Students This course is open to HCI and Design graduate students and senior-level Design students. Students need a basic knowledge of communication and interaction design. Experience with interactive prototyping, digital video editing, and graphic layout are encouraged but not required. Course Description When viewers watch a TV news story, they never see the whole story. Instead they see, a short synopsis of the back-story, a quick update of the latest findings, and speculations on the future outcome. Will he be found guilty? Will she be re-elected? Will the hurricane damage more property than last time? What viewers never get from TV news is a complete view of how a story evolves over time from beginning to end. In this project course students will work in small teams to develop visualizations of both individual current news stories as well as the evolution of these stories over time. Working with a small set of CNN video clips, students will produce both static and interactive visualizations that offer insights into the story that a traditional linear video broadcast can never provide. In much the same way Minard's map on Napolean's march to Moscow captures an entire story in a single image, students will work to reveal the relevant features that best communicate both what is happening in the individual news story as well as the larger story evolving over many weeks.
