Text informational content in interactive new media

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Text-informational content in interactive new
media

• Lisa Lee

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Information Visualization

• Information visualization is a complex research
  area. It builds on theory in information design,
  computer graphics, human-computer interaction and
  cognitive science.As a subject in computer
  science, information visualization is the use of
  interactive, sensory representations, typically
  visual, of abstract data to reinforce
  cognition.Practical application of information
  visualization in computer programs involves
  selecting, transforming and representing abstract
  data in a form that facilitates human interaction
  for exploration and understanding.
• Important aspects of information
  visualization are the interactivity and dynamics
  of the visual representation. Strong techniques
  enable the user to modify the visualization in
  real-time, thus affording unparalleled perception
  of patterns and structural relations in the
  abstract data in question.Although much work in
  information visualization regards to visual
  forms, auditory and other sensory representations
  are also of concern.- wikipedia

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The Need for Visualization

• Like good writing, good graphical displays of
  data communicate ideas with clarity, precision
  and efficiency.
• Like poor writing, bad graphical displays distort
  or obscure the data, making it harder to
  understand or compare.

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text

• Method of Communicating
• Storing Information
• Transmitting knowledge and ideas

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Text in information visualization

• Informational data
• Visual content (typography)
• breaking general aspect/function of
  Text-linearity
• typography to help visual effects

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Text in interactive new media

• Hypertext
• Break linearity of text (starting point of
  visualizing information/text thinking differently
  )
• Data visualization
• Information design
• Text informationcontent(typography)

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Hypertext

• Ted Nelson- extension of the idea of the
  cross-reference, a m eans of creating meaningful
  links between information that is stored in text
  form.
• The central idea is to provide the reader with a
  variety of different perspectives on to a body of
  information that can be explored interactively.
• Hypertext changes our sense of authorship,
  authorial property, and creativity by moving away
  from the constructions of page-bound technology.
  In so doing, it promises to have an effect on
  cultural and intellectual disciplines as
  important as those produced by earlier shifts in
  the technology of cultural memory that followed
  the invention of writing and printing.- George
  Landow
• The Jew's Daughter by Judd Morrissey
• Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson.
• Other so many hypertexts

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Informational design

• In making information accessible to people, it is
  necessary for designers to rethink current
  design paradigms. The computer screen is not a
  piece of paper and should not be treated as
  such.By taking advantage of the ability of the
  computer to display dynamic, flexible, and
  adaptive typography and imagery, we can invent
  new ways for people to read, interact with, and
  assimilate information. Likewise, the combination
  of innovative visualization with architectural
  space and well-designed physical interfaces puts
  potentially limitless spaces within a human
  context. - David Small http//www.davidsmall.com/
  
• Jessica Helfand / William Drenttel
  http//www.jhwd.com/inunpub.html
• Masamichi Udagawa / Sigi Moeslingerhttp//www.ant
  ennadesign.com/
• John Maeda http//plw.media.mit.edu/people/maeda/
  

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• Stream of Conciousness The Talmud
  Project
• David Small

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• Floating Numbers Joachim Sauter
  ARTCOM

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Data visualization-using text as content-

• -Martin Wattenberg
• Apartment http//www.turbulence.org/Works/apartm
  ent/
• -Benjamin Fry
• Valence http//acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/valenc
  e/applet/
• -W. Bradford Paley
• Textarc http//www.textarc.org/

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• The word is an image after all
• -Stuart Moulthrop
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  http//iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/
• Breaking linearity of text-gt
• bringing in interactivity-gt
• regenerate narration