Ecological Design: A New Critique
Pauline Madge
Design Issues, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer 1997
Published in 1997, this paper tried to attempt to explain the context and definition of three related terms: green design, ecological design, and sustainable design.
Green Design
As a buzzword of the 1980s, “green” was used politics and marketing. In 1980’s “green markets and the [...]
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Ecological Design: A New Critique
The Dominant stances on Ecodesign: A Critique
The Dominant stances on Ecodesign: A Critique
Kate T.Fletcher and Philip A. Goggin
Design Issues: vol. 17, No. 3, Summer 2001
This paper tries to organize the broad clusters of ecodesign strategies according to three foci: product focus, result focus, and needs focus.
Product Focus
Making existing products more efficient
Often accompanying with trade-off with new features
Result Rocus
investigating the way existing [...]
Design Documentaries
Design Documentaries: Inspiring Design Reseaerch Through Documentary Film
by Bas Raijmakers, William W. Gaver, and Jon Bishay
Design documentaries is a design methodology that is a repulsive response to traditional usability-based user research. Whereas traditional user-testing is good for to evaluate the “useful” and “usable” aspects of systems, this new approach aims to address the issues of [...]
Community Computing
Community Computing: Comparisons between Rural and Urban Societies Using Mobile Phone Data
By Naathan Eagle et al.
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/CSE.2009.91
This paper is about the analysis of national-wide (Belgium, I guess), long duration (four years) mobile phone data. Plus, they used regional census and airtime sharing data. Through the quantitative analysis of the massive data, they induced several results; comparison [...]
Environmental Sustainability
Woodruff, A., Mankoff, J. “Environmental Sustainability,” IEEE, Pervasive Computing, 8(1), 18-21.
This short editorial presents four directions in the research of pervasive computing that promotes environmental sustainability. The four foci are:
Perishable goods supply chain: Pervasive technologies have great potential to improve the efficiency of this food supply chain. For example, the use of a sensor-based first-expire-first-out [...]
The Persuasive Phase of Visualization
Chih, Christine H., and Douglass S. Parker. “The persuasive phase of visualization.” In Proceeding of the 14th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, 884-892. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: ACM, 2008.
This paper seemed quite relevant to my interest: persuasive infovis. However, the foci are quite different. In this paper, the authors [...]
The Visual Rhetoric of Data Displays: The Conundrum of Clarity
Kostelnick, C. “The Visual Rhetoric of Data Displays: The Conundrum of Clarity.” Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on 50, no. 4 (2007): 280-294.
The author is a professor from an English department, Iowa State University. It is interesting to see how a literature scholar approaches information visualization. In fact, he collaborates with professors and seems to be [...]
InfoVis Aesthetics/Criticism
Two ways to present the resemblance/connection between modern graphic design and InfoVis
Change an ugly InfoVis system into a well-designed one adopting principles of modern graphic design
Criticizing/Understanding improved current InfoVis systems through a lens of graphic design
Examples of 1:
Automated chart design at MS Office 97 VS. Later Versions (or Keynote)
Examples of 2:
Treemap algorithms
Ordered and Quantum Treemaps: [...]
Persuasive means of InfoVis
Apparently, InfoVis community seems to be interested in the social impacts. The biggest contribution of this trend may be the accessability of data now. Many governmental organizations opened their data accessible to general public. Some examples are:
OECD: http://www.oecd.org/statsportal/0,3352,en_2825_293564_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
UN Data: http://data.un.org/
Euro Statistics: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home/
USA statistics: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/brief.html
Australian Statistics: http://www.abs.gov.au/
The expanding of the open data enabled the change of [...]
Panel: Changing the World with Visualization
Panel: Changing the World with Visualization
Robert Kosara, Sarah Cohen, Jerome Cukier, Martin Wattenberg
This infoVis 2009 Panel was very interesting. In this panel, they did not u
Panel: Changing the World with Visualization by Robert Kosara, Sarah Cohen, Jerome Cukier, Martin Wattenberg
This infoVis 2009 Panel was very interesting. In this panel, they did not use the term “persuasion” [...]