This volume presents a selection of the contributions to the Seventh Workshop on Informatics and Psychology. The theme of the workshop was Visualization in Human-Computer Interaction. Visualization is nowadays recognized as an important aspect of user-oriented human-computer interfaces. Both informatics and psychology are concerned with this topic. In informatics, the technology is being developed which makes visualization and interaction based on visual concepts feasible. Another important trend in informatics is the development of prototypical solutions. Visual programming, visual languages, graphical interfaces, visual representations and many other keywords characterize current efforts in this field. Psychologists are working on the question of how people represent knowledge visually and how they can take advantage of visual representations when solving tasks.
Author(s): Franz J. Brandenburg (auth.), Peter Gorny, Michael J. Tauber (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 439
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1990
Language: English
Pages: 275
Tags: Input/Output and Data Communications; Models and Principles; Software Engineering
Nice drawings of graphs are computationally hard....Pages 1-15
Beyond visualization: Knowing and understanding....Pages 16-26
Generating pictorial presentations for advice-giving dialog systems....Pages 27-36
What does knowledge look like?....Pages 37-46
Representing semantic knowledge with 2-dimensional rules in the domain of functional programming....Pages 47-81
A graphical representation of the prolog programmer's knowledge....Pages 82-104
Fast — A stepper in an object-oriented programming environment....Pages 105-122
Integrating visual aids into an object oriented programming environment....Pages 123-136
A context-oriented approach for decision support....Pages 137-148
Beyond the desk top metaphor: Information retrieval with an icon-based interface....Pages 149-182
Visualization and direct manipulation in user interfaces: Are we overdoing it?....Pages 183-193
Teaching a spreadsheet application — visual-spatial metaphors in relation to spatial ability, and the effect on mental models....Pages 194-208
Some HCI issues concerned with displaying quantitative information graphically....Pages 209-226
Implementing direct manipulation query languages using an adequate data model....Pages 227-240
Modelling the relationship between state and display in interactive systems....Pages 241-249
A software engineering environment for developing human-computer interfaces....Pages 250-263
“Intrinsic geometry in LOGO- distance of linear segments”....Pages 264-272
