Behavioral Model of Visual Perception and Recognition
(Ilya Rybak et al. – A.B. Kogan Research Institute for Neurocybernetics, Russia)
All posts from
July 2000
Big Architect, Little Architect
XML Information Set
A description of the information available in a well-formed XML document (W3C Working Draft)
Image and Meaning
Envisioning and Communicating Science and Technology (Felice Frankel et al. – MIT Cambridge Mass., USA)
Deep Web
“A vast reservoir of Internet content that is 500 times larger than the known WWW” (Bright Planet: The Internet Content Company)
What is Information?
The Flow of Bits and the Control of Chaos (David Sholle of Miami University – Media in Transition)
Web Page Design
Implications of Memory, Structure and Scent for Information Retrieval (Kevin Larson & Mary Czerwinski – Adaptive Systems and Interaction/Microsoft Research)
Structured Information: Navigation, Access and Control
“Structured information is information that is analyzed.” (Steve J. DeRose 1995)
Bright Ideas
“The modern history of statistical graphics has been driven by many important ideas. (…) how to improve graphical communication.” (Michael Friendly – Gallery of Data Visualisation)
Cartographic Communication
“Maps are perhaps as fundamental to society as language and the written word.” (Kenneth E. Foote& Shannon Crum – The Geographer’s Craft Project)
‘Seven Issues’ Revisited
“(…) the slides from this landmark talk on the web.” (HT’91 Keynote – Frank Halasz / RealVideoStream)
Perceptual and Fluid
“(…) extracting visual structure in document images…” & “(…) a new technique for annotation.” (Systems and Practice Lab – XEROX PARC)
Technical Writing and the Macintosh
“Technical writing is one of those activities that historians of technology have almost completely ignored.” (Making the Macintosh – Alex Pang/Stanford University Library)
VisCog.net
“(…) links to researchers and resources in the field of visual cognition.” (Maintained by Daniel Simons)
What Does It All Mean?
“Making sense of the terms ‘architecture’ and ‘design'” (Nick Kraly – Design Shops)
Archimedes Palimpsest
“(…) how Archimedes used inaccurate diagrams accurately” (Physics Today on the Web – courtesy of Pat Hayes)
Explanation Architecture Group
“(…) technological and conceptual architectures around imagery that allow people to construct and communicate their understandings in new ways.” (MIT Media Laboratory)
Design by Numbers
“(…) for visual designers and artists as an introduction to computational design.” (Developed by John Maeda of the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory)
Navigation Design
“(…) how to improve the architecture of Web Information Systems using design patterns” (Gustavo Rossi et al. in WWW8 Conference Refereed Papers)
Information Visualization
“(…) the application of VR to abstract worlds like Information Visualization” (Maintained by Jerry Isdale)