Presence and Absence of Individuals in Diagrammatic Logics: An Empirical Comparison
Presence and Absence of Individuals in Diagrammatic Logics: An Empirical Comparison
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图解逻辑中个体的存在和不存在:实证比较
DOI:
10.1007/s11225-017-9711-6
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2017
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0.7
通讯作者:
Stapleton G
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Stapleton G
The development of diagrammatic logics is strongly motivated by the desire to make formal reasoning accessible to broad audiences. One major research problem, for which surprisingly little progress has been made, is to understand how to choose between semantically equivalent diagrams from the perspective of human cognition. The particular focus of this paper is on choosing between diagrams that represent either thepresenceorabsenceof individuals. To understand how to best make this choice, we conducted an empirical study. We found that representing the presence of individuals supported task performance either significantly better than, or no worse than, representing the absence of individuals. The particularly striking feature of our results was that representing the absence of individuals in a way that makes the diagram highly cluttered is detrimental to human cognition. As a result, diagrams with this feature should be avoided, but diagrams using presence (irrespective of diagram clutter) or low-cluttered absence can be used to support cognition in the context of the tasks performed in our study.
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影响因子:
4.3
作者:
Jim Burton;M. K. Chakraborty;Lopamudra Choudhury;Gem Stapleton
通讯作者:
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影响因子:
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作者:
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通讯作者:
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DOI:
10.1007/11783183_36
发表时间:
2006
期刊:
J. Vis. Lang. Comput.
影响因子:
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作者:
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通讯作者:
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影响因子:
5.2
作者:
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通讯作者:
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DOI:
10.1007/978-3-540-73681-3_32
发表时间:
2007
期刊:
2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'05)
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作者:
F. Dau
通讯作者:
F. Dau