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From: neves@ai.cs.wisc.edu (David M. Neves)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,sci.psychology
Subject: Re: visual presentation of quantitative info?
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Date: 9 Oct 89 17:42:42 GMT
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I am the original poster and I see that I wasn't sufficiently clear
enough so let me restate what I am looking for.

I am interested in the literature on visually representing various
forms of information for ease of learning and better recall.
Such as:

  equations:   miles/gallons for mileage or
               miles/hours   for rate
               (x + y)/.4z   (more complex)
    i.e. How can these equations be represented as pictures?
  hierarchies:  (besides the obvious visual trees)
  procedures:   (besides the obvious flow diagram)

I would guess some of this information would be in math education,
psychology, and human-computer interaction/human factors.  I'd like
some pointers to get me started.



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