Title
Formalising visual languages
Abstract
We propose a formalisation of visual languages which allows a uniform approach to satisfying the needs of pattern recognition, image generation, and visual reasoning faced in visual human-computer communication. Such needs comprise managing the full screen image as seen on the computer display, handling interpretation of icons even when ambiguous, or generating multiple representations to convey one same meaning as required by different users for diverse tasks. We also formalise the way the machine associates a computational meaning with an image (including the whole screen image), and conversely, the way it generates an image on the screen from a computation. A definition of visual sentence as interpreted image is proposed, and the visual language is viewed as a set of visual sentences in a user-computer dialogue. Examples of how the proposed formalism is suitable for ambiguity control and multiple representations of meanings are provided.
Year
DOI
Venue
1995
10.1109/VL.1995.520784
VL
Keywords
Field
DocType
computational meaning,image generation,whole screen image,visual human-computer communication,full screen image,proposed formalism,visual reasoning,multiple representation,visual sentence,visual language,data visualization,computer graphics,pixel,digital images,pattern recognition,graphical user interfaces,face,satisfiability
Data visualization,Visual language,Visual reasoning,Human visual system model,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Sentence,Computer graphics,Ambiguity,Visual rhetoric
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-8186-7045-2
14
1.14
References 
Authors
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
P. Bottoni132340.12
M. F. Costabile238636.14
S. Levialdi3698105.06
P. Mussio435933.67