Diagrammatic Representation And Inference

by Barker-Plummer, Dave; Cox, Richard; Swoboda, Nik

• ISBN13: 9783540356233
• ISBN10: 3540356231
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-30
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams, Diagrams 2006, held in Stanford, CA, USA in June 2006.The 13 revised full papers, 9 revised short papers, and 12 extended abstracts presented together with 2 keynote papers and 2 tutorial papers were carefully reviewed and selected from about 80 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on diagram comprehension by humans and machines, notations: history, design and formalization, diagrams and education, reasoning with diagrams by humans and machines, as well as psychological issues in comprehension, production and communication.

Table of Contents

Keynote Presentations
The Importance of Both Diagrammatic Conventions and Domain-Specific Knowledge for Diagram Literacy in Science: The Hierarchy as an Illustrative Case
Laura R. Novick	1	(11)
Learning by Producing Diagrams
Daniel L. Schwartz	12	(1)
Tutorials
Eye Fixations and Diagrammatic Reasoning
Mary Hegarty	13	(3)
Cross-Cultural User-Experience Design
Aaron Marcus	16	(9)
Diagram Comprehension by Humans and Machines
Communicative Signals as the Key to Automated Understanding of Simple Bar Charts
Stephanie Elzer, Sandra Carberry, Seniz Demir	25	(15)
On Line Elaboration of a Mental Model During the Understanding of an Animation
Emmanuel Schneider, Jean-Michel Boucheix	40	(15)
From Diagrams to Models by Analogical Transfer
Patrick W. Yaner, Ashok K. Goel	55	(15)
Notations: History, Design and Formalization
The Mathematics of Boundaries: A Beginning
William Bricken	70	(3)
Syntactic Variety in Boundary Logic
William Bricken	73	(15)
Fixing Shin's Reading Algorithm for Peirce's Existential Graphs
Frithjof Dau	88	(5)
Canonical Correlation Analysis: Use of Composite Heliographs for Representing Multiple Patterns
Asaf Degani, Michael Shafto, Leonard Olson	93	(5)
Modularity and Composition in Propositional Statecharts
H.R. Dunn-Davies, R.J. Cunningham, S. Paurobally	98	(6)
Objects and Spaces: The Visual Language of Graphics
Yuri Engelhardt	104	(5)
Defining Euler Diagrams: Simple or What?
Andrew Fish, Gem Stapleton	109	(3)
Topological Relations of Arrow Symbols in Complex Diagrams
Yohei Kurata, Max J. Egenhofer	112	(15)
Extended Abstract of Euclid and His Twentieth Century Rivals: Diagrams in the Logic of Euclidean Geometry
Nathaniel Miller	127	(3)
Flow Diagrams: Rise and Fall of the First Software Engineering Notation
S.J. Morris, O.C.Z. Gotel	130	(15)
Reasoning by Intervals
Benedek Nagy	145	(3)
Generalizing Spiders
Gem Stapleton. John Howse, Kate Toller	148	(3)
Diagrams and Education
Diagrams in Second or Foreign Language Learning??!
Leonie Bosveld-de Smet	151	(3)
Evaluation of ER,ST - An External Representation Selection Tutor
Beate Grawemeyer	154	(14)
Changing Perceptions of Animated Diagrams
Richard Lowe	168	(5)
The Visual and Verbal as Modes to Express Understanding of the Human Body
Sindhu Mathai, Jayashree Ramadas	173	(3)
Interpreting Hierarchical Structure: Evidence from Cladograms in Biology
Laura R. Novick, Kefyn M. Catley	176	(5)
Active Comparison as a Means of Promoting the Development of Abstract Conditional Knowledge and Appropriate Choice of Diagrams in Math Word Problem Solving
Yuri Uesaka, Emmanuel Manalo	181	(15)
Reasoning with Diagrams by Humans and Machines
Synthesizing Visual and Action Routines Using Constraint Programming
Bonny Banerjee, B. Chandrasekaran	196	(3)
Deduction with Euler Circles: Diagrams That Hurt
Dustin P. Calvillo, Krista DeLeeuw, Russell Revlin	199	(5)
Diagrams as Physical Models
B. Chandrasekaran	204	(14)
Visual Creative Design with the Assistance of Curious Agents
Ewa Grabska, Katarzyna Grzesiak-Kopec, Grayita Slusarczyk	218	(3)
The Logic of Geometric Proof
Ron Rood	221	(5)
Exploring the Effect of Animation and Progressive Revealing on Diagrammatic Problem Solving
Daesub Yoon, N. Hari Narayanan, SooCheol Lee, Oh-Cheon Kwon	226	(15)
Psychological Issues in Comprehension, Production and Communication
Visual Focus in Computer-Assisted Diagrammatic Reasoning
Sven Bertel	241	(3)
Perceiving Relationships: A Physiological Examination of the Perception of Scatterplots
Lisa A. Best, Aren C. Hunter, Brandie M. Stewart	244	(14)
Using Research Diagrams for Member Validation in Qualitative Research
Nathan Crilly, P. John Clarkson, Alan F. Blackwell	258	(5)
Androcentric Preferences for Visuospatial Representations of Gender Differences
Peter Hegarty, Carmen Buechel, Simon Ungar	263	(4)
Exploring the Notion of 'Clutter' in Euler Diagrams
Chris John, Andrew Fish, John Howse, John Taylor	267	(16)
Using Channel Theory to Account for Graphical Meaning Generations
Atsushi Shimojima	283	(3)
Toward a Comprehensive Model of Graph Comprehension: Making the Case for Spatial Cognition
Susan Bell Trickett, J. Gregory Trafton	286	(15)
Author Index	301