INFO 424

Information Visualization and Aesthetics

  • Tuesday 3:30 - 4:20, MGH 254
  • Wednesday 2:30 - 4:20, MGH 430 (Computer lab)
  • Thursday 2:30 - 4:20, MGH 254

Instructor: Terrence A. Brooks

Visual information is explored from the point of view of

  • Aesthetics, the systematic study of visual style and perception
  • Expressibility, the systematic study of written words, iconography and visual meaning
  • Visualization devices, tools and the eye as an optic device

The Allegory of Painting


One Technologies
Two Aesthetics
Three Expressibility
Four Visualization Strategies


Assignments, Readings and Grading