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TVCG
2010
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13 years 10 months ago
Mental Models, Visual Reasoning and Interaction in Information Visualization: A Top-down Perspective
—Although previous research has suggested that examining the interplay between internal and external representations can benefit our understanding of the role of information vis...
Zhicheng Liu, John T. Stasko
AIS
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Thinking with external representations
Why do people create extra representations to help them make sense of situations, diagrams, illustrations, instructions and problems? The obvious explanation-external representatio...
David Kirsh
SOCRATES
2008
14 years 29 days ago
Supporting Learners Collaborative Knowledge Construction by External Representations
External representations can be powerful to support learners' collaborative knowledge construction. They can focus learners on aspects which are particularly important for th...
Bernhard Ertl, Birgitta Kopp, Heinz Mandl
CANDC
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Tool support for creativity using externalizations
Within the creativity community, researchers and practitioners have developed and studied various support tools and environments. It is important to learn from these tools and env...
Andrew Warr, Eamonn O'Neill
COSIT
1999
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Pictorial and Verbal Tools for Conveying Routes
Traditionally, depictions and descriptions have been seen as complementary; depictions have been preferred to convey iconic or metaphorically iconic information whereas description...
Barbara Tversky, Paul U. Lee
UM
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Bayesian Approach to Modelling Users' Information Display Preferences
This paper describes the process by which we constructed a user model for ERST - an External Representation Selection Tutor - which recommends external representations (ERs) for pa...
Beate Grawemeyer, Richard Cox
AIED
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Developing a Bayes-net based student model for an External Representation Selection Tutor
Abstract. This paper describes the process by which we are constructing an intelligent tutoring system (ERST) designed to improve learners’ external representation (ER) selection...
Beate Grawemeyer, Richard Cox
ACMDIS
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
External representations in ubiquitous computing design and the implications for design tools
One challenge for ubiquitous computing is providing appropriate tools for professional designers, thus leading to stronger user-valued applications. Unlike many previous tool-buil...
Steven Dow, T. Scott Saponas, Yang Li, James A. La...