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Visualizing Information Space

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This project required me to visualize information space for the book Else/Where Mapping. It was to be either interactive or a time-based video. I chose the latter, because it is where I had the least experience.

In combination with sketches, I prototyped ideas in Flash and experimented with animation early.

I used the mapped structure of the book as my theme, and overlayed information on top of photos of each page of the book.

The resulting two-and-a-half minute video is a journey through the each page of the book set to driving music.

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A still from the video.

The final video. (Size and quality reduced for Web.)

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I sketched early thoughts on animation combined with notes from the content of the book for inspiration.

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Another sketch shows early layout and transition ideas.

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To get a sense of what areas of the book I would focus on in each of the four section of the book, I created a story board.

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Carnegie Mellon University
Aug. 2007 – present
Currently teaching Basic Interaction (Spring 2008) to HCI undergraduates. Taught Intro to Design Computing (Fall 2007), a required course for IxD graduate students.

Conference Director 2007

Emergence is a CMU student-run design conference on emerging topics and issues in design.

Topics of Interest

ambient devices, design research, design theory, design thinking, emotion, identity, organizational change, service design, ubiquitous computing, wearables

Design Methods

conceptual models, evaluative research, generative research, personas, scenarios, prototypes, visualization

Tools

Mind and hand

Also: Arduino, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Processing

Technical Skills

XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript, PHP, MySQL, XML