180 Day 18 Notes

March 21, 2001

1. One minute papers

Main Point

Structure and content are related

Visual systems work hard (manage lots of info)

Temporal elements crucial to TV/video

More channels involved, more intense the interaction

Multiple layers (scheme, DTD, markup)

Q:

Is looking at file extensions a kind of link typing?
does the amount of experience one has with a medium affect how one can analyze it?

Will the web become more like TV (bombarding us with info?)

What is a moo?

Tags for complex multimedia? (see SMIL http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/)

Where is open video? (www.open-video.org)

Internet architecture like info architecture?

Does involvement increase with complexity? (e.g., not simply more channels, but more power in channels)

Link typing? Color coding the links? (this is an example of labeling the anchor)

Compare adult and children TV shot frequencies (and other factors)

2. finish discussion of the midterm projects

Web

Lots of personal ‘impressions’…consider sectors and links (range, mode for each)

LC: S=1-23, 4 L=13-25, 25

AM: S=1-14, 4,3 tied L=1-31, 31

Fedstats: S=2-8; 5 L=12-19; 15

BLS: S=3-16; 5 L=72-88; 77

UNC: S=2-24; 5 L=22-28; 27

SILS: S=1-9; 4 L=14-73; 64

Should web sites have graphics?

Are repeated links on same page helpful? Ever? When?

Some of you react strongly to colors

Eye movement---arcs vs angles

Evolution of sites—AM changed over the time of the assignment (where do old sites go?)

Organizations: parents and children; topic and/or task

Messages: corporate seem to work, e.g., Disneyà fun for sale

Search engines---trying to find a mission and a business model

3 Reading discussions:

Tibbo discussion: Sarah Auman

Roloff discussion: Andre Burton

4.The one-minute paper

What was the big point you learned in class today?

What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?