[Libri] Oct. 18th talk: VISUAL LANGUAGES FOR COMPUTER-BASED COMMUNICATIONACROSS CULTURES

[Tom Murray]

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Visiting Scholar Presentation and **FREE LUNCH**
Friday October 18th;  Adele Simmons Auditorium -- 12:00


                  VISUAL LANGUAGES FOR
       COMPUTER-BASED COMMUNICATION ACROSS CULTURES

Prof. Steven L. Tanimoto, University of Washington

Abstract

Visual languages for human communication can be classified into pre-computer
and post-computer systems.  Pre-computer systems range from prehistoric
cave paintings through hieroglyphics and pictographic languages such as
Chinese up through Bliss Symbols and international icon systems.
Post-computer visual languages include a variety of interactive systems
including certain programming systems, educational software, and languages
that augment textual communication -- the smiley face ("emoticon")
sublanguage, Microsoft ("Comic") Chat, etc.  Most important, from an
engineering point of view, are the issues the designer faces when
developing a new software/language system.  This presentation will explore
particular approaches to ontology design, icon design, interaction,
implementation, and learnability.

Biography

Prof. Steven Tanimoto has been on the faculty at the University of Washington
since 1977.  He received the A.B. degree from Harvard University with a
concentration in Visual and Environmental Studies and an honors thesis on
the visual perception of figures distorted by computer.  In 1975 he completed
the Ph.D. at Princeton University with a dissertation entitled, "Hierarchical
Approaches to Picture Processing."  He has been involved with research
in visual languages for more than 20 years. Dr. Tanimoto headed the organizing
committee for VL'2000 in Seattle, and has served as chair of the steering
committee for its conference series, the IEEE Symposia on Visual Languages.




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Tom Murray, Senior Research Fellow
Adjunct Associate Professor of Instructional Technology
School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002
Adjunct Faculty, University of Massachusetts
(413) 559-5433 Fax:559-5438
tmurray at hampshire.edu  http://helios.hampshire.edu/~tjmCCS/