SIMS 247: Information Visualization and Presentation Homework and Reading Assignments Last modified 4/16/98

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Final Project Assignment 4 (Midterm Project) Assignment 3: Issued Feb 24, Due in class March 3. Assignment 2: Issued Feb 5, Due in class Feb 19 (extended from original due date of Feb 17). Assignment 1 Ongoing Assignment: Consider the informative visualizations that you encounter as you go about your daily business.  Make copies or save references to any particularly interesting or atrocious ones you come across.  Starting the fifth week of the semester, each Thursday two students will show and discuss one such visualization the beginning of class.  A sign-up mechanism will be put together to schedule this. Full list of references in reader Readings for Week 13 Shriver Ch. 5 Readings for Week 12 Mackinlay 90 Wright 95 Readings for Week 11 Schriver Ch. 6 Readings for Week 10 Hearst 95 Eick 94 Olsen et al. 93 Spoerri 93 Rennison 94 Lin 92 Wise et al. 95 Readings for Week 9 Robertson et al. 93 Mackinlay et al. 90 (optional) Munzner & Burchard 95 Munzner et al. 96 Feiner & Beshers 90 (optional) Readings for Week 8 Mullet & Sano, Excerpts from Ch. 4, 6 (481) Bederson et al.,1998 (72) Meyer 97 (473) Pad++ Manual (531) (optional) Space-Scale Diagrams: Understanding Multiscale Interfaces by G. Furnas and B. Bederson. Readings for Week 7 Wright & Lickorish 88 Bederson et al. 1996 Readings for Week 6 Shneiderman, Ch. 4 McGrath 94 Byrne 93 Lohse et al. 94 (optional) Senay & Ignatius 96 Healey Kaufman 74 Coren and Girgus 74 Readings for Week 5 Sarkar and Brown, 1994 Leung and Apperley, 1994 Cruz and Tamassia Hendley et al., 1995 Lamping et al., 1995 http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi95/Electronic/documnts/papers/jl_bdy.htm. Wills, 1997 http://www.bell-labs.com/user/gwills/NICHEguide/niche.html Andrews, 1995 Eades 1996 http://www.cs.newcastle.edu.au/Research/qwfeng/RESEARCH/Multilevel/Multilevel.html Furnas and Zacks, 1994 Robertson et al., 1993 Optional: Gershon et al., 1995 Amir, 1993 http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~elan/mbone.html Readings for Week 4 Chi, 1997 Fishkin and Stone, 1995 http://www.acm.org:82/sigs/sigchi/chi95/Electronic/documnts/papers/kpf_bdy.htm. Bier et al., 1993 http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/projects/MagicLenses Rao and Card, 1994 Anupam et al., 1995 Leung and Apperley, 1994 Readings for Week 2-3 Ahlberg and Shneiderman, 1994 Ahlberg & Shneiderman '93 Tweedie et al. 1996 http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/research/information/www/LisaDir/CHI96/lt1txt.html Roth et al.,1997 (Sections 1-3 only.) http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sage/HCI-journal-96/HCI-journal.html Inselberg 1997 Readings for Week 1-2 Tufte Ch 4, 6, 7, and 2 Kosslyn Ch 1-3 Kosslyn 89 article (handout in class) Readings for Week 1 Handout: Tufte 97 Tufte 83 Ch 1 Projects: The project requirements are still being finalized.  Tentative due dates are: March 31 for the midterm project, May 5 for the presentation of the final project, and May 15 for the write-up of the final project. Questionnaire: For auditors as well as enrolled students: please fill out and return this questionnaire as soon as possible.