?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Applying+semantic+concepts+to+the+media+assigment+problem+in+multi-media+communication.&rft.creator=Stenning%2C+Keith&rft.creator=Inder%2C+Robert&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Language&rft.subject=Semantics&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.subject=Logic&rft.description=Our+long+term+goal+is+an+understanding+of+human+communication+in+terms+which+would+provide+the+basis+for+rational+design.+The+kernel+would+be+a+theory+of+the+cognitive+consequences+of+allocating+the+same+information+to+different+media+and+modalities%2C+based+on+the+user's+information+processing+characterised+in+computational+terms.+Our+theory+of+the+cognitive+consequences+of+media%2Fmodality+allocation+starts+from+an+analysis+of+differences+in+logical+expressiveness+of+graphical+and+linguistic+representations+(Stenning+%5C%26+Oberlander+(1994%2C+1995)).+This+semantic+approach+requires+conceptualisations+of+%7B%5Cit+medium%7D+and+%7B%5Cit+modality%7D+that+can+be+related+to+representation+systems.+We+propose+that+media+are+the+physical%2Fperceptual+aspects+of+representations%3B+modalities+are+classes+of+interpretation+function+which+map+media+onto+meanings.+These+interpretations+of+the+terms+contrast+with+existing+HCI+usage.+The+curtailments+of+abstraction+observed+in+graphics+arise+from+interactions+between+medium+and+modality.+Graphical+modalities+are+distinguished+from+sentential+languages+by+the+nature+of+their+interpretation+functions.+A+hierarchy+of+expressiveness+of+interpretations+of+graphics+is+defined%2C+and+compared+with+interpretations+of+sentential+languages.+Using+the+expressiveness+of+representations+to+predict+their+cognitive+properties+also+requires+reference+to+the+availability+of+constraints+of+their+interpretation+to+users.+Further+contrasts+between+graphics+and+language+emerge+in+the+availability+of+their+constraints.+Three+example+domains+of+graphical+representations+are+analysed+from+this+perspective---matrix+graphics%3B+logic+diagrams%3B+and+semantic+networks.+Some+empirical+evidence+of+the+usability+of+these+notations+is+reviewed+as+evidence+that+the+proposed+conceptualisation+offers+powerful+generalisations.&rft.publisher=MIT+Press%2C+Cambridge%2C+Mass.&rft.contributor=Chandrasekaran%2C+B.&rft.contributor=Glasgow%2C+Janice&rft.date=1995&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F822%2F2%2Finder.ps&rft.identifier=++Stenning%2C+Keith+and+Inder%2C+Robert++(1995)+Applying+semantic+concepts+to+the+media+assigment+problem+in+multi-media+communication.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F822%2F