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| Author(s): | Yoon-Hoe Gu | |
| Instructor: | Shirky, Clay | |
| Class: | Final Project Seminar | |
| An Interactive visual map of information visualization | ||
| My thesis project is an interactive visual map of information visualization. This is a prototype of visualizing a relation between ITP students and their skills. | ||
| Personal Statement: | As a graphic designer and an interaction designer, I’ve always been fascinated by visualizing information, because it helps people to search information which is hidden, dispersed and hard to find in a visual way.
Through a series of research projects and experiments, I have continued to develop several interactive and dynamic applications of networked environments. Since I’ve worked as a website designer and graphic designer from 1999, the elements of graphic design are the basic ingredients I consider in creating these applications and compositions. These elements ?including color, line, type, texture, space and motion ?are a part of every object around us. In fact, nothing can exist without them, and they always give me unlimited inspiration. In 1999, I had an opportunity to work at Gana Art Center to develop a dynamically organized database for modern and contemporary art works as the artistic media: painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, design, animation, architecture, craft arts, and publications. This information visualization and interface design made an impact on my interest in digital media. And during my first semester of ITP, my main goal was to create an interactive application using color and motion. In order to better understand how to include more diversity in the interactive design already in existence, “The Hallucinative Depictor?is a web-based interactive streaming video application using Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Flash Communication Server. One of the features of this project is that it lets users select any video clip in any order they want to make their own sequence and montage either choosing background music or creating it without music. When I took the classes experimental project using flash and dynamic web development in the fall 2003 semester, I spent much of my time working on a database to use and organize data and better visualize information. | |
| Background: | In terms of visualizing information, there are three main features that I would like to emphasize on more; interactivity, simplicity and flexibility.
This application is more like a management tool. So using this, users can find out who’s going to work with whom for what part of the project. And it allows users to manage and select people, divide labor of project, make collaboration teams and assign task. | |
| Audience: | I happen to use ITP students and their skills, however, this application is very broad, flexible and adaptable in many different fields like business, cooperation, medical center and symphony orchestra.
Instead of using ITP students and their skills, it can be possible to use many different kinds of data. For example, if symphony orchestra uses this application, they can find out who¡¯s playing what, who¡¯s specialize what, who can play more than one instruments, who¡¯s good at what composer and so on. | |
| User Scenario: | If people are working on projects, they can search this site to find people with skills they need to help them with their projects. There are several ways to use this application to find the people with the skills you need . One users can search ¡®by person¡¯, and two ¡®by tool¡¯ and three ¡®by task¡¯.
To search by person, click on ¡®by person¡¯. For example, we have a group of people Meghan, Tom and Anne who have been assigned to create a website for a children¡¯s story. Between these three people, they only have one common skill, ¡®contents¡¯. So they can work on the contents of the project together. And the remainder of the project they can work on individually depending on the skills they have. To find out who is best qualified for each portion of the project, double-click on each person¡¯s name. For instance, when we double-click on Meghan, we see she has subjectively scored herself very high in MySQL. So Meghan can work on the database for the website. When we double-click on Tom, we see his highest score is in Video. So he can use his video skill to make a short movie about the children¡¯s story. And then, double-click on Anne, she has a very strong skill in web design, so Anne can be assigned to design the website. Users can also search by tool. Tools include software and computer language. For example, Limor is working on ¡®project X¡¯ and she needs to find a flash expert to help her with her project because she has no flash experience. When we click on ¡®by tool¡¯ and then choose ¡®flash¡¯, now we can see several people who have skill in flash and she can see Kelly has the highest score in flash. In that case, Limor can contact Kelly using her email address and she can take a look at Kelly¡¯s website. And lastly, users can search by task. Tasks include general categories of skills other than software and computer language. As an example of this, a friend of mine, Carol who is a medical researcher needs help with analyzing data from heart scans and presenting this data using 3D simulation. She can click on ¡®Data Analysis¡¯ and ¡®3D¡¯. When Carol double clicks on ¡®Data Analysis¡¯, she sees that Jack has the highest score and then she can double click on ¡®3D¡¯. Again Jack has a very high score. So Carol can double click on Jack¡¯s name and send him an email asking for help. | |