Research
Seminar at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Computational Linguistics, Spring 1997.
READINGS:
I. Visualization.
Zenon Kulpa: "Diagrammatic representation and reasoning."
Proceedings GKPO '94, Spala, Poland, May 16–20, 1994.
Michael Twyman: "A schema for the study of graphic language."
In: P.A. Kolers, M.E. Wrolstad and H. Bouman (eds.): Processing
of Visible Language, Volume 1, pp. 117–150. New York: Plenum
Press, 1979.
Jacques Bertin: "The Graphic Sign System. (A Semiological Approach
to Graphics.)"
Yuri Engelhardt: "Towards a Design Theory for Visualization."
Eduard Hovy and Yigal Arens: "When is a Picture worth a Thousand
Words? Allocation of Modalities in Multimedia Communication."
Working Notes: AAAI Spring Symposium on Knowledge-Based Human-Computer
Communication, Stanford University, 1990.
Jock Mackinlay: "Automating the design of graphical presentations
of relational information." ACM Transactions on Graphics,
Vol. 5 (1986), No. 2.
Steven F. Roth, Mei C. Chuah, Stephan Kerpedjiev, John Kolojejchick
and Peter Lucas: "Towards an Information Visualization Workspace:
Combining Multiple Means of Expression."
Jos de Bruin, Pascal de Vink and Jarke van Wijk: "M – a
Visual Simulation Tool." In: Simulation in the Medical Sciences,
San Diego: Society for Computer Simulation, 1996, pp. 181–186.
Klaus Reichenberger, Thomas Kamps and Gene Golovchinsky: "Towards
a Generative Theory of Diagram Design." In: Proceedings InfoVis'95,
Atlanta, 1995.
Michelle X. Zhou and Steven K. Feiner: "Data Characterization
for Automatically Visualizing Heterogeneous Information." In:
Proceedings InfoVis'96 (1996 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization),
San Francisco, CA, 1996, pp. 13–20.
Mei C. Chuah and Steven F. Roth: "On the Semantics of Interactive
Visualizations."
Mehdi Dastani: "An Algebraic Approach to Data Visualization."
Ms., Department of Computational Linguistics, ILLC, University of
Amsterdam, 1997.
II.
Perception.
Max Wertheimer: "Laws of Organization in Peceptual Forms."
[English Translation of: "Untersuchungen zur Lehre von der Gestalt",
II, Psychologische Forschung 4 (1923), pp. 301 –350.]
In: Willis D. Ellis (ed.): A Source Book of Gestalt Psychology.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Joseph Marks and Ehud Reiter: "Avoiding unwanted implicatures
in text and graphics." In: Thomas Dietterich and William Swartout
(eds.): Proceedings of the Eight National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, Boston, 1990, pp. 450–456. AAAI / MIT Press.
Rens Bod and Remko Scha: "Deriving optimal
network diagrams by means of structural information theory." In:
Rens Bod, Mehdi Dastani, Hub Prüst, Remko Scha and Henk Zeevat
(eds.): HCI from a Discourse Perspective. ESPRIT Report (Basic
Research Action P6296). Human Communication Research Centre,
Edinburgh University, 1993.
Peter A. van der Helm: "The dynamics of Prägnanz."
Psychological Research 56 (1994), pp. 224–236.
Steven Pinker: "A Theory of Graph Comprehension." In: Roy
Freedle (ed.): Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Testing,
pp. 73–126. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990.
Mehdi Dastani: "Computing the Perceptual Organization of Visual
Patterns."
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