[Sigia-l] Dissertation about Information Architecture Projects Methodologies

[Guilhermo Reis]

Dear all,

I finished my master degree in Information Science here in Brazil and the
theme was Information Architecture :-)

The study analyzes information architecture projects methodologies of
websites under the focus of User Centered Design approaches of Information
Science and Human-Computer Interaction. The adopted methodology included a
literature review, to formulate a theoric model to analyze information
architecture project methodologies, and two empirical researches. The first
one was a quantitative research, based on an on-line questionnaire which
aimed at mapping the profile of information architects in Brazilian
discussion lists. The second one was a qualitative research, in which the
Sense-making approach was applied to map the difficulties, techniques and
methodologies found in information architecture projects of websites.

In my website there is an abstract (in English) and a pdf file with full
text to download (in Portuguese). The URL is
http://www.guilhermo.com/mestrado/centrando_arquitetura_de_informacao_no_usuario_en.asp

Thanks,

............................ Guilhermo
www.guilhermo.com