Presentations of information can respond dynamically to human interaction. To work in these terms requires:

• visual design and programming
• conceptualization of the initial information, and how it will change.
• sense of what gesture will trigger dynamic change
• understanding of who the human is, and what s/he is doing

Code Fundamentals

course text: David Flanagan, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 4th edition

Javascript, XML, and manipulating the DOM.

Interaction Design

course text: Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

Affordances, Mappings, User Models. Languages of interactivity.

Information Visualization

Focus + Context

Dynamic Navigation

example : liquid time
[Camille Utterback]

Liquid Time is an interactive installation in which a participant's physical motion in the installation space fragments time in a stored video clip.