Leader: Rita Raley

Group Members: Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Michael Mateas, Warren Sack, Peter Krapp, Kim Knight, William Huber, Kate Marshall, Irene Chien, Brooke Belisle, Ayhan Aytes, Lisa Swanstrom, Nicole Starosielski, Mike Treanor

This working group focuses on reading in the context of networked and multimedia communication environments. Some of our topics include text visualizations, alternative interfaces, immersive or VR environments for text.

Events

• Workshops & Colloquia




• Transliteracies New Reading Interfaces Group Symposium (May 12, 2007)

Working Papers

• Research Reports related to New Reading Interfaces


• Objects for Study Related to New Reading Interfaces


• Group Wiki

Friday, 28 December

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Missouri, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Association for Computers and the Humanities (full abstracts online)

Session organizer: Rita Raley, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

1. “Tag Clouds: Reading the Poetic Interface,” Jeremy H. Douglass, Univ. of California, San Diego

2. “Toward a Semantic Literary Web: Three Case Histories,” Joseph Paul Tabbi, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago

3. “Reading Shaw’s Legible City,” Elizabeth Swanstrom, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

4. “Reading the Margins of The Magic Book,” Sarah Jane Sloane, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins

5. “Texts in Virtual Contexts: Reading Scholarly Work in 3-D Environments,” Victoria E. Szabo, Duke Univ.

9 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Rita Raley (.mov | .wmv)

9:15 am – “On Reading Software”

• Noah Wardrip-Fruin (.ppt | .mov | .wmv)

9:45 am – Gaming

• Ayhan Aytes, “agoraXchange: Writing the next Constitution” (.mov | .wmv)
• Michael Treanor, “The Rhetoric of Newsgaming” (.ppt | .mov | .wmv)
• Irene Chien, “Reading Katamari Damacy.”
• William Huber, “Interface, Play and Performance in the Virtual Spaces of Final Fantasy XI” (.mov | .wmv)
• Discussion (.mov | .wmv)

12:00 – 1:00 pm – Lunch

1:00 – Text, Type, Interfaces

• Kim Knight, “Cognition and the Eclecticism of Interfaces” (.ppt | .mov | .wmv)
• Lisa Swanstrom, “Reading as Gathering” (.ppt | research report | .mov | .wmv)
• Kate Marshall, “New Reading Topographies” (.mov | .wmv)
• Brooke Belisle, “Reading Interfaces: NewsReader and Valence” (Valence research report | News Reader research report | .mov | .wmv)
• Discussion (.mov | .wmv)

3:30 – 4:00 pm – Break

4:00 pm – Review of Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface” (HASTAC report)

• Nicole Starosielski and Irene Chien (research paper | .mov | .wmv)

4:30 pm – Presentation of Vectors Proposal “Unbound: An Alternative Genealogy of the Reading Interface”

• Ayhan Aytes, Brooke Belisle, Nicole Starosielski, Lisa Swanstrom (.pdf | .mov | .wmv)

5:00 pm – “Transliteracies and Social Computing”

• Alan Liu (.mov | .wmv)

5:30 pm – Vectors for Past, Present, and Future Research

• Group discussion led by Rita Raley and Nicole Starosielski (.mov | .wmv)

7:00 pm – Dinner (off site)