Seminar: Density
Project seminar; Winter 2002/2003
Aachen University of Applied Science
12 weeks (with 18 hours per week)
Aim
The seminar tries to apply principle of graphical excellence (suggest by Edward Tufte) to time-based media like animation, film and multimedia. The aspects of cognitive psychology need to be researched and understood and transferred to the given task: trying to achieve a maximum of information density while maintaining a high degree of understandability.
Objectives
Students engaged in research and exercises that helped to develop a broader understanding of the limits of information representation. Starting from rather simple optimization problems the assignments tunred into more ill defined problems with more factors involved in the design process.
Outcome
Students worked on different assignments to transform textual reports about economic matters into easy to understand animations.
