Multidisciplinary Approaches to Visual Representations and Interpretations
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contentsxix
- Dedicationv
- Editor's prefacevii
- List of contributorsxv
- Part I: Visual representations in science1
- Chapter 1. Visualisation, inference and explanation in the sciences,1
- Chapter 2. The representation of naïve knowledge about physics27
- Chapter 3. Convention, resemblance and isomorphism: understanding scientific visual representations37
- Chapter 4. Emerging descriptions in molecular biology49
- Chapter 5. Modular design of the liver of the rat63
- Chapter 6. The Heisenberg group as a fundamental structure in nature69
- Part II: Signs and systems83
- Chapter 7. Information visualisation and semiotic morphisms83
- Chapter 8. Iconicity and "direct interpretation"99
- Chapter 9. Diagrammatic logic and game-playing115
- Chapter 10. Mobilising knowledge models using societies of graphs135
- Chapter 11. Verbal and visual cues for navigating mental space: conceptual mappings and discourse pr147
- Chapter 12. Sounds, signs, and rapport: on the methodological importance of a multi-modal approach t165
- Chapter 13. Visual representation of text in Web documents and its interpretation181
- Part lII: Communication and learning197
- Chapter 14. Component modes of graphical communication197
- Chapter 15. Interlopers, translators, scribes, and seers: anthropology, knowledge representation and211
- Chapter 16. Developments in the use of a visual metaphor with reference to clinical problems229
- Chapter 17. A descriptive framework for designing interaction for visual abstractions239
- Chapter 18. Visualising, interacting and experimenting with lattices using a diagrammatic representa255
- Chapter 19. Labscape for education: Ballard High School Pilot Project269
- Chapter 20. Teaching to see like a mathematician279
- Part IV: Drawing293
- Chapter 21. Visualisation and Wittgenstein's "Tractatus"293
- Chapter 22. Using design structure matrices in visualising design processes305
- Chapter 23. Vision and drawing in design319
- Chapter 24. Sketching behaviour in object recall and object copying329
- Part V: Seeing and responding343
- Chapter 25. Do we like what we see?343
- Chapter 26. The unity of colour: a quasi-functionalist proposal357
- Chapter 27. Art and post-genomic medicine367
- Chapter 28. The strategy of visual irritation: forms of ambiguous representation in contemporary art373
- Chapter 29. Interaction of people and machines as a narrative and visual figure in film: a study of389
- Chapter 30. Computational modelling of creativity in abstract art407
- Index425
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
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