ADES 5450 - Data and Information Visualization and Design

3 hours

Students learn to understand and utilize a wide variety of conceptual and method-based approaches that guide the development and operation of interactive information systems, graphic displays and instructions. They then use the knowledge they build from these learning experiences to guide and support decision-making and frame thinking that involves the iterative development of user-centered, interactive, information delivery-cum-interpretation experiences on behalf of specific audiences in particular scenarios of use. The visually communicative depictions of sequential and time-based data they learn to create also help these specific audiences make effective comparisons between and derive contextualized understandings from key concepts and patterns that this data reveals.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MA with a major in design and a concentration in interaction design, or consent of instructor.

May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 6 hours.