Seeing Between the Pixels Pictures in Interactive Systems

Seeing Between the Pixels Pictures in Interactive Systems / by Christine Strothotte, Thomas Strothotte.

Pictures are at the heart of how we communicate with computers, emblematic of our cur­ rent fascination with multimedia and web-based computing. Nevertheless, most of us know far less about pictures and the way in which they work than we know about the text that often accompanies them. In an attempt...

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Main Authors: Strothotte, Christine (Author), Strothotte, Thomas (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
Edition:1st ed. 1997.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Optical data processing.
Computers.
Artificial intelligence.
Computer graphics.
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Table of Contents:
  • PartI: Preliminaries
  • 1 Introduction
  • II: Fundamentals
  • 2 Pictures in Computer Systems
  • 3 Classification of Pictures
  • 4 Picture Processing by Humans
  • 5 Information Flow During Human-Computer Interaction
  • III: Abstract-Graphical Pictures
  • 6 Abstract-Graphical Pictures and Some Applications
  • 7 Analysis of Abstract-Graphical Pictures
  • 8 Users’Analysis and Criticism of Abstract-Graphical Pictures
  • 9 Viewpoint Descriptions
  • IV: Pictograms
  • 10 The Nature of Pictograms and Their Use
  • 11 Pictograms as Words
  • 12 Pictograms as Pictures
  • 13 Formal Representations and Informal Presentations
  • PartV: Presentational Pictures
  • 14 Image Generation
  • 15 Alternative Rendering of Images
  • 16 Tactile Computer Graphics
  • 17 Immersive Systems
  • VI: Epilogue
  • 18 Pictures and Language
  • 19 Quovadis?
  • List of Figures, Tables, and Credits
  • List of Petroglyphs
  • Author Index.

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