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Personalized Information Delivery
Professor: Dr. Luz M. Quiroga
Study of the components of personalized information systems: information filtering systems with emphasis on modeling and representation of documents, queries, user information preferences, and user-system interaction. Topics include advanced Information Retrieval (IR) models, metadata and markup languages, query operations, thesaurus based IR, acquisition of user profiles, and user/system performance evaluation.
 
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Information Architecture
Professor: Dr. Luz M. Quiroga
Information Architecture is a field dealing with the human centered design of web sites. As architects and engineers prepare blueprints of the building they construct, information architects build a sketch of a website based on users requirements and combine functionality, aesthetic, findability and usability elements.
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Medical Informatics I
Professor: Dr. Dennis Streveler
Introduction to the field of medical informatics, which is found at the intersection of clinical science, public health, information science, computer technology and communications technology.
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Advanced HCI Design Methods
Professor: Dr. Daniel Suthers
Advanced analytical and empirical methods for the design and evaluation of usable, useful, and robust human-computer interfaces. Students will apply selected methodologies to a major system design project.
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System Analysis for Information Management
Professor: Dr. Luz M. Quiroga
Overview of systems analysis; its techniques, benefits and limitations. Focus on libraries and information agencies, although concepts are applicable to other settings. Structured, top-down solutions stressed throughout. Object oriented techniques and data modeling tools are reviewed.
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Data Security
Professor: Dr. Wes Peterson
Symmetric encryption algorithms, secure hashing, algorithms, unicity distance, large number and finite field algebra and arithmetic, public key algorithms for encryption, digital signatures, and key exchange.
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Technology Supported Collaboration and Online Communities
Professor: Dr. Daniel Suthers
An advanced introduction to the design of human-computer systems and other technological artifacts for supporting human collaboration in learning, work, and social contexts, and to theoretical perspectives and empirical studies of collaboration that inform such design.
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Human Computer Interaction II
Professor: Dr. Brent Auernheimer
Studies of human performance in designing and using information systems. Emphasizes concepts and methodologies from human factors, psychology, and software engineering relating to human performance.
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