Multidisciplinary Approaches to Visual Representations and Interpretations (eBook)
450 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-053713-9 (ISBN)
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
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 "e;the visual"e; 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 "e;the visual"e; representation of information
Cover 1
Contents 20
Dedication 6
Editor's preface 8
List of contributors 16
Part I: Visual representations in science 24
Chapter 1. Visualisation, inference and explanation in the sciences, 24
Chapter 2. The representation of naïve knowledge about physics 50
Chapter 3. Convention, resemblance and isomorphism: understanding scientific visual representations 60
Chapter 4. Emerging descriptions in molecular biology 72
Chapter 5. Modular design of the liver of the rat 86
Chapter 6. The Heisenberg group as a fundamental structure in nature 92
Part II: Signs and systems 106
Chapter 7. Information visualisation and semiotic morphisms 106
Chapter 8. Iconicity and "direct interpretation" 122
Chapter 9. Diagrammatic logic and game-playing 138
Chapter 10. Mobilising knowledge models using societies of graphs 158
Chapter 11. Verbal and visual cues for navigating mental space: conceptual mappings and discourse processing theory 170
Chapter 12. Sounds, signs, and rapport: on the methodological importance of a multi-modal approach to discourse analysis 188
Chapter 13. Visual representation of text in Web documents and its interpretation 204
Part lII: Communication and learning 220
Chapter 14. Component modes of graphical communication 220
Chapter 15. Interlopers, translators, scribes, and seers: anthropology, knowledge representation and Bayesian statistics for predictive modelling in multidisciplinary science and engineering projects 234
Chapter 16. Developments in the use of a visual metaphor with reference to clinical problems 252
Chapter 17. A descriptive framework for designing interaction for visual abstractions 262
Chapter 18. Visualising, interacting and experimenting with lattices using a diagrammatic representation 278
Chapter 19. Labscape for education: Ballard High School Pilot Project 292
Chapter 20. Teaching to see like a mathematician 302
Part IV: Drawing 316
Chapter 21. Visualisation and Wittgenstein's "Tractatus" 316
Chapter 22. Using design structure matrices in visualising design processes 328
Chapter 23. Vision and drawing in design 342
Chapter 24. Sketching behaviour in object recall and object copying 352
Part V: Seeing and responding 366
Chapter 25. Do we like what we see? 366
Chapter 26. The unity of colour: a quasi-functionalist proposal 380
Chapter 27. Art and post-genomic medicine 390
Chapter 28. The strategy of visual irritation: forms of ambiguous representation in contemporary art 396
Chapter 29. Interaction of people and machines as a narrative and visual figure in film: a study of motifs 412
Chapter 30. Computational modelling of creativity in abstract art 430
Index 448
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.12.2004 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber |
Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken | |
Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
Technik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-08-053713-8 / 0080537138 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-08-053713-9 / 9780080537139 |
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