Theory
definitions
- iconic system: structured set of related icons
- iconic sentence (visual sentence): spatial arrangement of icons from iconic system
- visual language: set of iconic sentences constructed with given syntax and semantics
- syntactic analysis of visual languages (spatial parsing): analysis of an iconic sentence to determine the underlying structure
- semantic analysis of visual languages (spatial interpretation): analysis of an iconic sentence to determine the underlying meaning
kinds of icons
- process icons: express computations (primitives)
- elementary object icons: identify primitive objects (primitives)
- composite object icons: identify composite object (constructed from elementary object icons using construction operators)