Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Lesson work

Lesson Work: Your comments are most welcome!
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Reflection on this Flash:
Problem:
1.Text covered on the bottons.
2. Poor effect of buttons.

Improvement:
1. Buttons could be improved.
2. Text could not cover the button.
3. Background colour could be added.
4. Larger buttons.


Refelection on Reading:
According to Bederson & Shneiderman (2003), information visulization is a research aiming at supporting discovery and analysis of data through visual exporation. Nowadays, Interative techniques are capable of handling a million items effectively visible and manageable on screen. For example:

1. Hardware acceleration: achieve the speed required for interation and animation.

2. Non-standard visual attributes: synthetic overlap count to enhance visulization.

3. Animation and interaction: using time multiplexing techniques to analyze the data across several views.

4. Applied techniques to treemaps and scatter plots.

5. Other techniques: Image Library, drag and drop strategy for labelling photos, extensible zoomable user interface graphics toolkit in Java, a hierarchical multi window world wide web browser, photofinder web, and zoomable user interfaces.

Reference:
Bederson, B.B. & Shneiderman, B. (2003). The craft of information visulization: readings and reflections. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.