Advance Program
The Diagrams 2008 technical program includes three keynote talks, two tutorials, 28 paper presentations and 28 poster presentations.
The following is a draft program for Diagrams 2008 and is subject to change, and can be downloaded here.
The program for Visual Week can be found here and a program at a glance can be found here.
Friday, September 19
8:00-9:00 | Registration |
9:00-10:30 | Session 1: Welcome and Keynote (joint with VL/HCC) |
This session will be chaired by Mark Minas in the Großer Saal | |
Model Driven Development with Mechatronic UML | |
10:30-11:00 | Break |
11:00-12:45 | Session 2: Diagram Aesthetics and Layout (joint with VL/HCC) |
This session will be chaired by Paolo Bottoni in the Großer Saal | |
General Euler Diagram Generation Euler Diagram Decomposition Smooth Linear Approximation of Non-overlap Constraints Extremes are Better: Investigating Mental Map Preservation in Dynamic Graphs | |
12:45-14:15 | Lunch |
14:15-15:30 | Session 3: Modelling and Graphs (joint with VL/HCC) |
This session will be chaired by John Hosking in the Großer Saal | |
Design-Time Simulation of Domain-Specific Models by Incremental Pattern Matching Generic and Reflective Visual Specification of Modeling Guidelines with Graph Transformations A Model-Driven Approach for the Visual Specification of Role Based Access Control Policies in Web Systems The papers presented in this session are accepted for VL/HCC. Further information about the papers will be made available at the conference registration desk. | |
15:30-16:00 | Break |
16:00-17:30 | Session 4: Psychological and Cognitive Issues |
This session will be chaired by Stephanie Elzer in Seminarraum 3 | |
An Eye-tracking Study of Exploitations of Spatial Constraints in Diagrammatic Reasoning What Diagrams Reveal about Representations in Linear Reasoning, and How they Help What Can Pictorial Representations Reveal about the Cognitive Characteristics of Autism? Visual Thinking with an Interactive Diagram (short) | |
18:30-20:30 | Evening Reception and Poster Session
The posters will be presented in two slots during the reception which takes place in the conference centre Lobby. A list of accepted posters and details on the slot in which they will be presented can be found below. |
Saturday, September 20
9:00-11:00 | Session 5: Tutorial |
This session will be hosted in the Großer Saal | |
Cognitive Dimensions of Notations: Understanding the Ergonomics of Diagram UseAlan Blackwell | |
11:00-11:30 | Break |
11:30-13:00 | Session 6: Tutorial |
This session will be hosted in the Großer Saal | |
Getting Started With Sketch Tools: A Tutorial on Sketch Recognition Tools | |
13:00-14:30 | Lunch |
14:30-15:45 | Session 7: Keynote |
This session will be chaired by Dave Barker-Plummer in the Großer Saal | |
Heterogeneous Reasoning | |
15:45-16:15 | Break |
16:15-17:35 | Session 8: Applications of Diagrams |
This session will be chaired by Richard Cox in the Großer Saal | |
Strategy Roadmaps: New Forms, New Practices VAST Improvements to Diagrammatic Scheduling using Representational Epistemic Interface Design Enhancing State-Space Tree Diagrams for Collaborative Problem Solving (short) Visual Programming with Interaction Net (short) | |
18:30 | Bus departs for Banquet |
19:00 | Conference Banquet The banquet will take place at Muehlfelder Brauhaus and include a brewery tour and beer tasting. |
Sunday, September 21
9:00-11:00 | Session 9: Theoretical Aspects |
This session will be chaired by Nik Swoboda in the Großer Saal | |
Spider Diagrams of Order and a Hierarchy of Star-Free Regular Languages Diagrammatic Reasoning System with Euler Circles: Theory and Experiment Design A Normal Form for Euler Diagrams with Shading Ensuring Generality in Formalizations of Euclid's Diagrammatic Arguments Depicting Negation in Diagrammatic Logic: Legacy and Prospects (short) | |
11:00-11:30 | Break |
11:30-12:45 | Session 10: Keynote |
This session will be chaired by Mary Hegarty in the Großer Saal | |
Rich Data Representation: Sophisticated Visual Techniques for Ease and Clarity | |
12:45-14:00 | Lunch |
14:00-15:30 | Session 11: Diagrams in Education |
This session will be chaired by Andrew Fish in the Großer Saal | |
Transforming Descriptions and Diagrams to Sketches in Information System Design Graphical Revelations: Comparing Students' Translation Errors in Graphics and Logic (short) Learning from Animated Diagrams: How are Mental Models Built? Diagrams for the Masses: Raising Public Awareness - from Neurath to Gapminder and Google Earth | |
15:30-15:50 | Break |
15:50-17:30 | Session 12: Understanding and Comprehension and Closing Remarks |
This session will be chaired by Alan Blackwell in the Großer Saal | |
Detection of Sample Differences from Dot Plot Displays Visualizing Non-subordination and Multidominance in Tree Diagrams: Testing Five Syntax Tree Variants The Effects of Users' Background Diagram Knowledge and Task Characteristics upon Information Display Selection Multimodal Comprehension of Graphics with Textual Annotations: The Role of Graphical Means Relating Annotations and Graph Lines (short) |
Poster Session 1: 18:30-19:00
Room: Lobby
Talk to the Hand: An Agenda for Further Research on Tactile Graphics
Frances Aldrich
Openproof - A Flexible Framework for Heterogeneous Reasoning
Dave Barker-Plummer, John Etchemendy, Albert Liu, Michael Murray and Nik Swoboda
Cognitive and Semantic Perspectives of Token Representation in Diagrams
Rossano Barone and Peter Cheng
Estimating Effort for Trend Messages in Grouped Bar Charts
Richard Burns, Stephanie Elzer and Sandra Carberry
Types and Programs from Euler Diagrams
James Burton
Diagrams in the UK National School Curriculum
Grecia Garcia Garcia and Richard Cox
LePUS3: An Object-Oriented Design Description Language
Epameinondas Gasparis, Jonathan Nicholson and Amnon Eden
Utilizing Feature Diagrams to Assess the Capabilities of Tools that Support the Model Driven Architecture
Benjamin Gorry
Diagrammatic knowledge-based tools for complex multi-dynamic processes
Ronald Grau and Peter Cheng
Supporting Reasoning and Problem-Solving in Mathematical Generalisation with Dependency Graphs
Sergio Gutierrez Santos, Darren Pearce, Eirini Geraniou and Manolis Mavrikis
A Concept Mapping Tool for Nursing Education
Norio Ishii and Saori Sakuma
Cognitive Methods for Visualizing Space, Time, and Agents
Angela Kessell and Barbara Tversky
Benefits of Constrained Interactivity in Using a Three-Dimensional Diagram
Peter Khooshabeh, Mary Hegarty and Madeleine Keehner
A Strategy for Drawing a Conceptual Neighborhood Diagram Schematically
Yohei Kurata
Poster Session 1: 19:00-19:30
Room: Lobby
Supporting relational processing in complex animated diagrams
Richard Lowe and Jean-Michel Boucheix
Animated Cladograms: Interpreting Evolution from Diagrams
Camillia Matuk
Automatic Diagram Drawing based on Natural Language Text Understanding
Anirban Mukherjee and Utpal Garain
Texts and graphs elaboration: the effect of graphs' examination on recall
Gisella Paoletti and Sara Rigutti
Diagrammatic Logic of Existential Graphs: A Case Study of Commands
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen
Diagrammatic Reasoning in Separation Logic
M. Ridsdale, M. Jamnik, N. Benton and J. Berdine
Method of Minimal Representation: An alternative Diagrammatic technique for testing the validity of Categorical Syllogisms
Sumanta Sarathi Sharma
The Relationship between Graph Comprehension and Spatial Imagery: Support for an Integrative Theory of Graph Cognition
Brandie Stewart, Aren Hunter and Lisa Best
Using MusicXML to Evaluate Accuracy of OMR systems
Mariusz Szwoch
Aestheticization of flowcharts
Wioleta Szwoch
Towards Diagrammatic Patterns
Merete Skjelten Tveit
Visualizing Meaning: Literacy Materials for Dyslexic Children
Myra Thiessen
Diagrammatic Interrelationships Between Global and Local Algebraic Visual Objects: Communicating the Visual Abstraction
Julie Tolmie
School Curriculum Development to Promote Student Spontaneous Diagram Use in Problem Solving
Yuri Uesaka and Emmanuel Manalo