CSCI 5710 - Information Architecture

(3 credits)

Prerequisites: Admission to the computer science master’s degree program.

Surveys concerns related to the elicitation, structuring, and presentation of information, with particular focus on the Internet and its uses in e-commerce. Topics include information architecture in relation to e-commerce; content elicitation; mechanisms for aiding in content organization, such as ontologies, lexicons, and sitemaps; best practices for presenting information online; means of evaluating the effectiveness of information architectures.

When Offered: Fall, alternate years.

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