This interface is the third concept design for my dissertation. It is meant as a visual and functional compromise between the first two alternatives – innovative yet familiar to those in the manufacturing sector. The top shows controls, while the bottom the resulting solutions.Read More →
This interface is also part of my PhD thesis. The concept is based around components that are traditionally associated with decision dashboards. I completed a thorough exploration of alternatives to the visual representation of the solution portion of this design (located at the bottom of the display), and developed 24 unique designs, sub-divided into 7 categories. In this design, the controls used to manipulate the constraints are separate from the results of the calculations.Read More →
This interface is one of three concepts designed as part of my PhD dissertation. Working in partnership with an Alberta-based oil company, my goal is to produce alternatives to human-machine interfaces for use in the manufacturing process. Specifically, I am looking to design interfaces that support human decision making, enable accountability, and the leveraging of individual and collective knowledge. The sketch on the right shows Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for ice cream manufacturing, in this case it is displaying profit across time. Radzikowska, M., S. Ruecker, C. Ta, W. Bischof, and F. Forbes. (2011). “Human Decisions for a Machine World: Designing Experimental Interface Alternatives that SupportRead More →
MONK is an attempt to build on the earlier NORA and Wordhoard projects in their efforts to make data-mining and visualization systems available in forms that are congenial to humanities scholars, and that work across a wide range of digital collections. The Monk interface is made up of a multi-step system, designed for complex textual experimentation and analysis. McDonald, A., A. Kumar, M. Bouchard, A. Giacometti, M. Patey, M. Radzikowska, P. Michura, C. Fiorentino, S. Ruecker, C. Plaisant, and S. Sinclair. (2008). “Dozens of Little Radio Stations: Getting Technologies Talking in the MONK Workbench.” Paper presented at the third Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS)Read More →
The goal of the NORA project was to produce software for discovering, visualizing, and exploring significant patterns across large collections of full-text humanities resources in existing digital libraries. The kernel browser provides a number of blank kernels that can be configured by the user through a data mining “training” process, then be applied to the larger collection. This sketch shows a total collection of 5000 author names, with a subset selected by the kernel. Presented at the 2006 Digital Humanities International Conference in Victoria, BC; The Sorbonne, Centre Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l’Information, Paris, 2006; and others.Read More →
This project investigated a theory of transferability in interface design: from a tool for dynamic blocking and reading of literary plays to a tool for dynamic blocking and viewing of football plays. Designed for athletes learning plays, coaches setting up plays, and fans watching plays. The play view display shows a graphical representation of the field, both teams, and plays, and requires sports data capture. Presented at the Ninth IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education, Lima, Peru, October 2006.Read More →
TAPoR is a discover research tool portal for textual study. It contains links to tools for humanities research, reviews of these tools, and sample projects. Users can browse tools by type or tag, search and use tools, read and create tool reviews, contribute and advertise tools.Read More →
Completed Published Co-authors 2014 Scholarly Research and Communication 5.4: n. pag. Stan Ruecker, Stéfan Sinclair, Teresa Dobson, Geoffrey Rockwell, & INKE Research Group In this article, we discuss the various ways in which the experiments we have been doing within the INKE Interface Design team and elsewhere are predicated on the availability of “digital apparatus” – various forms of metadata that can be made consistently available. ese include structural, procedural, and semantic markup, digital indexes, textual variants, annotations, regularized citations, and taxonomies of references, to name a few. While some affordances are agnostic to the very existence of metadata, in some crucial instances the metadata isRead More →
COMM 4650 Special Issues in Information Design Information design pervades and shapes our world. In this experimental new course, students will learn to observe, analyze, and critique how design shapes our relationships, dictates our actions, inscribes values, and sediments privilege. The course will combine cultural analysis and critical theory with information design practice. Students will work in small groups to identify a local issue, then propose, defend, and implement a project that is meant to act as an intervention into the issue. Students will work in dialog with those concerned with the focal issue, and learn to adapt their design practices through participation and criticalRead More →
This year’s Congress of the Humanities was held in Victoria, BC, followed by the annual Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). My colleagues, Gerry Derksen, Jennifer Windsor, and I team taught a course called Visual Design for Digital Humanists. This offering provided an introduction to the theory and practical application of the fundamentals of visual communication design, in the context of digital humanities projects. Emphasis was placed on conceptualization, iteration, principles and elements of design, grid-based layouts, and typography. Instruction was a combination of lecture format, demonstration, in-class critiques, hands-on exercises, and a project component derived from student materials. We explored how student projects could beRead More →