Title :
Derivative meaning in graphical representations
Author :
Shimojima, Atsushi
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Knowledge Sci., Japan Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Japan
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;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0216-4
DOI :
10.1109/VL.1999.795906
