This project will study people reading texts on a computer screen. We will test for speed of reading, comprehension, and preference. The results, when fully studied, should produce the beginnings of a set of guidelines for the effective presentation of text on computer screens. Typography Group, Microsoft Corporation. One master's student from Design and one Ph.D. student from English participated.
Experimentation involves both 'static' and 'kinetic' forms.
The 'kinetic' form is articulated on Macromedia Director to demonstrate the potential for use in new digital media. This project employs a variety of design methods, including scenario building, to investigate corporate values, activities and identity and to project possible corporate futures. This is a four-year collaboration that has involved research, experimentation in courses, and the presentation of results in journals and at conferences in the United States and abroad. The project began with observations of students in a senior design course in Mechanical Engineering, moved on to a survey of available literature in the area, and ultimately focused on the use of diagrammatic representation, sketching, video instruction, and interactive media in teaching engineering. One graduate student.