Instr:                   Dave Clark
Office:                CRT 582,   229-4870
e-mail:                dclark@uwm.edu
Office hours:    by appointment

Course Information:                     Mondays     5:30-8:10   CRT 127
 

Course Description

In this course we'll be talking about and working on the architecture of "information spaces."  An "information space" could be a virtual space like a Web site or a database, or it could be a library, a town hall, a workplace, etc.  Basically, it's any place that is designed to help people interact with information, and our goal will be learning about better, more sophisticated ways of helping people interact effectively.

We'll write some more theoretical papers, and we'll also be working on a number of projects.  Early in the semester we'll focus on reading and learning about spaces, and we'll write analyses of existing spaces to get some practice in becoming critical about how information is used and presented.  Later, we'll construct information spaces of our own, for example constructing Web sites, databases, multimedia projects, etc.