Information Design: The Knowledge Architect's Toolkit

by Graziella Tonfoni

Overview

An innovative text that approaches complex concepts with relative ease and simplicity, this new work by internationally-known Graziella Tonfoni takes the reader on an architectural excursion that is the metaphorical representation of the components of the expression of knowledge. Through the progressive building and exploration of consistently designed and complex metaphors, which the author calls "metaphorical environments," the reader will come to understand the building principles upon which to base the construction of multimedia forms.

The first section of the book creates the setting for accurately understanding the context and deals with the implications of designing teaching material for a course in information design. Other sections build upon this groundwork using a series of descriptions of actual architectural structures. A final section of visuals is meant to facilitate active learning of those concepts previously introduced. Blank boxes on each page in this last section encourage the reader to re-number the pages to create an individual path that relates the concepts to different sections of the text.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810835269
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/27/1998
Pages:	195
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.83(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Graziella Tonfoni is Research Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Bologna, Italy. She is internationally known for her contributions to textual theory, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, communications, training and multimedia education. She has also been a visiting scholar at MIT, at Harvard University, and has presented her methodology in many U.S. universities and research centers.

Editorial Reviews

For library scientists and other information professionals.

Reference and Research Book News

Explores a highly evolved system of information and knowledge expression through a series of metaphorical environments that pressure the boundaries of the philosophy of information organization. Section I explains the context and implications of designing teaching material for courses on information design. Later sections describe these new modes of information expression, and a final section is composed of b&w visuals that facilitate active learning of concepts. For library scientists and other information professionals. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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