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Formality in Sketches and Visual Representation
Alan Blackwell, University of Cambridge
Luke Church, University of Cambridge
Beryl Plimmer, Auckland University
Dave Gray, XPLANE
Kinds of Formality
• i) Formal Intention
• ii) Formal Connotation
• iii) Formal Description
• iv) Formal Interpretation
i) Formal Intention
• a clear formulation of objectives
ii) Formal Connotation
• professional or conservative appearance
iii) Formal Description
• representation elements are clearly differentiated – from other classes of element– from other parts of the representation (bounded and separate) – from alternatives that might have been chosen but are not
• “elements” not just visual symbols, but relations:– arrangement in the plane– topological relations– grouped graphical attributes
iv) Formal Interpretation
• Rules: things a reader should do differently in response to differences in the representation
• the “reader” may be a machine
• human readers may interpret using different rules …
• including rules the creator didn’t intend
Sketches and Computation
• visual representations that are created or captured by computers tend toward formality.
• computers follow interpretative rules
• business and scientific visual styles have formal connotations
• user interfaces need predictable correspondences
Problems
• Are some kinds of human endeavour not supported by computer processing of visual representations, because inappropriately formalised?
• Above kinds of formalisation are conflated …
• … so freedom of intention is restricted:– as a result of representational choices – as a result of technical implementations– as a result of unnecessary connotations
Some Productive Research Approaches
• Studies of designers
• Studies of pencil use – (or other traditional drawing tools)
• Studies of ‘finishedness’ in graphic communication
• Studies of ‘ideation’
• Philosophy of art
• Sociology of knowledge
Case Studies
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Discussion?