INT 200B: Cognitive
Science
Winter 2003, Friday 3:30 – 5:00, Ellison 2620
Enroll Code#: 24521
Instructors: Mary
Hegarty (Psychology) & Sara
Fabrikant (Geography)
V
i s u a l i z a t i o n s
as Internal Representations and as Augmentations of Cognition
The theme this quarter is visualization. We will examine both
basic cognitive science research on the nature of visual imagery or
internal visualizations and more applied research on the design
of external visualizations (graphs, diagrams, animations, geographical
information systems, etc.). The class meetings will include both invited
talks and in-class discussions of readings. Students will be required
to post discussion questions on the talks and readings on the web-based
class
discussion forum, and to lead discussions on the readings.
All members of the cognitive science community on campus are invited
to attend any of the class meetings (whether or not you are registered
for the class).
Class
Discussion Forum
| Date |
|
Topics | Format/Readings |
|---|---|---|---|
| week
1 |
Fri.
Jan. 9 |
Mary
Hegarty,
Department of Psychology UCSB "Internal and External Visualizations" |
Talk |
| week
2 |
Fri.
Jan. 17 |
Steffen
Werner, Psychology, University of Idaho "Architecture and Reference Systems” |
Talk/Discussion: Cognition meets LeCorbusier -- Cognitive principles of architectural design |
| week
3 |
Fri.
Jan. 24 |
Kosslyn, S. M. (1994). Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate. | Discussion: Chapter 1. Resolving the Imagery Debates. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. |
| week
4 |
Fri.
Jan. 31 |
Pylyshyn, Z. (in press) Mental Imagery: In search of a theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. | Discussion Having difficulty with this link? Try here (HTML) or here (PDF) |
| week
5 |
Fri.
Feb. 7 |
A. MacEachren, F. Boscoe, D. Huang, and L. Pickle (1998). Geographic visualization: Designing manipulable maps for exploring temporally varying georeferenced statistics. Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, 156: 87- 94. | Discussion |
| week
6 |
Fri.
Feb. 14 |
Slocum, T.A., Blok, C. Jiang, B. Koussoualou, A., Montello, D.R., Fuhrman, S & Hedley, N. R. Cognitive and Usability Issues in Geovisualization. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 28(1): 61-75. | Discussion |
| week
7 |
Fri.
Feb. 21 |
Barbara
Tversky, Psychology, Stanford University “Animation: Can it facilitate?” |
Talk / Discussion (click on "Science direct now") International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 57(4): 247-262 . |
| week
8 |
Fri.
Feb. 28 |
Sara
Fabrikant, Geography, UCSB |
Talk/Discussion |
week
9 |
Fri.
Mar. 7 |
Tobias
Hoellerer, Computer Science, UCSB |
Talk/Discussion |
week
10 |
Fri.
Mar.14 |
Course review / wrap up | General Discussion |
internal/external visualization classics
Bertin, J. 1999. Sémiologie Graphique: Les Diagrammes – les Réseaux – les Cartes. Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences, Paris, France.
Bertin,
J. 1983. Semiology of Graphics. University of Wisconsin Press,
Madison, WI.
Bertin, J. 1977. La Graphique et le Traitement Graphique de l'Information.
Flammarion, Paris, France.
Bertin, Jacques 1981. Graphics and Graphic Information Processing. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany.
Card, S. K., Mackinlay, J. D., and Shneiderman, B. (eds.). 1999. Readings in Information Visualization. Using Vision to Think. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA.
Ferguson, E. S. (1977). The mind's eye. Non-verbal thought in technology. Science, 197, 827-836.
Finke, R. A. (1989). Principles
of Mental Imagery. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Kosslyn, S. M. (1980). Image and Mind. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press.
Kosslyn, S. M. (1994). Image and Brain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Larkin, J. H., & Simon, H. A. (1987). Why a diagram is (sometimes)
worth 10,000 words. Cognitive Science, 11, 65-99.
MacEachren, A., 1994.
Some Truth with Maps. Assoc. of American Geographers, Washington
DC.
MacEachren, A. M., 1995. How Maps Work. Representation, Visualization, and Design. New Guilford Press, York, NY.
Shepard, R. N. & Metzler, J. (1971), Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects. Science, 171, 701-703.
Slocum, T., 1999. Thematic Cartography and Visualization. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River NJ. (website)
Tufte, E. 1990. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press, Chesire, CT.
Tufte, E. 1992. Envisioning Information, Graphics Press, Chesire, CT.
Tufte, E.
1997. Visual
Explanations : Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative,
Graphics Press, Chesire,
CT.
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