Edited by
D.E. Mahling, Department of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
F. Arefi, School of Computer Science-ECS 352, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Martin G. Tauber, Universität Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany
Description
This volume contains selected papers from the 10th Interdisciplinary Workshop in Informatics and Psychology which had as its theme Cognitive
Aspects in Visual Languages and Interfaces. Visual languages in general, visual programming languages in particular, and graphical or
visual user interfaces are increasingly regarded as important improvements for the interaction between people and artifacts. Visual and
graphical user interfaces have already a history of a number of years in terms of research and development. The focus on visual languages
and visual programming languages, however, is more recent. The development of graphical user interfaces was accompanied and reinforced
by psychological research but visual languages are still mainly “inventions” of designers and not designed on the basis of principles
derived also from knowledge of psychology or other behavioral sciences.
The presentations and discussions at the workshop showed increasing
interest in paradigms of visual languages and their psychological foundation. Visual languages and interfaces must be seen as means to
support and enhance represention, application and processing knowledge visually. The study of the cognitive aspects in visual languages
and interfaces is thus an important part of Human-Computer Interaction as a discipline
concerned with the design, evaluation and
implementation of interactive computer systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them (definition
of HCI in the ACM SIGCHI Curricula for Human-Computer Interaction). This book will stimulate future research in the area of Human-Computer
Interaction and Visual Languages.
Included in series
Human Factors in Information Technology
