Visual Languages

Author : Connie Malamed
Publisher : Rockport Pub
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781592537419

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Visual Language for Designers by Connie Malamed Pdf

Within every picture is a hidden language that conveys a message, whether it is intended or not. This language is based on the ways people perceive and process visual information. By understanding visual language as the interface between a graphic and a viewer, designers and illustrators can learn to inform with accuracy and power. In a time of unprecedented competition for audience attention and with an increasing demand for complex graphics, Visual Language for Designers explains how to achieve quick and effective communications. New in paperback, this book presents ways to design for the strengths of our innate mental capacities and to compensate for our cognitive limitations. Visual Language for Designers includes: —How to organize graphics for quick perception —How to direct the eyes to essential information —How to use visual shorthand for efficient communication —How to make abstract ideas concrete —How to best express visual complexity —How to charge a graphic with energy and emotion

Author : Fernando Ferri
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781599045368

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Visual Languages for Interactive Computing by Fernando Ferri Pdf

Presents problems and methodologies related to the syntax, semantics, and ambiguities of visual languages. Defines and formalizes visual languages for interactive computing, as well as visual notation interpretation.

Author : Kang Zhang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780387682570

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Visual Languages and Applications by Kang Zhang Pdf

Visual languages have long been a pursuit of effective communication between human and machine. With rapid advances of the Internet and Web technology, human-human communication through the Web or electronic mobile devices is becoming more and more prevalent. Visual Languages and Applications is a comprehensive introduction to diagrammatical visual languages. This book discusses what visual programming languages are, and how such languages and their underlying foundations can be usefully applied to other fields in computer science. It also covers a broad range of contents from the underlying theory of graph grammars to the applications in various domains. Pointers to related topics and further readings are provided as well. Visual Languages and Applications is designed as a secondary text book for upper-undergraduate-level students and graduate-level students in computer science and engineering. This volume is also suitable for practitioners and researchers in industry as a professional book.

Author : Shi-Kuo Chang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461318057

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Visual Languages by Shi-Kuo Chang Pdf

This book is intended as both an introduction to the state-of-the-art in visual languages, as well as an exposition of the frontiers of research in advanced visual languages. It is for computer scientists, computer engi neers, information scientists, application programmers, and technical managers responsible for software development projects who are inter ested in the methodology and manifold applications of visual languages and visual programming. The contents of this book are drawn from invited papers, as well as selected papers from two workshops: the 1985 IEEE Workshop on Lan guages for Automation-Cognitive Aspects in Information Processing, which was held in Mallorca, Spain, June 28-30, 1985; and the 1984 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages, which was held in Hiroshima, Japan, December 7-9, 1984. Panos Ligomenides and I organized the technical program of LFA '85, and Tadao Ichikawa and I organized the techni cal program of VL '84. Both workshops have now become successful annual events in their own right. The intersecting area of visual languages and visual programming especially has become a fascinating new research area. It is hoped that this book will focus the reader's attention on some of the interesting research issues as well as the potential for future applications. After reading this book, the reader will undoubtedly get an impression that visual languages and the concept of generalized icons can be studied fruitfully from many different perspectives, including computer graphics, formal language theory, educational methodology, cognitive psychology and visual design.

Author : Tadeo Ichikawa,Erland Jungert,Robert R. Korfhage
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461305699

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Visual Languages and Applications by Tadeo Ichikawa,Erland Jungert,Robert R. Korfhage Pdf

The interface between the user of a computer-based information system and the system itself has been evolving at a rapid rate. The use of a video screen, with its color and graphics capabilities, has been one factor in this evolution. The development of light pens, mice, and other screen image manipulation devices has been another. With these capabilities has come a natural desire to find more effective ways to make use of them. In particular, much work has gone into the development of interface systems that add visual elements such as icons and graphics to text. The desire to use these visual elements effectively in communication between the user and the system has resulted in a healthy competition of ideas and discussion of the principles governing the development and use of such elements. The present volume chronicles some of the more significant ideas that have recently been presented. The first volume in this series on the subject [Visual Languages (Chang, Ichikawa, and Ligomenides, eds. ), Plenum, 1986] covered work done in the early days of the field of visual languages. Here we represent ideas that have grown out of that early work, arranged in six sections: Theory, Design Systems, Visual Programming, Algorithm Animation, Simulation Animation, and Applications. I THEORY Fundamental to the concept of visual languages is the convIctIOn that diagrams and other visual representations can aid understanding and communication of ideas. We begin this volume with a chapter by Fanya S.

Author : Robert E. Horn
Publisher : Macrovu Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Kommunikation
ISBN : 189263709X

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Visual Language by Robert E. Horn Pdf

Author : Botturi, Luca,Stubbs, Todd
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781599047317

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Handbook of Visual Languages for Instructional Design: Theories and Practices by Botturi, Luca,Stubbs, Todd Pdf

Presents languages and notation systems of ID and the integration of these technologies in education.

Author : Kim Marriott,Bernd Meyer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461216766

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Visual Language Theory by Kim Marriott,Bernd Meyer Pdf

A broad-ranging survey of our current understanding of visual languages and their theoretical foundations. Its main focus is the definition, specification, and structural analysis of visual languages by grammars, logic, and algebraic methods and the use of these techniques in visual language implementation. Researchers in formal language theory, HCI, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics will all find this an invaluable guide to the current state of research in the field.

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474282000

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The Semiotics of Emoji by Marcel Danesi Pdf

Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2017 Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise and rise of these winky faces, clinking glasses and smiling poos? Given the sheer variety of verbal communication on the internet and English's still-controversial role as lingua mundi for the web, these icons have emerged as a compensatory universal language. The Semiotics of Emoji looks at what is officially the world's fastest-growing form of communication. Emoji, the colourful symbols and glyphs that represent everything from frowning disapproval to red-faced shame, are fast becoming embedded into digital communication. Controlled by a centralized body and regulated across the web, emoji seems to be a language: but is it? The rapid adoption of emoji in such a short span of time makes it a rich study in exploring the functions of language. Professor Marcel Danesi, an internationally-known expert in semiotics, branding and communication, answers the pertinent questions. Are emoji making us dumber? Can they ultimately replace language? Will people grow up emoji literate as well as digitally native? Can there be such a thing as a Universal Visual Language? Read this book for the answers.

Author : Neil Cohn
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441174512

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The Visual Language of Comics by Neil Cohn Pdf

Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics. Despite this fundamental part of human identity, little work has explored the comprehension and cognitive underpinnings of visual narratives-until now. This work presents a provocative theory: that drawings and sequential images are structured the same as language. Building on contemporary theories from linguistics and cognitive psychology, it argues that comics are written in a visual language of sequential images that combines with text. Like spoken and signed languages, visual narratives use a lexicon of systematic patterns stored in memory, strategies for combining these patterns into meaningful units, and a hierarchic grammar governing the combination of sequential images into coherent expressions. Filled with examples and illustrations, this book details each of these levels of structure, explains how cross-cultural differences arise in diverse visual languages of the world, and describes what the newest neuroscience research reveals about the brain's comprehension of visual narratives. From this emerges the foundation for a new line of research within the linguistic and cognitive sciences, raising intriguing questions about the connections between language and the diversity of humans' expressive behaviours in the mind and brain.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Image processing
ISBN : UCAL:B4295643

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1987 Workshop on Visual Languages by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jörg von Engelhardt
Publisher : Yuri Engelhardt
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Communication in art
ISBN : 9789057760891

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The Language of Graphics by Jörg von Engelhardt Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Computer graphics
ISBN : UCSC:32106009869501

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1989 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages by Anonim Pdf

Author : Workshop on Visual Languages (1990, Skokie, Ill.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic data processing
ISBN : 0818620900

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Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Workshop on Visual Languages by Workshop on Visual Languages (1990, Skokie, Ill.) Pdf

The workshop was held in Skokie, Illinois, October 1990. Both theoretical and design/implementation issues are explored in papers on visual languages, visual programming, visual human-machine interface design, visual communication, pictorial databases, pictorial information systems, and cognitive aspects of human-machine systems. No subject index. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Dictionaries, Polyglot
ISBN : UCSC:32106016630219

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5 Language Visual Dictionary by Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc Pdf

A vocabulary guide that presents color photos of everyday objects and tasks with labels in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, grouping words and phrases in fifteen categories, including health, food, and leisure.