Diagrammatic Representation and Inference

by Goel, Ashok K.; Jamnik, Mateja; Narayanan, N. Hari

• ISBN13: 9783642145995
• ISBN10: 364214599X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-16
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams, Diagrams 2010, held in Portland, OR, USA, , in August 2010. The 22 revised papers and 23 poster papers presented together with 3 invited talks and 2 tutorial papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Euler and Venn diagrams, formal aspects of diagrams, reasoning with diagrams, interacting with diagrams, constructing diagrams, and understanding diagrams and text.

Table of Contents

Invited Talks
Diagrams in the Mind: Visual or Spatial?	p. 1
Understanding Diagrams, and More: The Computer's View	p. 2
Tutorials
Diagrams: A Perspective from Logic (Invited Talk)	p. 3
Drawing Euler Diagrams for Information Visualization (Invited Talk)	p. 4
Graduate Student Symposium
The Graduate Student Symposium of Diagrams 2010 (Invited Talk)	p. 5
Euler and Venn Diagrams
The Efficacy of Euler and Venn Diagrams in Deductive Reasoning: Empirical Findings	p. 6
Drawing Euler Diagrams with Circles	p. 23
Coloured Euler Diagrams: A Tool for Visualizing Dynamic Systems and Structured Information	p. 39
Drawing Area-Proportional Venn-3 Diagrams with Convex Polygons	p. 54
Formal Aspects of Diagrams
Fragments of Spider Diagrams of Order and Their Relative Expressiveness	p. 69
A Calculus for Graphs with Complement	p. 84
Two Types of Diagrammatic Inference Systems: Natural Deduction Style and Resolution Style	p. 99
Reasoning with Diagrams
Alternative Strategies for Spatial Reasoning with Diagrams	p. 115
Relating Two Image-Based Diagrammatic Reasoning Architectures	p. 128
A Spatial Search Framework for Executing Perceptions and Actions in Diagrammatic Reasoning	p. 144
Toward a Physics of Equations	p. 160
Interacting with Diagrams
Usability of Accessible Bar Charts	p. 167
Diagram Editing on Interactive Displays Using Multi-touch and Pen Gestures	p. 182
Constructing Diagrams
The Effects of Perception of Efficacy and Diagram Construction Skills on Students' Spontaneous Use of Diagrams When Solving Math Word Problems	p. 197
Hi-tree Layout Using Quadratic Programming	p. 212
Understanding Diagrams and Text
Recognizing the Intended Message of Line Graphs	p. 220
Mapping Descriptive Models of Graph Comprehension into Requirements for a Computational Architecture: Need for Supporting Imagery Operations	p. 235
Getting a Clue: Gist Extraction from Scenes and Causal Systems	p. 243
Attention Direction in Static and Animated Diagrams	p. 250
Tactile Diagrams: Worth Ten Thousand Words?	p. 257
The Effects of Signals on Learning from Text and Diagrams: How Looking at Diagrams Earlier and More Frequently Improves Understanding	p. 264
An Attention Based Theory to Explore Affordances of Textual and Diagrammatic Proofs	p. 271
Posters
Effects of Graph Type in the Comprehension of Cyclic Events	p. 279
VCL, a Visual Language for Modelling Software Systems Formally	p. 282
Visualizing Student Game Design Project Similarities	p. 285
Are Pixel Graphs are Better at Representing Information than Pie Graphs?	p. 288
Thinking with Words and Sketches - Analyzing Multi-modal Design Transcripts Along Verbal and Diagrammatic Data	p. 292
How Diagram Interaction Supports Learning: Evidence from Think Alouds during Intelligent Tutoring	p. 295
Creating a Second Order Diagrammatic Logic	p. 298
An Attention Based Theory to Explore the Cognitive Affordances of Diagrams Relative to Text	p. 301
How Does Text Affect the Processing of Diagrams in Multimedia Learning?	p. 304
An Experiment to Evaluate Constraint Diagrams with Novice Users	p. 307
"Graph-as-Picture" Misconceptions in Young Students	p. 310
What Students Include in Hand-Drawn Diagrams to Explain Seasonal Temperature Variation	p. 313
Diagrammatic Specification of Mobile Real-Time Systems	p. 316
Manipulatable Models for Investigating Processing of Dynamic Diagrams	p. 319
Can Text Content Influence the Effectiveness of Diagrams?	p. 322
Attending to and Maintaining Hierarchical Objects in Graphics Comprehension	p. 325
Modelling English Spatial Preposition Detectors	p. 328
Diagram Interpretation and e-Learning Systems	p. 331
An Examination of Cleveland and McGill's Hierarchy of Graphical Elements	p. 334
Does Manipulating Molecular Models Promote Representation Translation of Diagrams in Chemistry?	p. 338
Heterogeneous Reasoning in Real Arithmetic	p. 345
"The Molecules are Inside the Atoms": Students' Personal External Representations of Matter	p. 349
Discovering Perceptions of Personal Social Networks through Diagrams	p. 352
Author Index	p. 355
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