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This assignment explores how visualizations can enhance the user experience in computer-mediated communication. By leveraging visual tools, we can provide users with a broad overview, reveal patterns, permit comparisons, and convey stories, enabling reflection on history, activity, and relationships. The design of visual social interfaces should create affordances with social translucence, utilize rich media when appropriate, and accurately represent users. Key design principles include allowing ambiguity for interpretation and enabling the big picture to emerge from details.
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Computer-Mediated Communication Visual Interfaces and Visualizations 15 February 2012
Assignment #1 due Cheshire & Fiore — Computer-Mediated Communication
What can visualization do for you(or your users)? …provide a broad overview …reveal patterns …permit comparisons …tell stories …permit reflection (on history, activity, relationships, etc) Computer-Mediated Communication
Designing visual social interfaces • Create affordances with social translucence • Use rich media deliberately, when warranted • Represent humans and their faces carefully • Be ambiguous: users can interpret just fine • Reflect users’ actions back to them • Let the big picture emerge from details • Consider whether customization is worth it Computer-Mediated Communication
A couple of classics Computer-Mediated Communication
(All 2004 political maps from politicalmaps.org) Computer-Mediated Communication
Edward Tufte Computer-Mediated Communication
Small multiples MSU — TC 375 — Fiore
Micro/macro designs Let big picture emerge from agglomeration of details Source: David H. Hathaway, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA MSU — TC 375 — Fiore
Notes on size, color, and transformation MSU — TC 375 — Fiore
r = 2 r = 1 r = 3 A = π A = 4π A = 9π MSU — TC 375 — Fiore
(J.B. Krygier) MSU — TC 375 — Fiore
Hue Saturation Brightness Hue + saturation (same brightness) MSU — TC 375 — Fiore
(J.B. Krygier) MSU — TC 375 — Fiore
Visualizingdigital histories Computer-Mediated Communication
HistoryFlow MSU — TC 375 — Fiore
Evolution Viégas, Wattenberg, and Dave MSU — TC 375 — Fiore
Viégas, Wattenberg, and Dave MSU — TC 375 — Fiore
Viégas, Wattenberg, and Dave MSU — TC 375 — Fiore
Viégas, Wattenberg, and Dave MSU — TC 375 — Fiore
Viégas, Wattenberg, and Dave MSU — TC 375 — Fiore
Viégas, Wattenberg, and Dave MSU — TC 375 — Fiore
Spacing by revision MSU — TC 375 — Fiore Viégas, Wattenberg, and Dave
Spacing by time MSU — TC 375 — Fiore Viégas, Wattenberg, and Dave
Chocolate Viégas, Wattenberg, and Dave MSU — TC 375 — Fiore
Abortion (by revision) Viégas, Wattenberg, and Dave MSU — TC 375 — Fiore
Abortion (by date) Viégas, Wattenberg, and Dave MSU — TC 375 — Fiore
Threaded conversations Computer-Mediated Communication
Network views Computer-Mediated Communication
http://benfry.com/zipdecode/ Computer-Mediated Communication