Processing of visible language 2
Paul A. Kolers (Editor), Merald Ernest Wrolstad (Editor), Herman Bouma (Editor), University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
The second symposium on processing visible language constituted a different "mix" of participants from the first. Greater emphasis was given to the design of language, both in its historical development and in its current display; and to practical questions associated with machine-implementation oflanguage, in the interactions of person and computer, and in the characteristics of the physical and environmental objects that affect the interaction. Another change was that a special session on theory capped the proceedings. Psychologists remained heavily involved, however, both as contributors to and as discussants of the work pre sented. The motivation of the conferences remains one of bringing together graphic designers, engineers, and psychologists concerned with the display and acquisition of visible language. The papers separately tended to emphasize the one of the three disciplines that mark their authors' field of endeavor, but are constructed to be general rather than parochial. Moreover, within the three disciplines, papers emphasized either the textual or the more pictorial aspects. For example, a session on writing systems ranged from principles that seem to characterize all such systems to specific papers on ancient Egyptian writing, modern Korean, and English shorthand. The complementary session on the nontextual media opened with a discussion of general principles of pictorial communication and included papers on communicating instructions, general information, or religious belief through designs and other pictorial forms, as well as a discussion. of misrepresentation
Print Book, English, 1980
Plenum Press, Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division, New York, 1980
NATO conference series, v. 13
Congress
xvii, 616 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780306405761, 0306405768
7099393
Principles of writing systems within the frame of visual communication (Tutorial paper)
English shorthand systems and abbreviatory conventions: A psychological perspective
Remarks on ancient Egyptian writing with emphasis on its mnemonic aspects
The Korean writing system: An alphabet? a syllabary? a logography?
A structure for nontextual communications (Tutorial paper)
The syntax of pictorial instructions
Making newspaper graphs fit to print
Some problems of illustration
Islamic calligraphy: Meaning and symbol
Usability: The criterion for designing written information (Tutorial paper)
Wholistic models of feature analysis in word recognition: A critical examination
Developmental trends in the perception of textual cohesion
Structuring an internal representation of text: A basis of literacy
Graphic aspects of complex texts: Typography as macro-punctuation
Pictures and the real thing (Tutorial paper)
The influence of texture gradients on relief interpretation from isopleth maps
The acquisition and processing of cartographic information: Some preliminary experimentation
Graph reading abilities of thirteen-year-olds
Interpreting directions from graphic displays: Spatial frames of reference
The presentation of text and graphics (Tutorial paper)
Spacing of characters on a television display
Optimal segmentation for sentences displayed on a video screen
Text enhancement and structuring in computer conferencing
Towards an electronic journal
Human performance in computer aided writing and documentation
Human-computer interactive systems: A state-of-the-art review (Tutorial paper)
Simultaneous speech transcription and TV captions for the deaf
Pictorial recognition and teaching the blind to draw
Telidon Videotex and user-related issues
Human factors and VDT design
Theory of representation: Three questions (Tutorial paper)
Textual literacy: An outline sketch of psychological research on reading and writing
Anaphoric relations, comprehension and readability
Communicating with computers
Towards a model for picture and word processing
The basic test of the graph: A matrix theory of graph construction and cartography
Name index
Rev. papers presented at a conference held at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Sept. 3-7, 1979, sponsored by the University of Toronto and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education