Automatic Visualization

Course at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Computational Linguistics,
Curriculum "Master of Logic", ILLC, 1999.

READINGS:

I. Visual Representation and Automatic Visualization.

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.

Steven F. Roth, Mei C. Chuah, Stephan Kerpedjiev, John Kolojejchick and Peter Lucas: "Towards an Information Visualization Workspace: Combining Multiple Means of Expression."

Mehdi Dastani: "An Algebraic Approach to Data Visualization." Ms., Department of Computational Linguistics, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 1997.

W. Winn: "Encoding and Retrieval of Information in Maps and Diagrams."

M. Averbuch et al.: "As You Like It: Tailorable Information Visualization."

C.M. Lewis: "Visualization and Situations."

Jos de Bruin and Remko Scha: "A Republic of Information Designers."


II. Multimedia Communication and Interactivity.

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.

Y. Arens, E. Hovy and M. Vossers: "On the Knowledge Underlying Multimedia Presentations."

Mei C. Chuah and Steven F. Roth: "On the Semantics of Interactive Visualizations."

Steven F. Roth et al.: "Interactive Graphic Design Using Automatic Presentation Knowledge."

Lisa Tweedle: "Characterizing Interactive Externalizations." Proceedings of CHI'97, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Atlanta, 1997, pp. 375–382.


III. Cognition and Perception.

Barbara Tversky: "Cognitive origins of graphic productions." In: F.T. Marchese (ed.): Understanding Images. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1995.

Barbara Tversky: "Cognitive Principles of Graphic Displays." In: Michael Anderson (ed.): Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations II. Papers from the AAAI 1997 Fall Symposium, pp. 116–124. AAAI, 1997.

Marian Petre: "Why looking isn't always seeing: Readership skills and graphic programming." Communications of the ACM, Vol. 38, No. 6 (June 1995).

M. Petre and T.R.G. Green: "Learning to Read Graphics: Some Evidence that 'Seeing' an Information Display is an Acquired Skill."

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.

Peter A. van der Helm: "The dynamics of Prägnanz." Psychological Research 56 (1994), pp. 224–236.

Mehdi Dastani: Languages of Perception. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Amsterdam, 1998. ILLC Dissertation Series 1998–05

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.


IV. Visual Programming and Specification Languages

K. Marriott, B. Meyer and K. Wittenberg: "A Survey of Visual Specification and Recognition."

Jan Rekers: "A definition of the graphical syntax of basic message sequence charts." Ms., Leiden University, The Netherlands, 1996.

J. Rekers and A. Schürr: "A graph grammar approach to graphical parsing." Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (VL'95), Darmstadt, Germany, 1995, pp. 195–202.

S. Üsküdarli and T. Dinesh: "Towards a visual programming environment generator for algebraic specifications."


V. Visual Reasoning.

Zenon Kulpa: "Diagrammatic representation and reasoning." Proceedings GKPO '94, Spala, Poland, May 16–20, 1994.

N. Hari Narayanan: "Diagrammatic Communication: A Taxonomic Overview."

C. Gurr, J. Lee and K. Stenning: " Theories of Diagrammatic Reasoning: Distinguishing Component Problems."

Jon Barwise and Atsushi Shimojima: "Surrogate Reasoning." Cognitive Studies. Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Society, 2, 4 (November 1995), pp. 7–27.

J. Barwise and J. Etchemendy: "Visual Information and Valid Reasoning."

Jon Barwise: "Hyperproof: An Excursion in Situated Logic."

Keith Stenning and Jon Oberlander: "Spatial Inclusion and Set Membership: A Case Study of Analogy at Work."

Dejuan Wang, John Lee and Henk Zeevat: "Reasoning with diagrammatic representations."