Understanding Images Finding Meaning in Digital Imagery [Paperback]

1 Editors Introduction.- 1.1 References.- 2 Lipstick on the Bulldog.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 A Few Definitions.- 2.3 Why Collaboration is Hard to Do.- 2.4 Process, Tools, Product.- 2.5 Strategists or Service Bureaus.- 2.6 Education.- 2.7 Common Ground.- 3 Photographic Interpretation.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Questions and Answers.- 4 Cognitive Origins of Graphic Productions.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.1.1 Elemental and Relational Concepts.- 4.1.2 How Depictions are used to Convey Meaning.- 4.2 Pictographs and Symbols.- 4.2.1 General Principles.- 4.2.2 Childrens Early Writing.- 4.2.3 Childrens Early Arithmetic.- 4.2.4 Historical Examples of Arithmetic.- 4.2.5 Historical and Developmental Parallels in Arithmetic Representations.- 4.3 Pictorial Space and Pictorial Devices.- 4.3.1 Childrens Graphic Productions.- 4.3.2 Spatial Pictorial Devices.- 4.4 Conclusions.- 4.4.1 Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny.- 4.4.2 Two Aspects of Meaning and Two Aspects of Representations.- 4.4.3 Cognitive Naturalness.- 4.5 Acknowledgements.- 4.6 References.- 5 Automating Procedures for Generating Chinese Characters.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 The Case for Chinese Characters.- 5.3 Introduction to Chinese Characters.- 5.4 Current Software Capabilities.- 5.5 The Path Based Bezier Curve Approach.- 5.6 References.- 6 Multimedia Representational Aids in Urban Planning Support Systems.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Challenges to Urban Planning Support Systems.- 6.3 Addressing the Challenges: Representational Aids.- 6.4 Input Aids.- 6.5 Output Aids.- 6.6 Application of Representational Aids: Rantoul, Illinois.- 6.7 Conclusions.- 6.8 Acknowledgements.- 6.9 References.- 7 Gesture Translation:Using Conventional Musical Instruments in Unconventional Ways.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 The Need for Something Better.- 7.3 Gesture Translation.- 7.4 The Current System.- 7.5 An Example.- 7.6 Related Work.- 7.7 Limitations and Future Work.- 7.8 Conclusion.- 7.9 References.- 8 Visualization for Personal Information Systems.- 8lD