by Christine & Thomas Strothotte
SUMMARY: This practical and informative book gives a detailed
analysis of how pictures can be used in computer systems
to convey information to users. A major concern is to
highlight the relationship between pictures and
linguistic representations of information. The authors
define a new classification for pictures that focuses on
the tasks users carry out with the help of images on
computer screens, and present a model for analyzing and
influencing the flow of information via pictures.
CONTENTS:
1. Introduction
2. Pictures in computer systems
3. Classification of pictures
4. Picture processing by humans
5. Information flow during human-computer interaction
6. Abstract-graphical pictures and some applications
7. Analysis of abstract-graphical pictures
8. Users' analysis and criticism of abstract-graphical pictures
9. Viewpoint descriptions
10. The nature of pictograms and their use
11. Pictograms as words
12. Pictograms as pictures
13. Formal representations and informal presentations
14. Image generation
15. Alternative rendering of images
16. Tactile computer graphics
17. Immersive systems
18. Pictures and language
19. Quo vadis?
List of figures, tables, and credits
List of petroglyphs
Bibliography
Subject index
Author index
Hardcover, 256 pages, 0.84 x 9.56 x 6.41 inches
Price: $49.50
Published: November 1997
Publisher: Springer-Verlag TELOS
ISBN: 3-540-59417-5
Webpages about this book:
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