Abstract
This paper proposes a starting point for understanding the material of information architecture practice, by answering the question, “What are we architecting when we practice information architecture?” I propose in summary form some ideas about how information architecture’s medium, information, can be usefully described in three modalities (physical, semantic, and digital), and how a full understanding of embodied cognition and affordance theory can help us connect the abstraction of language with structuring concrete, bodily experience.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
“Argus’ mission is to change the perception that information architecture pertains exclusively to the relationship of chunks of information within pages, as opposed to between pages”. See References.
References
AIFIA.org. (2002). The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (now the Information Architecture Institute). http://web.archive.org/web/20021031211246/http://www.aifia.org/pg/about_aifia.php. Accessed Jan 2014.
Arango, J. (2013). For the World Wide Web. http://www.jarango.com/blog/2013/06/28/for-the-world-wide-web/. Accessed Jan 2014.
Barrett, L. (2011a). Beyond the brain: How body and environment shape animal and human minds. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Barrett, L. (2011b). Embodiment: Taking sociality seriously. Video. University of Oxford Podcasts. http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/embodiment-taking-sociality-seriously. Accessed Jan 2014.
Bates, M. (2002). Toward an integrated model of information seeking and searching. Fourth international conference on information needs, seeking and use in different contexts, New review of information behaviour research, Issue 3, pp. 1–15.
Champeon, S. (1997). Lou Rosenfeld, web architect. A jaundiced eye. http://a.jaundicedeye.com/stuck/archive/050897/article.html. Accessed Jan 2014.
Clark, A. (2008). Supersizing the mind: Embodiment, action, and cognitive extension. New York: Oxford University Press.
Dang, H. D., & Allen, P. K. (2012). Semantic grasping: Planning robotic grasps functionally suitable for an object manipulation task. IEEE/RSJ International conference on intelligent robots and systems.
Evans, V. (2006). Lexical concepts, cognitive models and meaning-construction. Cognitive Linguistics, 17(4), 491–534.
Garrett, J. J. (2009) The memphis plenary. http://www.jjg.net/ia/memphis/. Accessed Dec 2013.
Gibson, J. J. (1979). The ecological approach to visual perception. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Hinton, A. (2002). 25 theses. http://iainstitute.org/en/learn/research/25_theses.php. Accessed Jan 2014.
Hobbs, J., Fenn, T., & Resmini, A. (2010). Maturing a practice. Journal of Information Architecture, 2(1), 37–54. (http://journalofia.org/volume2/issue1/04-hobbs//).
Morville, P. (2005). Ambient findability. Sebastopol: O’Reilly Media.
Resmini, A., & Rosati, L. (2011). Pervasive information architecture: Designing cross-channel user experiences. Burlington: Morgan Kaufmann.
Shannon, C. E. (1949). A mathematical theory of communication. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. (Reprinted with corrections from The Bell System Technical Journal, 27, 379–423, 623–656).
Turkle, S. (1995). Life on the screen: Identity in the age of the internet. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Wilson, A. (2011). Chemero (2009) Chapter 9—The metaphysics of radical embodiment. Notes from two scientific psychologists. http://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2011/06/chemero-2009-chapter-9-metaphysics-of.html. Accessed Jan 2014.
Wilson, A. D., & Golonka, S. (2013). Embodied cognition is not what you think it is. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 58. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00058.
Young, G. (2006). Are different affordances subserved by different neural pathways? Brain and Cognition, 62(2), 134–142. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2006.04.002).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Hinton, A. (2014). What We Make When We Make Information Architecture. In: Resmini, A. (eds) Reframing Information Architecture. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06492-5_8
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06492-5_8
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-06491-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-06492-5
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)