Special Topics: Designing Sociable Media
As taught in: Spring 2008
In Assignment 4, Designing Sociable Media students document their subjective experience of a 6-hour span of time. This image is an excerpt from Seth Hunter's work. (Courtesy of Seth Hunter. Used with permission.)
Instructors:
Prof. Judith Donath
MIT Course Number:
MAS.961
Level:
Graduate
Course Features
Course Highlights
Each assignment includes links to representative student work.
Course Description
This project-based course explores new design strategies for social interaction in the computer mediated world. Through weekly readings and design assignments we will examine topics such as:
- Data-based portraiture
- Depicting growth, change and the passage of time
- Visualizing conversations, crowds, and networks
- Interfaces for the connected city
- Mobile social technologies
The course emphasizes developing visual and interactive literacy.
