Cognitive Science Approaches To UnderstandingDiagrammatic Representations

Authors:
Peter C.-H. Cheng;Ric K. Lowe;Mike Scaife
Affiliations:
ESRC Centre for Research in Development, Instruction and Training, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK;Faculty of Education, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia, Australia 6001;Interactive Media and Virtual Environment Lab, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Sussex University, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK
Venue:
Artificial Intelligence Review
Year:
2001

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Abstract

Through a wide variety of approaches cognitive sciencehas given us various important insights into thenature of diagrammatic representations. This papersurveys the findings, issues and approaches todiagrammatic representations in cognitive science. Important current issues that are highlighted include:the relation between the parts of the representationalsystem that are internal to the mind and in externalvisual media that presents the diagram; the use ofmultiple representations which is typical of realcontexts of diagram use; the benefits of diagrams interms of (i) computational offloading, (ii)re-representation and (iii) graphical constraining.