DocumentCode
3200247
Title
Derivative meaning in graphical representations
Author
Shimojima, Atsushi
Author_Institution
Sch. of Knowledge Sci., Japan Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Japan
fYear
1999
fDate
1999
Firstpage
212
Lastpage
219
Abstract
The paper reports on the phenomenon that may be called “derivative meaning”, where the basic semantic conventions for certain graphical representation systems give rise to additional informational relations between features of representations and features of the represented. We discuss several examples of graphical systems, such as the systems of scatter plots, data maps, and tabular representations, whose informational potentials heavily depend on this phenomenon. We then give an analysis of the way a new meaning relation is derived from basic semantic conventions, and specify the exact conditions for a representation system to support this phenomenon
Keywords
computer graphics; diagrams; graph theory; programming language semantics; visual programming; basic semantic conventions; data maps; derivative meaning; exact conditions; graphical representations; informational potentials; informational relations; scatter plots; tabular representations; Clouds; Displays; Scattering; Shape;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Visual Languages, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location
Tokyo
ISSN
1049-2615
Print_ISBN
0-7695-0216-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/VL.1999.795906
Filename
795906
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