Persuasion Through Visual Metaphors:

Program Visualization through Visual Metaphors

Understanding the Structure of Information Visualization through Visual Metaphors

ii ABSTRACT CAROLINE ANN ZIEMKIEWICZ. Understanding the structure of information visualization through visual metaphors. (Under the direction of DR. ROBERT KOSARA) Every information visualization contains certain assumptions about the structure of its information: how the data can be broken down into pieces, how those pieces relate to one another, what actions can and cannot be performed with t...

Reasoning with visual metaphors

Research into visual reasoning up to now has focused on images that are literal depictions of their objects. I argue in this article that an important further mode of visual reasoning operates on images that depict objects metaphorically. Such images form part of the class of expressive symbols: they are found, for example, in allegorical representations in works of visual art, studied by icono...

Change through persuasion.

Faced with the need for a massive change, most managers respond predictably. They revamp the organization's strategy, shift around staff, and root out inefficiencies. They then wait patiently for performance to improve--only to be bitterly disappointed because they've failed to adequately prepare employees for the change. In this article, the authors contend that to make change stick, leaders m...

Teaching Microarchitecture Through Metaphors

Students traditionally learn microarchitecture by studying textual descriptions with diagrams but few analogies. Several popular textbooks on this topic introduce concepts such as pipelining and caching in the context of simple paper-only architectures. While this instructional style allows important concepts to be covered within a given class period, students have difficulty bridging the gap b...