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== Curriculum and Courses: Follow Link for Course Details October ==
'''[[Current Versions of Course Proposals]]'''

== Calendar ==
[[Proposed Calendar]]

'''Future meetings:''' August 2, August 16, August 30
Room 14-400, 1:00-3:00

Auxilliary visual design meeting July 26, noon, room 14-700

== Meeting Notes and Minutes ==

[[Meeting Notes]]

== Models for SIAT's Undergrad Curriculum ==

[[What is SIAT?]]

=== What is a Curriculum? ===
[[What is a curriculum?]]

[[Models]]

=== Current Thoughts For Years 1 - 4 ===

[[Year One]]

[[Year Two]]

[[Year Three]]

[[Year Four]]

== Specialized UCRACK Meetings ==

Auxiliary ucrack: [[Visually-oriented classes]]

== Curriculum Machine ==
Note: "the machine" enables anyone to change the number of classes, in order to see how that change affects the whole plan. (Thanks Rob!)

Diane will put the new and improved version here shortly.

== Skills Inventory ==

'''INVENTORY OF SKILLS THAT UNDERGRADUATES NEED TO ACQUIRE'''

=== Critical and Creative Thinking ===

'''Critial & Creative Thinking (W) IAT 209'''

''How do you know a good idea is a good idea?''

''Course covers methods of generating ideas, testing ideas and communicating them effectively in visual, textual and oral forms to persuade a target audience.''

• Writing (several genresof academic/professional writing) relation between form & context

• Reflective practice: examine their credibility, signs of limited thinking

• Critical reading: relation between active reading and their critical writing

• Analysis: test ideas, evaluate arguments, id faulty reasoning

• Rhetorical practice: use of tone and voice in scientific/technical writing, art criticism, oral discourse

• Critique: measure objectivity/subjectivity of their critical voice

• Case study: compare & contrast usccessful & failed technologies (What is innovation?), id roles of opinion leaders & change agents

• Scenario/role-play: teams research a failed technology, assume role of prof. communicators through research, composition & design aimed at persuading

• Teamwork: midterm & final projects are collaborative, req. peer evaluation & ind. reflection

=== First Year Foundations ===

'''Everyone takes 1st year foundations: what are they? (see example, above)'''

• Critical thinking

• Team work

• Understanding both form and content of genres and styles

• Composition of one's own ideas in specific styles and genres

• Writing

• Speaking

others????

=== Knowing how to design ===

formal (composition, color, line, composition, form, proximity, hierarchy, contrast...)

Human-centred (perceptual, cognitive and social/communicative abilities, limitations, and preferences)

•• Culture

•• Psycholology

•• Perceptual science

•• Cognitive science (builds on IAT 209)

•• Kinesiology

•• Enaction (perception/cognition/action loops, e.g. human-information dialog, gameplay "cognitive ludology")

•• Cognitive systems (human/machine)

Iterative design process: (Analyze context, design, prototype, test)

•• Evidence-based design: reflection on action

•• formulate questions from practice

•• seek information

•• ground in practice

•• implement in design

•• evaluate in context of use

Design methods

•• participatory design: engaging user in context as co-designers

•• design ethnography: participant/observation field work; interpretation

•• contextual design: analysis and design in context

•• speculative approaches: cultural probes, design games, seamful design

•• evaluation: empirical evaluation, criticism, qualitative/quantitative analysis

•• generative: informances, body-storming, future-workshops

•• user-centered design

=== Evaluation ===

• Formative and Summative evaluation methods

• Evaluation metrics-- measurement, reliability, validity

• Empirical methods-- experiment, quasi-experiment, observation

• Testing for design goals (e.g. games vs workplace)

=== Knowing how to represent designs ===

• Sketching

• Writing

• Photography [see "Media Skills" below]

• Basic videography for documentation/communication (a bit different in focus than storytelling per se) [see "Media Skills" below]

• CAD

• Solid modelling

• Parametric modelling

• Animation

• Software models,

Toolkit architectures

=== Media Skills ===

* still and video camera operation

* use of microphones and audio field recording

* introduction to post-production photo, sound, and video software

* production planning and storyboarding

* composition

* "seeing" and using light

* basic manipulation of image

* sequencing still and moving images

* soundscapes, situated sound

* processing and editing sound

* expressive use of sound, music

* combining and sequencing sound and image

=== Knowing the artifact -- the internal view of the artifact ===

* Software: Anchored in Problems and Applications germane to SIAT
** Java, C++. Python, Flash, Max, other programming languages
** Data structures: Arrays, Records, Objects,
*** Linked Lists, Queues, Stacks, Binary trees, B-Trees, red-black trees, Quadtrees, k-D trees
*** Heaps, Hash tables
** Algorithms
*** Searching: Sequential Search, Binary Search, Radix Search
*** Sorting: Quicksort, Bubblesort, Heapsort
*** Strings: Recursion, Parsing, recursive descent
** Object-Oriented Programming
*** Inheritance, encapsulation, interfaces and signatures, polymorphism
*** Templates, Standard Template Library,
** Object-Oriented Design: Design Patterns
*** Singleton, Composite, Decorator, Iterator, Chain of Responsibility, Factory Method, Abstract Factory, etc
** Computer Graphics
*** Frame buffer, pixels, RGBa, compositing,
*** Hidden-surface removal, z-buffer, depth sort
*** Polygon rendering, lighting, shading, texturing
*** Modeling: Polygons, curves, smooth surfaces
** Database and Information Retrieval
*** Tables, Keys, Joins, SQL
*** Ontologies, metadata
*** Search, cosine similarity, n-Grams, indexing
*** Web Back-end techniques

• Text & Image

• Software tools for Prototyping interfaces

• Prototyping 3D objects (this is a composite skill that needs to be unpacked)

• Interactive animation (depending on the domain, may be a representational concern)

• Interface design

• Electronics

• Mechanics

• Statics

• Materials

• Manufacturing processes

• web design

• exhibition design

• designing for public spaces

• game design

=== Knowing how to work with others ===

• Teamwork

• Collaboration

• Negotiation/communication across disciplines

=== Understanding designs in context -- the external view of the artifact ===

• design history

• Ethnography: the user in context of culture, practice, organization

• task analysis

• user testing

• Usability

• semiotics

• user

=== Other Aspects ===
• Media and Cultural Studies
Contextualization of 'new media -
history
theory
ethics
critical approaches
post-modernism
post-colonial theory, new media historiography
cyberfeminism
access and democracy
globalization

Examination of particular including -
mainstream media art
apanese new media
Indian interface design
community computing
Southeast Asian media art
Islamic networking

Students enabled to develop -
personal reflections
arguments
perspectives
ability to interpret

• Speculative design (combines cultural studies/critical theory with making; non-normative)

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== Stakeholders ==

Design Channel (ID): Alissa Antle, Lyn Bartram, Maia Engeli, Halil Erhan, Diane Gromala, Thecla Schiphorst, Chris Shaw, Russell Turner, Ron Wakkary, Rob Woodbury

Information Channel (TAD): Alissa Antle, Lyn Bartram, Tom Calvert, John Dill, Halil Erhan, Brian Fisher, (Diane Gromala), Marek Hatala, Chris Shaw, Rob Woodbury, B. Ben Youssef

Media Arts Channel (NME/PMA): Jim Bizzocchi, John Bowes, Tom Calvert, Maia Engeli, Diane Gromala, Susan Kozel, Niranjan Rajah, Thecla Schiphorst, Chris Shaw

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