VRI'2002
Provisional Programme

Monday 9th September
 
 

9:00 - 9:30	Richard Latto Univ. Liverpool Do We Like What We See?
9:30 - 10:00	Michael Holcombe, Samantha Smith, Rowan Merewood and Andy Swingeford Univ. Sheffield Computational Modelling of Creativity in Abstract Art
10:00 - 10:30	Nina Zschocke Univ. Köln The Strategy of Visual Irritation: forms of ambiguous representation in contemporary art
11:00 - 12:00	Invited Speaker Felice Frankel MIT Envisioning Science, Making Good Science Look Good
12:00 - 12:30	Laura Perini Virginia Tech. Convention, Resemblance and Isomorphism: understanding scientific visual representations
14:00-14:45	Barbara Tversky Univ. Stanford Some Ways Graphics Communicate
14:45-15:30	John Lee Univ. Edinburgh Component Modes of Graphical Communication
16:00 - 16:30	Jack Ox New York The 21st Century Virtual Color Organ, Two Performances: "Grid Jam", "Im Januar am Nil"
16:30-17:00	Andrea Gschwendtner Univ der Künste Berlin Interaction Between People and Machines as a Narrative and Visual Figure in Films: a historical study of motifs
17:00-17:30	Bernard Harper Univ. Liverpool Photographic Body Image Distortion

 
 
 

Tuesday 10th September
 
 

9:00 - 9:30	Jesse Norman Univ. College London Iconicity and Direct Interpretation
9:30 - 10:00	Iulian D. Toader Univ. Bucharest A Diagrammatic Reconstruction of Carnap's Quasianalysis
10:00 - 10:30	Ahti Pietarinen Univ. Helsinki Diagrammatic Logic and Game-Playing
11:00 - 12:00	Invited Speaker Arthur Miller Univ. College London Title to be confirmed
12:00 - 12:30	Marco Bertamini, Alice Spooner and Heiko Hecht Univ. Liverpool, MIT The Representation of Naive Knowledge about Physics
14:00-14:45	June Luchjenbroers Univ. Wales Bangor Visual and Verbal Cues for Navigating Mental Space
14:45-15:30	Joseph Goguen Univ. California at San Diego Information Visualization and Semiotic Morphisms
16:00 - 16:30	Kamran Sedig and Jim Morey Univ. Western Ontario A Descriptive Framework for Designing Interaction for Visual Abstractions
16:30-17:00	Kamran Sedig, Jim Morey, Robert Mercer and  Wayne W. Wilson Univ. Western Ontario Visualizing, Interacting and Experimenting with Lattices Using a Diagrammatic Representation
17:00-17:30	Walter Whiteley Univ. York, Can. Teaching to See Like a Mathematician

 
 
 

Wednesday 11th September
 
 

9:00 - 9:30	Ernst Binz, Sonja Pods and Walter Schempp Univs. Mannheim, Siegen The Heisenberg Group as a Fundamental Structure in Nature
9:30 - 10:00	Ray Paton Univ. Liverpool Mobilising Knowledge Models Using Societies of Graphs
10:00 - 10:30	Felix T. Hong Wayne State Univ. Why Visual Thinking is Superior to Verbal Thinking
11:00 - 11:30	John Howard Parish Univ. Leeds Emerging Descriptions in Molecular Biology
11:30 - 12:00	Charles Lund Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle Developments in the Use of a Visual Representation with Reference to Clinical Problems
12:00-12:30	Lisa Jenschke, Lawrence Arnstein, Neil Fanger, Joseph Duncan, Chia-Yang Hung, Annie Wang, Eugene Lam, Siobhan Quinn and Jing Chih Su Univ. Washington Labscape: interactive procedural modeling as an educational tool
14:00-14:30	Harald F. Teutsch Univ. Ulm Modular Design of the Liver of the Rat
14:30 - 15:00	Sylvia B. Nagl Univ. College London Art and Post-Genomic Medecine

 
 
 

Thursday12th September
 
 

9:00 - 9:30	Christopher Rose Univ. Brighton Vision, Drawing and Design
9:30 - 10:00	Peter Bradley Univ. Washington, St. Louis The Unity of Color: a quasi-functional proposal
10:00 - 10:30	Michael A.R. Biggs Univ. Hertfordshire Visualisation and Wittgenstein's "Tractatus"
11:00 - 11:30	Isabelle M.S. Ferreira, Linden J. Ball, Tim Friede and Stephen A.R. Scrivener Univs. Lancaster, Coventry Sketching Behaviour in Object Recall and Object Copying
11:30-12:00	Elias August, Claudia Eckert and P. John Clarkson Univ. Cambridge Using design Structure Matrices in Visualising Design
12:00 - 12:30	Dimosthenis Karatzas and Apostolos Antonacopoulos Univ. Liverpool Visual Representation of Text in Web Documents and its Interpretation
14:00-14:45	Deborah Leishman and Laura McNamara Los Alamos National Lab. Interlopers, Translators, Scribes and Seers: anthropology, knowledge representation and Bayesian statistics for predictive modeling in multidisciplinary science and engineering projects
14:45-15:30	David Gooding Univ. Bath title to be confirmed