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Information Design Theory

Philip DuchastelTeleEducation NBNew Brunswick, Canada

philip.duchastel@gnb.ca

www.duchastel.com/~pcd/ida

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What is Information Design? In the narrow sense…

Crafting web pages & displays Usability – Nielsen www.useit.com

Communicating –Tufte http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses

Information Mapping – Horne http://www.infomap.com/im_aboutus/method/aboutus_method.htmhttp://www.i

nfomap.com/im_aboutus/method/aboutus_method.htm

In the theoretical sense Creating information for knowledge

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Information Design

The technology for structuring information in artefacts

… for availability and optimal usability

IDT … theoretical perspective• Up from craft and technology• Not Shannon’s information theory• Communication, cognition...

ID?

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Topics of Discussion

What about traditional ID? What is information? Knowledge and relations E-learning and KM Wildies

Philo

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Instructional Design?

Information Design

InstructionalDesign

WebDesign

MuseumDesignEvent

DesignBook

Design

Designing information for optimal learning

Interaction design ?

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Information?

http://www.nathan.com/thoughts/unified/3.html

Nathan Shedroff

8:15 departure

Einstein as creator of theory of relativity

Theory of evolution

Buddha’s Middle Way

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Yup…

"Perhaps we should not worry so much about proper word use, and accept the fact that information has become an all-purpose weasel-word"

- Fritz Machlup IT – mostly DT Artificial and Natural ???

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Aspects of Information

State of mind 14159265

In-form …infusion of form Models of change

… activity

Condense and abstract

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Relations

Information / Knowledge Knowledge to Knowledge

Cognition The falling tree

Communication The functional approach

Interfacing The steering wheel

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Practical Reality

E-Learning Formal to on-demand

To learning objects Knowledge Management

Access to intellectual assets

Online Program

Online Course

Online conference

Online seminar

Training/tutorial module

Quick Tips

EPS

Online help

Online reference materials

Online information

BLENDED Learning

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Future Reality

Digitization of the world Modeling …science as model Matrix …Snow Crash Storage revolution Cognitive processes

Knowledge AgeInteracting more with information

…than with the world around us?

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Real Life

Music on the fly…but what is a symphony?

Is a Picasso information? Life as love

… the meaning of life? From cutting trees to advising

investors …the knowledge society

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Emerging Realms

Physical …from the Bing Bang Biological …life Mental …consciousness Virtual …augmented realities Informational

…unbounded processing

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IDT - Interesting, but?...

Education Bereiter’s knowledge building

Public Health Sex education

War Goebel’s machine

Information does not replace policy …it informs it

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Where to?

Life as interacting with information Kurzweil’s ‘singularity’

Autonomous processing ?!!! Hegel‘s Geist The next lion king?

And wisdom? A humanitarian perspective

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IDT

Just as we learned how to deal with predators and how to build space ships…so too we must learn how to build

information There is more to the knowledge

society than making broadband available to all

KnoWCA

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A whole world…

Further personal thoughts

Learnability Knowledge Interfacing Virtuality Evolutionary Cognition

Thank you for listening…now for your ideas