Digital Design

Books:

Finding books:

Use UC Library Catalog to locate books, periodical titles, videos, and other materials owned by UC, and the OhioLINK Catalog for items owned by other Ohio college libraries.

Subject search terms using Library of Congress Subject Headings:

Computer animation
Computer games
Computer games -- Design
Computer graphics
Digital art
Video games
Video games -- Design
Cinematography -- Special effects

Specific books on Design Research:

Design research : methods and perspectives / Brenda Laurel, editor

Branding @ the digital age / edited by Herbert Meyers and Richard Gerstman

Handbook of Research On Educational Communications and Technology

International Design Thinking Research Symposium (4th : 1999 : Cambridge, Mass.)

Journals:

The DAAP Library currently subscribes to:

Animation
Cinefex
CMYK
Computer Arts
Computer Graphics World
Game Developer
Juxtapoz
Step inside Design
Wired

The library subscribes to hundreds of electronic journals. To access full-text journals available through the library subscriptions, go to the library full-text journal finder: Full Text Journal List  NOTE if you are accessing this resource off campus and do not have Internet Service through UC dial up - you first must click on Off Campus Access

Some of the journals that are relevant to design research that are available online include:

Information Design Journal

Human-computer interaction

Visible Language

Journal of Consumer Psychology

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Ergonomics

Internet Research

Information Processing and Management

Document design : journal of research and problem solving in organizational communication

Human Factors

Behaviour & information technology

SBS digital design

Indexes

The following indexes may be useful to locate specific articles and studies on human factors and computer interaction.

Computers & Applied Sciences Complete Connect
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers the spectrum of the applied sciences, representing knowledge on traditional engineering challenges and providing material for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology. CASC provides indexing and abstracting for academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources. Full Text is available for more than 500 periodicals. Subject areas include the many engineering disciplines, computer theory, and new technologies.

Design & Applied Arts Index Connect
Contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals published between 1973-2002, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, and firms. All areas of design and craft are covered, including industrial design, vehicle design, architecture, interior design, environmental design, computer aided design, furniture design, ceramics, glass, jewellery, metalsmithing, silversmithing, goldsmithing, fashion design, textile design, embroidery, graphic design, typography, multimedia design, illustration, book design, photography, advertising, marketing, retail design, packaging, exhibition design, theatre design, design and craft history, design and craft theory, ergonomics, design for disability, design for the elderly, design and craft education and design management.

Film & Television Literature Index Connect
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is a comprehensive bibliographic and full text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 270 publications (and selected coverage of more than 300), as well as full text for more than 70 journals and nearly 50 books

Academic Search Complete Connect
Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions includes more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. Academic Search Complete offers critical information from many sources unique to this massive collection. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.

Factiva Connect
Factiva's business information includes Dow Jones and Reuters Newswires and The Wall Street Journal, plus more than 8,000 other sources from around the world. These sources provide current news, historical articles, local-language articles, and stock quotes. Factiva provides access to more than 900 non-English sources. Factiva provides access to key content in 22 languages from 118 countries not available on the free Web. Many of the full-text articles go back to 1980.