Project Highlights

“Africa Past and Present” Podcast Audience Grows

afripod In August the MATRIX/History Department Africa Past and Present podcast, co-hosted by Peter Alegi and Peter Limb, set new records for unique visitors and for total number of visits in a single month. With four months left (and six more shows) in 2009, download stats are already nearly double the downloads from all of 2008. ...

Women in Science: New digital media archive

Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil's image from Institutions de Physique (1740) The Women in Science website is a new digital media archive that uses KORA, MATRIX’s digital repository application, to deliver text access to the written works of several women scientists, including the works of the marquise Du Châtelet, and biographies written by leading historians of science. The website is available through the participation and support of ...

User Experience Design

At its core, user experience design incorporates such as information architecture, interaction design, user interface design, user centered design, and visual design to positively impact the overall user experience with a particular system or device.  As such, user experience design cuts across the design for multiple domains and devices such as web pages, rich internet applications, rich interactive experiences, kiosks, interactive installations, and consumer communication devices such as mobile devices.