2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Formal semantics of higher-level information of graphical representations that informs the study of diagrams comprehension
| Project/Area Number |
20500244
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Cognitive science
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| Research Institution | Doshisha University |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIMOJIMA Atsushi Doshisha University, 文化情報学部, 教授 (40303341)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 推論 / 問題解決 / 図の読解 / 図的推論 / 形式意味論 |
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| 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.
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