Color Usage in Information display graphics
This Page of the NASA about Color Usage offers a wide range of sources and knowledge concerning colour as a method to encode data in Information Design,

Private Report about a Paris Sound Design Workshop in Paris in 2002. Part of this Workshop has been an often quoted paper about “Designing Urgency into Sound” by Judy Edworthy (PDF). A year before, there has been a paper about Earcons in Motion - Defining Language for an intelligent Mobile Device (PDF).

What is an emotion? More than 90 definitions have been offered over the past century, and there are almost as many theories of emotion not to mention a complex array of overlapping words in our languages to describe them. Plutchik offers an integrative theory based on evolutionary principles. Emotions are adaptive in fact, they have a complexity born of a long evolutionary history and although we conceive of emotions as feeling states, Robert Plutchik developped The Nature of Emotions showing that the feeling state is part of a process involving both cognition and behavior and containing several feedback loops.
Another model that is conceptually similar to Plutchik’s “color wheel” model is the tree-like taxonomy proposed by Philip Shaver and his colleagues based on research they conducted with college students. The students rated 213 emotion terms for how typical they are and how much emotion they convey. On the basis of the students’ descriptions, the researchers arrived at 5 to 6 clusters that they believe represent basic emotion categories. The figure below presents the treelike, hierarchical nature of the students’ descriptions of how “emotional” they perceive the emotion like words to be, with overlapping terms falling within the basic categories.

Die Online-Präsenz der National Gallery of Art, die auf den ersten Blick bieder und konventionell erscheint, ist bei genauerer Betrachtung die Schnittstelle zu sehr umfangreichen Ressourcen.
Zum einen wird ausführlich (Pflicht) über das Museum, seine Hintergründe informiert. Dann kann man die gesamte Sammlung durchsuchen, wobei hier etwas mehr Visualität wünschenswert wäre. Ein interessanter Bereich ist der Classroom, in dem es sogenannte “Featured Lessons” gibt. Die Inhalte bzw. zentrale Elemente dieser Lessons sind -als Touren- wieder gezielt über einen “Ressource Finder” zugänglich. Zwei interaktive “Spiele” runden dieses Angebot ab.
Kindern kommt -nicht zuletzt durch dern Bereich NGA KIDS- eine große Bedeutung zu.
Was fehlt ist der deutliche Bezug zu dem Ort (Topos) - also dem Museum selbst um die beiden Erlebniswelten -virtuell und real- in einen spannungsvollen Bezug zu setzen.
Das schaffen eben nur wenige Museen - und man knüpft hier immer an die Frage nach der Bedeutung und Ausprägung der Erlebnisqualitä in Museen an…

Check out Exxon Secrets, a new website designed for Greenpeace by Josh On and Amy Balkin. Their brilliant “They Rule” interface has been adapted for a database that tracks Exxon funding to a series of individuals and institutions that “have worked to undermine solutions to global warming and climate change”.