NXT Space for Visual Thinking

Space for Thinking

A Plea for Visual Thinking

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Visual Thinking Design Patterns

In visual analytics, interactive data visualizations provide a bridge between analytic computations, often involving “big data”, and computations in the brain of the user. Visualization provides a high bandwidth channel from the computer to the user by means of the visual display, with interactions including brushing, dynamic queries, and generalized fisheye views designed to select and control...

Prototype Prolog API for Mindstorms NXT

The paper presents a pure Prolog-based API for controlling the LEGO Mindstorms NXT robot platform. In the paper the design as well the implementation is described, with an example algorithm presented. The API uses a multilayer architecture, composed of a behavioral, sensomotoric, and connection layer. This platform can be used as a generic solution for programming the NXT in Prolog. It also ser...

The Theoretical Framework for Creative Visual Thinking

This paper is an attempt to present a formal coherent framework for creative visual thinking. First, fundamentals of creativity and creative thought are discussed. Then designer’s dialogue with graphical outputs based on the constructive perception is analyzed. Constructive perception is defined as a composition of design actions combining normal seeing with visual imagination. The proposed fra...