Call for Papers

Diagrams 2006: Fourth International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams

Diagrams and Education

June 28-30, 2006
Stanford University, USA

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Diagrams is an international and interdisciplinary conference series on the theory and application of diagrams from any field of enquiry.

From early history, diagrams have been pervasive in human communication. Recent advances in multimedia technology have introduced increasingly sophisticated visual representations into everyday life. The study of diagrammatic communication as a whole must be pursued as an interdisciplinary endeavor. Research in the field of diagrams aims to improve our understanding of the role of diagrams and sketches in communication, cognition, creative thought, and problem-solving. These concerns have triggered a surge of interest in the study of diagrammatic notations, especially in academic disciplines dealing 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.

We especially solicit papers in the area of Diagrams and Education. We anticipate invited speakers and at least one session devoted to this important area of diagram use. We construe the topic broadly to include: 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.

Diagrams 2006 will consist of technical sessions with 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.

Diagrams 2006 will inaugurate a new feature: the collection of a corpus of diagrams from researchers in the field. This corpus will contain diagrams of interest which are annotated in terms of their communicative content, aesthetic or design features, features of the underlying representational system, subject domain of origin, etc. It is anticipated that the corpus will be web-based and that researchers will be able to interactively contribute annotated examples in order to develop the collection as a community resource. The corpus will be exhibited at Diagrams 2006 and we expect that it will also be published by CSLI Press.

We invite submissions of

that focus primarily on diagrams or diagram use by human or computer. All submissions will be fully peer reviewed and accepted papers and abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be included in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Full details of the preparation of submissions can be found on the conference web site.

Topics

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
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