Besides Working Group participation, this portion of your grade also includes participation in class discussions, and interaction with a variety of other student presentations.

• Spring 97 final projects (class mainly undergraduate students)
• Winter 96 final projects (class mainly humanities and social science students)
• Fall 96 final projects (class mainly MBA students)

You will need to complete a number of short assignments. The most significant of these are listed below.

Evaluation of Multimedia


We will explore how to evaluate multimedia programs.
• Readings on Multimedia Evaluation
  • references from SIMS WebSite Design course
  • Interface Design for Sun's Website
  • WebCHI: A guide to HCI issues of the Web (especially see Design, Design, Design
  • Criteria for Evaluation of Internet Information Resources, Victoria University of Wellington, Advanced Information Retrieval course
  • Software Evaluation Instrument, Children's Software Revue
• You will read at least 2 evaluations of multimedia programs
• You will find guidelines or criteria for reviewing multimedia programs
• You will find guidelines or criteria for reviewing other types of works
• As a class, we will go through various evaluation criteria.
• Students will gain an appreciation of the various component parts that go into making a multimedia program successful.

Science Fiction Assignment

Viewings During the course of the semester, all students will watch at least two science fiction films and report back to the class (and/or discuss these within their focus groups):

• One film from the past (1950s or before) to examine whether past visions of future information technologies have come true:
  Metropolis (1927), *Things to Come (1936), Just Imagine (1930), *Wonderful World of Tomorrow (1939), Time Machine (1960), War of the Worlds (1953), Charleston (1927, Renoir), Transatlantic Tunnel (1935), *Woman in the Moon (Lang, 1929), Aelita (1924), *You Can't Get There From Here: Ephemeral Films 1946-60 (1987), To New Horizons: Ephemeral Films 1931-45 (1987), Fantastic Planet (1973)

• One relatively modern film that contains visions of future information technologies:
  Emphasis on how collective memory/information will be handled, stored, destroyed: The Net (1995), Total Recall (1990), Rollerball (1975), *Farenheit 451 (1967), *1984 (1956, 1984), *Forbidden Planet (1956), Solaris (1972), Dreamscape (1984), Death Watch (1980), *Outer Limits (Robert Culp)

  Emphasis on how major aspects of society will change due to new information technologies: Johnny Mnemonic (1995), They Live (1988), Wild Palms (1993), Until the End of the World (1991), *Bladerunner (1982), Brazil (1985), Terminator (1984), *T-2 (1991)

  Examination of future societies and capabilities: The Jetsons (1990), *THX-1138 (1971), *Star Wars Trilogy (1977, 1980, 1983), *2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Born in Flames (1982), Tron (1982)

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