Multidisciplinary Approaches to Visual Representations and Interpretations

✍ Scribed by Grant Malcolm (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier, Academic Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 451
• Series: Studies in Multidisciplinarity 2
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The value of multi-disciplinary research lies in the exchange of ideas and methods across the traditional boundaries between areas of study. It could be argued that many of the advances in science and engineering take place because the ideas, methods and the tools of thought from one discipline become re-applied in another.The topic of "the visual" has become increasingly important as advances in technology have led to multi-media and multi-modal representations, and extended the range and scope of visual representation and interpretation in our lives. Under this broad heading there are many different perspectives and approaches, from across the entire spectrum of human knolwedge and activity.The editors and authors of this book aim to break down cross-disciplinary barriers, by bringing together people working in a wide variety of disciplines where visual representations and interpretations are exploited. Contributions come from researchers actively investigating visual representations and interpretations in a wide variety of areas, including art history, biology, clinical science, cognitive science, computer science, design, engineering, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, physics, psychology, and sociology.The book provides a forum for wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary contributions on visual representations and interpretations. * Contributors include researchers actively investigating visual representations and interpretations Content spans a wide variety of areas including but not limited to biology, sociology, and computer science Discusses how new technology has affected "the visual" representation of information

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Dedication
Page v

Editor's preface
Pages vii-xiii
Grant Malcolm

Contributors
Pages xv-xvii

1 Visualisation, inference and explanation in the sciences Original Research Article
Pages 1-25
David Gooding

2 The representation of naïve knowledge about physics Original Research Article
Pages 27-36
M. Bertamini, A. Spooner, H. Hecht

3 Convention, resemblance and isomorphism: understanding scientific visual representations Original Research Article
Pages 37-47
Laura Perini

4 Emerging descriptions in molecular biology Original Research Article
Pages 49-61
J.H. Parish

5 Modular design of the liver of the rat Original Research Article
Pages 63-67
Harald F. Teutsch

6 The Heisenberg group as a fundamental structure in nature Original Research Article
Pages 69-81
Ernst Binz, Sonja Pods, Walter Schempp

7 Information visualisation and semiotic morphisms Original Research Article
Pages 83-97
Joseph A. Goguen, D. Fox Harrell

8 Iconicity and “direct interpretation” Original Research Article
Pages 99-113
Jesse Norma

9 Diagrammatic logic and game-playing Original Research Article
Pages 115-133
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen

10 Mobilising knowledge models using societies of graphs Original Research Article
Pages 135-146
R.C. Paton

11 Verbal and visual cues for navigating mental space: conceptual mappings and discourse processing theory Original Research Article
Pages 147-163
J. Luchjenbroers

12 Sounds, signs, and rapport: on the methodological importance of a multi-modal approach to discourse analysis Original Research Article
Pages 165-180
P. Carroll, J. Luchjenbroers, S. Parker

13 Visual representation of text in web documents and its interpretation Original Research Article
Pages 181-196
D. Karatzas, A. Antonacopoulos

14 Component modes of graphical communication Original Research Article
Pages 197-210
John Lee

15 Interlopers, translators, scribes, and seers: anthropology, knowledge representation and Bayesian statistics for predictive modelling in multidisciplinary science and engineering projects Original Research Article
Pages 211-228
Deborah Leishman, Laura McNamara

16 Developments in the use of a visual metaphor with reference to clinical problems Original Research Article
Pages 229-238
C.A. Lund, R.C. Paton

17 A descriptive framework for designing interaction for visual abstractions Original Research Article
Pages 239-254
K. Sedig, J. Morey

18 Visualising, interacting and experimenting with lattices using a diagrammatic representation Original Research Article
Pages 255-268
K. Sedig, J. Morey, R. Mercer, W.W. Wilson

19 Labscape for education: Ballard high school pilot project Original Research Article
Pages 269-277
L. Jenschke, N. Fangera, L. Arnstein

20 Teaching to see like a mathematician Original Research Article
Pages 279-292
Walter Whiteley

21 Visualisation and wittgenstein's “Tractatus” Original Research Article
Pages 293-303
Michael A.R. Biggs

22 Using design structure matrices in visualising design processes Original Research Article
Pages 305-317
Elias August, Claudia Eckert, P. John Clarkson

23 Vision and drawing in design Original Research Article
Pages 319-328
Chris Rose

24 Sketching behaviour in object recall and object copying Original Research Article
Pages 329-342
Isabelle M.S. Ferreira, Linden J. Ball, Tim Friede, Stephen A.R. Scrivener

25 Do we like what we see? Original Research Article
Pages 343-356
Richard Latto

26 The unity of colour: a quasi-functionalist proposal Original Research Article
Pages 357-366
P. Bradley

27 Art and post-genomic medicine Original Research Article
Pages 367-372
Sylvia B. Nagl

28 The strategy of visual irritation: forms of ambiguous representation in contemporary art Original Research Article
Pages 373-388
Nina Zschocke

29 Interaction of people and machines as a narrative and visual figure in film: a study of motifs Original Research Article
Pages 389-406
Andrea Gschwendtner

30 Computational modelling of creativity in abstract art Original Research Article
Pages 407-424
Mike Holcombe, Samantha Smith, Rowan Merewood, Andy Swingeford

Index
Pages 425-427