**** Early Registration for Diagrams 2006 Closes May 14 ****
Call for Participation
Diagrams 2006
Fourth International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams
Diagrams and Education
http://diagrams-conference.org
June 28-30, 2006
Stanford University, USA
Conference registration for the Diagrams 2006 conference is
now available at the conference web site. Go to
http://diagrams-conference.org/registration
for all registration information. This page includes details about
accommodation and costs. The registration procedure with credit card
payment is available on line.
Note two important dates with regard to conference registration:
April 15, 2006: Deadline to apply for student travel funding assistance
May 14, 2006: Deadline for early registration
The conference program is available at
http://diagrams-conference.org/program
About the conference
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Diagrams is an international and interdisciplinary conference series
on the theory and application of diagrams in any scientific field of
enquiry. From early human history, diagrams have been pervasive in
human communication. The recent rise of multimedia technology that
has turned advanced visual communication into an integral part of our
everyday reality makes a better understanding of the role of diagrams
and sketches in communication, cognition, creative thought, and
problem-solving a necessity. These developments have triggered a new
surge of interest in the study of diagrammatic notations, which is
driven by several different scientific disciplines concerned with
cognition, computation and communication.
Diagrams 2006 is the fourth event in this conference series, which
was launched in Edinburgh in September 2000, and has since emerged as
the major international conference on this topic. The series attracts
a large number of researchers from virtually all academic fields that
are studying the nature of diagrammatic representations, their use in
human communication, and cognitive or computational mechanisms for
processing diagrams.
Diagrams is the only conference that provides a unified forum for all
areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams: architecture,
artificial intelligence, cartography, cognitive science, computer
science, education, graphic design, history of science,
human-computer interaction, linguistics, philosophy and logic, and
psychology, to name but a few.
Diagrams and Education is a special theme of Diagrams 2006 which
includes the uses of diagrams in all subject areas and phases of
education from primary schools to professional development, and the
topic of education for diagrammatic literacy.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* diagram understanding by humans or machines
* reasoning with diagrammatic representations
* educational uses of diagrams
* education for diagrammatic literacy
* diagram usage in scientific discovery
* history of diagrammatic languages and notations
* formalization of diagrammatic notations
* novel uses of diagrammatic notations
* design of diagrammatic notations
* interactive graphical communication
* psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension,
and production of diagrams
* computational models of reasoning with and interpretation of diagrams
* role of diagrams in applied areas such as visualization
* spatial information and diagrams
* usability issues concerning diagrams
* design with diagrams
Diagrams 2006 will consist of technical sessions with invited
addresses, presentations of refereed papers, posters and tutorial
sessions. The tutorials will provide introductions to diagram
research in
various disciplines in order to foster a lively interdisciplinary exchange.
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