Traffic & Transport

Part I

Special issue of Information Design Journal 17:2 (2009)

[Information Design Journal, 17:2] 2009. ii, 79 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/idj.17.2

Table of Contents

Introduction Peter Simlinger	83–84
Infoconnectivity: The value of certainty and uncertainty for interconnected transport networks Hermann Knoflacher	85–90
Making sense of the city: A collection of design principles for urban wayfinding Tim Fendley	91–108
Design impact on New York City parking signs: Motorists pay $600 million in parking violations Gordon Akwera	109–121
The RATP ticket vending machines Olivier Veyrune	122–127
Interview
An interview with Maish Nichani Saul Carliner	128–133
Hot Topics in Information Research and Design	134
Research challenges in internet cartography Michael P. Peterson	135–140
Medical nursing support pictograms Ashikawa Red Cross Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan 2008 Andreas Schneider	141–146
Research and Design Watch	147–151
The effect of visualizing the flow of multimedia content among and inside devices Jim Curran	148–149
Shall we dance? Dirk Knemeyer	149
On uncertainty in information architecture Dirk Knemeyer	149–150
A practitioner's guide to persuasion: An overview of 15 selected persuasion theories, models and frameworks Karel van der Waarde	150
The impact of the format of graphical presentation on health-related knowledge and treatment choices Karel van der Waarde	150
The machineries of context Dirk Knemeyer	150–151
Book Reviews
Tom Vanderbilt. Traffic: Why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us). Reviewed by Martin Fössleitner	152
Erwin K. Bauer & Dieter Mayer. Orientation & Indentity – Orientierung & Identity, Portraits of International Way Finding Systems / Porträaets internationaler Leitsysteme. Christian Lunger & Markus Scheiber. Orientierung auf Reisen, Touristische Leitsysteme. Reviewed by Peter Simlinger	153–154
Jean-luc Doumont. Trees, Maps, and Theorems: Effective communication for rational minds. Reviewed by Yateendra Joshi	155–156
Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant, with contributing authors Maxine S. Cohen and Steven M. Jacobs. Designing the User Interface. Reviewed by Aaron Marcus	157–158
Leonard Verhoef. Why designers can't understand their users: Developing a systematic approach using cognitive psychology. Reviewed by Peter Simlinger	159–160

Subjects

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Pragmatics

Psychology

Cognitive psychology