Formal semantics of higher-level information of graphical representations that informs the study of diagrams comprehension

• Project/Area Number: 20500244
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cognitive science
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: SHIMOJIMA Atsushi Doshisha University, 文化情報学部, 教授 (40303341)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2010
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2010)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
• Keywords: 推論 / 問題解決 / 図の読解 / 図的推論 / 形式意味論

Research Abstract

It is known that diagrams simultaneously express information with different specificity and abstractness. We examined eye movements of people who read diagrams in order to determine whether high-abstraction information (called "higher-level information") was actually used in diagram comprehension. We found that it was actually used, and obtained the hypothesis that there is a specific way people control their attention to diagram elements and making such a control easier is a main function of diagrammatic representations as opposed to text-baed information.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 情報の実在性と可塑性の問題 (2009)
  • Author(s): 下嶋篤
  • Journal Title: 文化学年報 58 Pages: 1-25
  • NAID: 40016589475
• [Journal Article] Sketching Formal Semantics of Graphical Meaning Derivation. (2008)
  • Author(s): Atsushi Shimojima
  • Journal Title: 哲学論叢 35巻 Pages: 1-21
  • NAID: 120001863207
• [Journal Article] 視覚的表象と言語の直列的統合について (2008)
  • Author(s): 馬田一郎
  • Journal Title: 認知科学 15 Pages: 573-587
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Sketching Formal Semantics of Graphical Meaning Derivation (2008)
  • Author(s): Atsushi Shimojima
  • Journal Title: 哲学論叢 35 Pages: 1-21
  • NAID: 120001863207
• [Presentation] An Eye-Tracking Study of Integrative Spatial Cognition over Diagrammatic Representations. (2010)
  • Author(s): Atsushi Shimojima, Yasuhiro Katagiri
  • Organizer: Spatial Cognition VII.
  • Place of Presentation: Mt. Hood, U.S.A.
  • Year and Date: 2010-08-19
• [Presentation] An Eye-Tracking Study of Integrative Spatial Cognition over Diagrammatic Representations (2010)
  • Author(s): 下嶋篤
  • Organizer: Spatial Cognition VII
  • Place of Presentation: The Resort at the Mountain, Welches, Oregon, USA
  • Year and Date: 2010-08-19
• [Presentation] Attending to and maintaining hierarchical objects in graphics comprehension. (2010)
  • Author(s): Atsushi Shimojima, Yasuhiro Katagiri
  • Organizer: Sixth International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams
  • Place of Presentation: Portland, U.S.A.
  • Year and Date: 2010-08-10
• [Presentation] An Eye-Tracking Study of Exploitations of Spatial Constraints in Diagrammatic Reasoning. (2008)
  • Author(s): Atsushi Shimojima, Yasuhiro Katagiri
  • Organizer: Fifth International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams
  • Place of Presentation: Herrsching, Germany.
  • Year and Date: 2008-09-19
• [Presentation] An Eye-Tracking Study of Exploitations of Spatial Constraints in Diagrammatic Reasoning (2008)
  • Author(s): Atsushi Shimojima
  • Organizer: Fifth International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams
  • Place of Presentation: Herrsching, Germany
  • Year and Date: 2008-09-19
• [Presentation] Hypothetical Drawing in Embodied Spatial Reasoning. (2008)
  • Author(s): Atsushi Shimojima, Yasuhiro Katagiri
  • Organizer: Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
  • Place of Presentation: Washington, D. C., U.S.A.
  • Year and Date: 2008-07-25
• [Book] ことばの対照 (2010)
  • Author(s): 下嶋篤
  • Total Pages: 361
  • Publisher: くろしお出版
• [Book] 現代哲学の真理論 : ポスト形而上学時代の真理問題 (2009)
  • Author(s): 下嶋篤
  • Publisher: 世界思想社
• [Remarks]
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