Why diagrams are (sometimes) six times easier than words: Benefits beyond locational indexing

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2980, Issue , 2004, Pages 242-254

  Cheng, Peter C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS; GRAPHIC METHODS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); LOCATION;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; LOCATIONAL INDEXING; PATH RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING STRATEGIES; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DIAGRAMMATIC REPRESENTATIONS; PROBLEM COMPLEXITY; PULLEY SYSTEMS; SOLUTION PATH; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS; TABULAR REPRESENTATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 9444264715     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-25931-2_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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