Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard Seminar Series Wednesday, May 16, 2007; 4:00pm 60 Oxford Street, Room 330 Barbara Tversky, Department of Psychology, Stanford University Seminar Title: Cognitive Origins of Graphics Abstract Graphics serve many ends: to attract interest, to record and convey information, to offload memory and information processing, to facilitate inference and discovery, to promote collaboration. To do so effectively, they use elements and the spatial relations among them to convey meanings that are spatial or metaphorically spatial. An historical survey and current experiments reveal how space and the things in it are used to convey meanings. A program for revealing and instantiating cognitive principles for designing effective graphics will be described. Upcoming IIC Seminars Continue to stay up to date with our IIC Seminar Schedule. ***Parking is available in the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Please tell the attendant that you are attending the IIC Seminar. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars