The effect of a perceptual syntax on the learnability of novel concepts

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualization

Volumn 8, Issue , 2004, Pages 308-314

  Irani, Pourang ^a   Ware, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Geon theory; Object recognition; Pedagogy; Perception; Semantic learning; Software engineering; Software engineering visualization; UML diagrams

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

GEON THEORY; PEDAGOGY; PERCEPTUAL SYNTAX; SEMANTIC LEARNING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING VISUALIZATION; UML DIAGRAMS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 4644352811     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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