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From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
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Subject: Re: Images vs. Text
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Date: 3 Apr 91 15:27:08 GMT
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In article <1991Apr3.031013.27762@watserv1.waterloo.edu> ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Sneaky Sanj ;-) writes:
>In article <10292@pitt.UUCP> grefen@sun14.cs.pitt.edu (Gregory Grefenstette) writes:
>>
>>I'm doing work on hypertext visual interfaces and I
>>would like to be able to prove what seems evident to me,
>>that is,  that people can scan information presented
>>in a visual image-based form FASTER than in a plain
>>textual form.
>
>Yes, this makes sense. I can process an image IN PARALLEL. I can see a 
>picture of a horse and immediately I know it is a horse.

Yes, and that's very nice. But what does the picture _mean_? "Rent your
horse here"? "Horse crossing"? "Don't forget to feed the horse"? "The horse
is a large quadruped ruminant mammal"? "Horses were not indigenous to North
America, but were imported by the Conquistadores"?













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