Visualizing Information - Willamette Valley Chapter Workshop

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The Visualizing Information workshop will help you:

Use visualization to enhance your ability to think.
Compare the strengths and limits of the visual and verbal worlds.
Explore how these media interact with various thinking tasks.
Design a visual-verbal system so the strengths of one medium counter the weaknesses of the other.
Integrate visual and verbal message to increase your reader’s understanding of the information.
Look at a range of visualization formats including illustrations, icons, mind maps, decision diagrams, schematics, information maps, and dynamic visualizations.
Learn to use these formats to support the complex cognitive tasks of problem solving, analysis, and decision support and learning. Learn how to create a medium that communicates.

Visualizing Information
will help you examine the theory and practice of designing dynamic visualizations that clarify thinking, facilitate problem solving, and foster creativity. This interactive workshop teaches attendees to harness their visual and creative potential and to display this potential in the visual medium. Attendees learn to design a visual-verbal system where the strengths of one medium counter the weaknesses of the other. This complementary system integrates visual and verbal information, thereby dramatically improving the reader's understanding and retention of your technical communication.

Send e-mail or call by Monday, April 17, 4 pm.

Presenter(s): Dr. William Gribbons

Dr. William Gribbons is Director of the Human Factors and Information Design programs at Bentley College, where he teaches courses in human factors, usability engineering and user experience design. The Information Design Programs at Bentley are among the largest and most respected programs of this type in the country. Bill helped found the Design and Usability Center at the College, is an Associate Fellow of STC, and is a popular speaker at local and national conferences addressing issues of the user experience, human factors, and the user interface design.

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Date	April 21, 2006
Topic	Visualizing Information - Willamette Valley Chapter Workshop
Presenter(s)	Dr. William Gribbons
Time	8:30 - 5:00 Lunch and refreshments included
Location	Building 38, Tektronix 3025 Zworykin Avenue Beaverton, Oregon 97077 Complimentary parking is available next to Building 38