Structure and Semantics of Arrow Diagrams

Kurata, Yohei; Egenhofer, Max J.

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“…Arrows have been studied extensively in the context of abstract graphic representations like diagrams, maps and learning animations (Heiser & Tversky 2006;Kurata & Egenhofer 2005;Tversky 2000Tversky , 2002Tversky, Zacks, Lee & Heiser 2000). The effect of arrows suggesting motion is clearly shown by Heiser and Tversky (2006), who asked participants to verbally explain diagrams representing mechanical systems (such as a bicycle pump).…”

Section: Static Pictures As Carriers Of Dynamic Health Messagesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…A prototypical device is the use of arrows. 1 Arrows can be used to express different meanings and relations: change over time, pointing, direction, transformation, causation, connection or drawing attention (Horn 1998;Kurata & Egenhofer 2005;Tversky, Zacks, Lee & Heiser 2000). In all these cases, arrows suggest dynamics, ranging from concrete spatial motion to abstract processes, and are located either within the depicted scene itself, or in the relation between the viewer and the visual representation (e.g.…”

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Suggesting motion in health communication pictures: The effect of pictorial and extra-pictorial manipulation

2009

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The static character of pictures often contrasts sharply with the dynamic nature of the message they are meant to convey. Suggesting motion in static pictures is particularly important in communicative contexts in which vital messages and instructions need to be transmitted, for example in the context of health-intervention programmes. Pictures are often the main carriers of health-related messages, for instance when oral or video transmission is not available, or when written information is not accessible because the target group lacks the necessary reading skills. The present study investigates the effect of different design strategies used to suggest motion in static pictures. It compares the suggestive manipulation of iconic pictorial elements (i.e. the suggestive depiction of body parts, bodily expressions and postures) with the use of extra-pictorial (noniconic) devices (such as movement lines or arrows). In study 1, two groups of respondents were presented with one of two versions of the same motion-suggesting pictures: pictures with hands only, and pictures with hands and arrows added. In study 2, an extra group of respondents was exposed to a third version of the same pictures: pictures with arrows only. The results of study 1 reveal that the use of arrows results in a somewhat better recognition of motion and intended motion. However, this effect is small and applies mainly to respondents with relatively higher literacy levels. The results of study 2 show that arrows alone are far less efficient as motion cues than the other two variants. Furthermore, the comments of respondents reveal that arrows are noticed and mentioned far less often as motion cues than body parts or objects involved in the action.

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Section: Static Pictures As Carriers Of Dynamic Health Messagesmentioning

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Section: Static Pictures As Carriers Of Dynamic Health Messagesmentioning

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Suggesting motion in health communication pictures: The effect of pictorial and extra-pictorial manipulation

2009

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“…Lines and arrows can be used to denote relations or dynamic information between or among georaphic objects. The components of geographic knowledge map are something like that of arrow diagrams described by Kurata and Egenhofer [10,11], except the strucure of knowledge map is more complecated.…”

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Geographic knowledge map and its application in seismic knowledge representation

Yao

Pei

et al. 2009

2009 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics

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The paper proposes a concept of geographic knowledge map, which represents spatial-temporal knowledge, and dispalys our cognition about the geographic world. The conceptual framework of geographic knowledge map is described. It is structured diagram with semantics and syntax, and is computale. It is not only a way to visualize geographic knowledge, but also a form of graphic knowledge representation and a method of data mining and knowledge discovery. With computation, we can transfer the knowledge it represnts into foraml language description. Finally, an application of geographic knowlege map to seismic knowledge representation is studied.

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“…To tackle this problem, we first develop a method for making rough interpretation of an arrow diagram from its structural pattern alone. As the foundation of this method, this section summarizes the formal structures of arrow diagrams developed by Kurata and Egenhofer (2005).…”

Section: Structures Of Arrow Diagramsmentioning

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“…Each component in an arrow diagram is uniquely assigned to one of these three slots, thereby making the distinction of tail components, body components, and head components. The component slots need to be distinguished, because the same symbols, used in different slots, illustrate significantly different semantics (Kurata and Egenhofer 2005). …”

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Spatial Information Theory

2005

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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PrefaceThis volume contains the papers presented at the "Conference on Spatial Information Theory", held in Ellicottville, New York in September 2005. COSIT 2005 was the 7th International Conference held under the COSIT name. When Andrew Frank and his colleagues organized the first COSIT conference on the island of Elba, Italy, in 1993, it represented the maturing of an international research community that had already met four or five times in the United States, Spain, and Italy. Of course, cognitive and computational approaches to space and spatial phenomena were not themselves new topics, but a context of providing theoretical underpinning for geographic information systems refocused some of these researchers and brought them up against practical and conceptual challenges.

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Structure and Semantics of Arrow Diagrams

Cited by 13 publications

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Suggesting motion in health communication pictures: The effect of pictorial and extra-pictorial manipulation

Suggesting motion in health communication pictures: The effect of pictorial and extra-pictorial manipulation

Geographic knowledge map and its application in seismic knowledge representation

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