CSE 590D, Autumn 2003

Thinking with Diagrams: Readings and Schedule

Week 1: (October 1) Organizational meeting

Week 2: (October 8; Masa and Daryl)

Why a Diagram is (Sometimes) Worth Ten Thousand Words. Jill H. Larkin and Herbert Simon

Can a picture ruin a thousand words? Physical aspects of the way exam questions are laid out and the impact of changing them. Victoria Crisp and Ezekiel Sweiry

Bill will bring in the following book for people to look at... Kemp, M. (2000). Visualizations: The Nature book of art and science. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Week 3: (October 15; Adam and Lincoln)

GeoRep: A Flexible Tool for Spatial Representation of Line Drawings. Ronald W. Ferguson and Kenneth D. Forbus

Understanding Illustrations of Physical Laws by Integrating Differences in Visual and Textual Representations. Ronald W. Ferguson and Kenneth D. Forbus

Week 4: (October 22; Nick and Steve)

Visual Reasoning With Graphs. Yusuf Pisan

A Visual Routines Based Model of Graph Understanding. Yusuf Pisan

Week 5: (October 29; Masa and ?)

Towards a computational model of sketching. Forbus, Ferguson, and Usher

Qualitative spatial reasoning about sketch maps. Forbus, Usher, and Chapman.

How qualitative spatial reasoning can improve strategy game AIs. Forbus, Mahoney, and Dill

Week 6: (November 5; Amlan and Nick)

Drawing marks, acts, and reacts: Toward a computational sketching interface for architectural design: Ellen Yi-Luen Do

Nick’s project.

Week 7: (November 12; to be announced)

Metaphor in Diagrams. Alan Frank Blackwell

Scroll down the page. This is a thesis; so skim, but read chapters 5,6 and 7

Also review slides:

http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/MONET%20Summer%20School%202000/

Week 8: (November 19; Adam? and ?)

Kosslyn, Stephen M. Understanding charts and graphs. Applied Cognitive Psychology. Vol 3(3) Jul-Sep 1989, 185-225. (Also available in 1-up format)

Scaife, M., & Rogers, Y. (1996).External cognition: How do graphical representations work? International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 45, 185-213.

Week 9: (November 26; Katie and Bill)

Winn, W.D., Li, T-Z., & Schill, D.E. (1991). Diagrams as aids to problem solving: Their role in facilitating search and computation. Educational Technology Research and Development, 39, 17-29.Winn, Lee, and Schill: Diagrams as aids to problem solving.

Week 10: (December 3; to be announced)

Week 11: (December 10; to be announced)