College of Education

University of Washington


Message Design


Suggested Readings

The Typographic Heritage

Duffy, T., & Waller, R. (Eds.) (1985). Designing usable texts. Orlando: Academic Press.

Hartley, J. (1985). Designing instructional text. 2nd ed. New York : Nichols

Hartley, J. (1992). Technology and writing: Readings in the psychology of written communication. London: Kingsley.

Horn, R. (1992). Opinion: Clarifying two controversies about information mapping's method. Educational and Training Technology International, 29(2), 109-17.

Horn, R. E. (1989). Mapping hypertext : the analysis, organization, and display of knowledge for the next generation of on-line text and graphics. Lexington, MA: Lexington Institute.

Graphics: Diagrams, Illustrations, Charts, Graphs

Houghton, H., &. Willows, D. (Eds.). The psychology of illustration. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Pedersen, B. M. (Ed.) (1994). Graphis typography 1: The international compilation of the best typographic design. Zurich: Graphis Press.

Tufte, E. (1984). The visual display of quantitative information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.

Willows, D., & Houghton, H. (Eds.) (1987). The psychology of illustration. New York: Springer.

Photographic Media: Photos, Film, Video

Chu, G., & Schramm, W. (1968/1976). Learning from television. Washington, DC: National Association of Educational Broadcasters.

Gilder, G. (1994). Life after television. Rev. ed. New York: W.W. Norton.

Hannafin, Michael J. (1985). Empirical issues in the study of computer-assisted interactive video. Educational Communication and Technology Journal, 33(4), 235-247.

Hoffos, S. (1992). Multimedia and the interactive display in museums, exhibitions and libraries. London: British Library Board.

Jonassen, D., & Mandl, H. (1990). Designing hypermedia for learning. New York: Springer- Verlag.

Kozma, R. (1991). Learning with media. Review of Educational Research, 61(2), 179-211.

Kozma, R. (1994). Will media influence learning? Reframing the debate. Educational Technology, Research and Development, 42(2), 7-19.

Park, I., & Hannafin, M. (1993). Empirically-based guidelines for the design of interactive multimedia. Educational Technology, Research and Development, 41(3), 63-85.

Salomon, G. (1984). TV is "easy" and print is "tough": The differential investment of mental effort in learning as a function of perceptions and attributions. Journal of Educational Psychology, 76, 647-658.

Salomon, G. (1994). Interaction of media, cognition, and learning. Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates.

Wetzel, C., Radtke, P., & Stern, H. (1994). Instructional effectiveness of video media. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Computers, Human-Computer Interaction, Hypertext

Bolter, J. D. (1991). The writing space: The computer, hypertext, and the history of writing. Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates.

Brown, John Seely, & Newman, Susan. (1985). Issues in cognitive and social ergonomics: From our house to Bauhaus. Human-Computer Interaction, 1(4), 359-391.

Carroll, J. M. (1990). The Nurnberg funnel: Designing minimalist instruction for practical computer skill. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hartley, James. (1987). Designing electronic text: The role of print-based research. Educational Communication and Technology Journal, 35(1), 3-17.

Lansdale, M., & Ormerod, T. C. (1994). Understanding interfaces: A handbook of human- computer dialogue. San Diego : Academic Press.

Norman, D. (1988). The psychology of everyday things. New York: Basic Books.

Norman, D., & Draper, S. (Eds.) (1986). User centered system design: New perspectives on human-computer interaction. Hillsdale, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Preece, J. (1994). Human-computer interaction. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Shneiderman, B. (1992). Designing the user interface: Strategies for effective human--computer interaction. 2nd ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Shneiderman, B., & Kearsley, G. (1989). Hypertext hands-on!: An introduction to a new way of organizing and accessing information. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Tauber, M., & Ackermann, D. (Eds.) (1991). Mental models and human-computer interaction 2. New York: North-Holland

Wurman, R. S. (1989). Information anxiety. New York: Doubleday.

Crticial and Theoretical Perspectives

Duffy, T. M., Lowyck, J., & Jonassen, D. H. (Eds.) (1993). Designing environments for constructive learning. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Jonassen, D., Beissner, K., & Yacci, M. (1993). Structural knowledge: Techniques for representing, conveying, and acquiring structural knowledge. Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates.

Malone, T. W. (1981). Toward a theory of intrinsically motivating instruction. Cognitive Science, 4, 333-369.

Norman, D. (1992). Turn signals are the facial expressions of automobiles. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Norman, D. (1993). Things that make us smart: Defending human attributes in the age of the machine. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Salomon, G. (Ed.) (1993). Distributed cognitions: Psychological and educational considerations. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Some Journals of Interest:

ACM SIG CHI Bulletin Applied Ergonomics

Behaviour & Information Technology

Educational & Industrial Television Educational and Training Technology International Educational Technology Research and Development Ergonomics

Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television Human Factors Human-Computer Interaction

Information Design Journal

Journal of Film and Video

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