B. “An Introduction to Copyright Law (Appendix B),” in Principles of Web Design. Longman, 2002.

Fisher, Lori. “Moving from Single Sourcing to Reuse with XML DITA,” Best Practices (Comtech), June 2003, pp. 63-68.

Gladwell, Malcolm. "The Social Life of Paper: Looking for Method in the Mess," The New Yorker, March 25, 2002, pp. 92-96.

Gold, Rich. “Reading PowerPoint,” in Working With Words And Images: New Steps in an Old Dance, Nancy J. Allen (ed). Ablex, 2002.

Harril, Rob. “Readers Become Part of the Action through High-Tech Mixture of Traditional Storytelling and Virtual Reality in UW's ‘Magic Book,’ ” University of Washington press release, September 12, 2000.

Heller, Steven. “Tom Suzuki, 76, a Designer Who Transformed Textbooks, Dies,” New York Times (NYTimes.com), September,12, 2006.

Horn, Robert E. “What Kinds of Writing Have a Future?” Presentation at the ACM SigDOC Conference, October 22, 2001.

Horn, Robert E. “Knowledge Mapping for Complex Social Messes,” Presentation at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, July 16, 2001. (Note: downloads slowly)

Horn, Robert E. “Structured Writing as a Paradigm,” in Instructional Development: State of the Art, Alexander Romiszowski and Charles Dills (eds). Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Educational Technology Publications, 1998.

Jackson, Randolph L. and Eileen Fagan. “Collaboration and Learning within Immersive Virtual Reality,” Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments 2000, San Francisco, California. Available from the ACM Digital Library at ACM.org.

Jansen, Carel. “Reflecting on Information Mapping: Does the Method Live Up to the Expectations?Proceedings of the 2002 IPCC Conference, Portland, OR, September 17-20.

Keep, Christopher, McLaughlin, Tim, and Parmar, Robin. The Electronic Labyrinth (written in 1993 and adapted for the World Wide Web in November 1995).

Kiernan, Vincent. “Multimedia Data Base at Carnegie Mellon Lets You ‘Interview’ Albert Einstein,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 9, 1998, p. A27.

Lee, Moon, J. “Expanding Hypertext: Does It Address Disorientation? Depends on Individuals' Adventurousness.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(3).

Mayer, Richard E. and Roxana Moreno. "Nine Ways to Reduce Cognitive Load in Multimedia Learning, Educational Psychologist, 38(1), pp. 43-52, 2003.

McCloud, Scott. “Follow that Trail” (I Can’t Stop Thinking #4).

McCloud, Scott. “Zot Online: Hearts and Minds” (Part #12).

Nelson, Theodor Holm (“Ted”). “Xanadu: Document Interconnection Enabling Re-use with Automatic Author Credit and Royalty Accounting,” Information Services & Use, 14 (1994), pp. 255-265.

Nelson, Theodor Holm (“Ted”). Excerpt from Computer Lib/Dream Machines, from The New Media Reader, ed. Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003.

Neilson, Jakob. “Reviving Advanced Hypertext.” Alertbox, January 3, 2005.

Parker, Ian. “Absolute PowerPoint,” The New Yorker, May 28, 2001, pp. 76-87.

Raban, Jonathan. Excerpt about modular writing from “The Nuclear Threat,” a review of  The Atomic Bazaar  by William Langewiesche, New York Times, May 20, 2007.

Rockley, Ann. “Dynamic Content Management,” Intercom, February 2001, pp. 28-32 and 42.

Raynes–Goldie, Kate. “Pulling Sense out of Today’s Informational Chaos: LiveJournal as a Site of Knowledge Creation and Sharing,” First Monday, 9 (12), December 2004.

Schwartz, Jonathan. “ The Level of Discourse Continues to Slide,” New York Times online (NYTimes.com), September 28, 2003.

Thompson, Clive. “PowerPoint Makes You Dumb,” New York Times online (NYTimes.com), December 14, 2003.

Tracey, J. R., D.E. Rugh, and W.S. Starkey. Sequential Thematic Organization of Publications (STOP), Internal report for the Hughes Aircraft Company, 1965, reprinted in the Journal of Computer Documentation, 23 (3), August 1999. Available from the ACM Digital Library at ACM.org.

Tversky, B., J .B. Morrison, & M. Betrancourt. (2002). “Animation: Can it facilitate?” International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 57, pp. 247-262.

Walker, Randall C., Phil Schloss, Charles A. Vogel, Adam S. Gordon, Charles R. Fletcher, and Stan Walker, “Visual-Syntactic Text Formatting: Theoretical Basis and Empirical Evidence for Impact on Human Reading.” Proceedings of the 2007 International Professional Communication Conference, Seattle, Washington, October 1-3. See also the annotated PowerPoint deck WalkerVSTF-IPCC07.

Wei, Carolyn, Brandon Maust, Jennifer Barrick, Elizabeth Cuddihy, and Jan Spyridakis. “Wikis for Supporting Distributed Collaborative Writing,” Proceedings of the Society for Technical Communication 52nd Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, May 8-11, 2005, pp. 204-209.

Zhou, Quan and D. K. Farkas, “Improving Reading with QuikScan: Introduction and Experimental Validation.” Proceedings of the 2007 International Professional Communication Conference, Seattle, Washington, October 1-3.

Zhou, Q. and D.K. Farkas, “Design Work on the QuikScanDocument Format,” draft manuscript.”

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