User-centered Information Architecture

¿    The codex book and its global and local access structures as a forerunner of the web

    ¿    Categorization and classification, including hierarchical and faceted schemes

    ¿    Labeling

    ¿    Indexing: automated and manual indexing methods, thesauri

    ¿    Information retrieval: search languages, matching, ranging, Boolean operators, metadata

    ¿    Information structures: Sequential structure, matrixes, hierarchical tree structures, hypertext structures, deep versus shallow structures

    ¿    Navigation

    ¿    Search

    ¿    Social navigation, collaborative filtering, tagging
    ¿    Prototyping techniques

The student, upon completion of this course, will be able to:

Knowledge:

    ¿    Understand how collections of information are organized (categorized and labeled) and accessed (through navigation and search)

    ¿    Understand how users experience content collections

 Skills:

    ¿    Evaluate the architecture of existing collections of information, identify issues, and suggest improvements

    ¿    Carry out informed analysis and research on the tools, methods, and concepts of information architecture, and present those findings to others

Overall competence:
After completing this module, the student should be able to contribute to the development of sound and user-friendly information architectures for commercial and public web sites, based on a familiarity with commonly used approaches and strategies. In addition, the student should be able to discuss and reflect on the practices and the theoretical and conceptual frameworks that are current in information architecture.

Essay|Forelesninger|Gruppearbeid|Lab.øvelser|Nettstøttet læring|Obligatoriske oppgaver|Prosjektarbeid|Samling(er)/seminar(er)

Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:

Active participation in seminars, including oral presentation(s), approval of topics for written assignments.