The Duke Campus: Campus MapsDuke recently launched a new on-line campus map that was designed and built largely by Duke undergraduates. The Duke University on-line campus map is the result of a unique collaboration between the seven undergraduate seniors of the 2005 Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS) 200 Research Capstone course and several members of the Duke University facilities and administration community. In January 2005, the ISIS 200 instructors, Casey Alt and Jessica Mitchell, assigned the interdisciplinary group of students the task of building a new on-line map for Duke, based upon actual project documents from an internal Duke needs assessment. The ISIS 200 instructors designed the course to simulate a small technology start-up company in which the students were the start-up staff, the Duke facilities and administration officials were their clients, and the course instructors were executive oversight. Within this structure, the students were given responsibility for the entire design and development process: designing the entire technology infrastructure and interface for the map, determining the project schedule for the map development, assigning team duties and project management roles, creating a project budget, integrating campus geographic and resource data from disparate university offices, and presenting and justifying design decisions to the Duke clients. Click here to visit the new Duke campus map. Other maps: |
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