Readings

There is no main text for this course, but there are a number of readings to parallel the lectures. They are listed below by date.

• Design Methods, by John Chris Jones. Chapters One and Five.

8-29: Design theme: Physical Instruments for Digital Data

• The What of XFR: eXperiments in the Future of Reading. Interactions. New York: The Association for Computing Machinery. pp 21-30. Harrison, S., et. al..
• The How of XFR: eXperiments in the Future of Reading. ACM Interactions. New York: The Association for Computing Machinery. pp 31-41. Harrison, S., et.al..
• Listen Reader: an electronically augmented paper-based book. Proceedings of CHI 2001, ACM Press, April 2001. Back, Maribeth, Cohen, J., Gold, R., Harrison, S., Minneman, S.
• Speeder Reader: An Experiment in the Future of Reading. Back, Maribeth, et. al., Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2001, ACM Press.

• "The Way Things Mean." Chapter Three from By Design by Ralph Caplan.
  
• City. By William H. Whyte. Chapters 1 and 2.
  
• "On the Planning Crisis: Systems Analysis of the First and Second Generations," Rittle, Horst, reprint #107 from Bedrifts Okonomen, no. 8 (October 1972), Berkeley, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California.

• "Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless Interfaces between People, Bits and Atoms." Ishii, H., & Ullmer, B. Proceedings of CHI 1997.
• "Beyond Black Boxes: Bringing Transparency and Aesthetics Back to Scientific Investigation. Resnick, M., Berg, R., and Eisenberg, M. (2000). Journal of the Learning Sciences, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 7-30.
• Problems and Prospects for Intimate Control of Computers." Preprint, to appear in Computer Music Journal 2002. Wessel, David, and Matthew Wright, of CNMAT at UC Berkeley.

• Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." A must-read.
• Scott McCloud's Story Machine. Also check out the Big Triangle at this site, and McCloud's online comics. Especially interesting for this week is the morning improv comic section, and the Original Carl, a look at story expansion and compression.

• Hanks and Belliston. Rapid Viz.Good basic techniques for sketching in notebooks and for communicating with others.
• Neil Gaiman's essay "Where Do you get your Ideas?"
• McKim, R .Experiences in Visual Thinking. Another good book about thinking and drawing. Out of print but can be had used via Amazon.
• Edwards, S.The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Try to ignore the pop cog-sci stuff and go for the excellent practical advice.
• New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook: Guide Practice in the Five Basic Skills of Drawing. Kind of the opposite of sketching for thinking, but great references for those wanting to make drawings that aid presenting ideas to others.
• Simon, M.Storyboards: Motion in Art. A good basic text in storyboarding.
• McCloud, S.Understanding Comics. The book that preceded the links listed above. Good for getting a lot of depth on graphic novels and other-frame-based story-telling. Principles do generalize to other forms of sequential art.
• Tufte, E. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information; Envisioning Information; Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative . All three of the Tufte books are valuable for getting an understanding of presenting correlated ideas.
• Guptill, A. Rendering in Pencil. Great, detailed, down-to-earth book on the practicalities of sketching in pencil.

• "Making Sense of Sensing Systems." Bellotti, V., Back, M., et al. Proceedings of CHI 2002.
• Art and Technology links (local!):
  Survival Research Labs. One of the first art robotics groups, started by Mark Pauline in San Francisco in the 70s.
  Kal Spelletich and Seemen.
  The Shipyard.
• Links to sensor catalogs and information pages:
  
  Infusion Systems: Analog sensors and MIDI
  STEIM SensorLab: Sensors and multichannel I/O + processor
  Tactex: cool multi-pressure sensor plates.

  General catalogs of interest:
  Jameco
  Melexis
  Digikey
  Happ Controls
  

• Marshall, C. Making Metadata: a study of metadata creation for a mixed physical-digital collection" in Proceedings of the ACM Digital Libraries '98 Conference, Pittsburgh, PA (June 23-26, 1998) pp. 162-171. Winner of 1998 Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award.
• Gorbet,Matthew G., Maggie Orth, Hiroshi Ishii. Triangles: Tangible Interface for Manipulation and Exploration of Digital Information Topography in Proceedings of CHI 98, ACM Press.
• Brave,Scott, Hiroshi Ishii, and Andrew Dahley. Tangible Interfaces for Remote Collaboration and Communication. CSCW 98, ACM Press. A paper on the inTouch and PSyBench systems.

• McCullough, Malcolm. "Abstracting Craft." Chapter One, "Hands," and 3 "Tools."
• Jones, J. C. "Softecnica." In Design After Modernism (Thakara, J., ed) [Chapter 17]
• Baudrillard, J., "The System of Objects." In Design After Modernism (Thakara, J., ed). [Chapter 12].

• "The Idea of Design." A design issues reader. Ed. Vistor Margolin and Richard Buchanan.

  Recommended, not required:

• Dewey, John. "The Art of Experience."
• Shedroff, Nathan. "Experience Design."