ABOUT DIAGRAMS.......
• Diagrams are human artifacts, constantly evolving to support human activity.
• They are “qualitative” in the sense that they have (to date) escaped mathematical formalization.
Why important role in research ?
• They are a rich domain for research:
– Drawing lessons from human perception and reasoning
– As a well-understood class of representational model
– As a source of novel computation techniques• Diagrams as external representations
• Diagrams as internal representations
– mental representations (humans)
–computational representations (machines)
• Range of schematically / representation taxonomy
• Diagrams as language
– elements & configuration versus lexicon & syntax
• Diagrams as qualitative models of the world
• Diagrams are human artifacts, constantly evolving to support human activity.
• They are “qualitative” in the sense that they have (to date) escaped mathematical formalization.
Why important role in research ?
• They are a rich domain for research:
– Drawing lessons from human perception and reasoning
– As a well-understood class of representational model
– As a source of novel computation techniques• Diagrams as external representations
• Diagrams as internal representations
– mental representations (humans)
–computational representations (machines)
• Range of schematically / representation taxonomy
• Diagrams as language
– elements & configuration versus lexicon & syntax
• Diagrams as qualitative models of the world
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