Communication Design Quarterly Feb 2018

Digital humanities, middleware, and user experience design for public health applications

J. D. Applen ; Sonia H. Stephens

Abstract

Technical communicators should be conscious of how the algorithms that govern "middleware" (software that structures the presentation of data) constrain their ability to represent information. We use critical theory from the digital humanities to discuss how critical visual literacy allows designers to better present contextual information to enhance the user experience. We illustrate this approach with an example of medical communication by using social network analysis software to demonstrate the spread of Ebola in Africa.

Journal
Communication Design Quarterly
Published
2018-02-16
DOI
10.1145/3188173.3188176
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Topics
digital rhetoric multimodality technical communication

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