Figurative Properties of Visual-Graphical Signifiers in Tactical Planning Over a Map,

Abstract

This study aims to elucidate the figurative relations between spatial significants, such as geographical objects, and the visual-graphical (hand) signifiers that commanders use to designate or generate these significants on a map during a tactical planning task. Specifically, the objective is to specify whether visual-graphical signifiers have a physical property, such as a geometrical form, that reproduces a corresponding property of their significants. This study is part of a broader project aimed at speifying the symbolic (lexical, semantic, and figurative) properties of graphical actions in multimodal dialogues over a map during tactical planning. Knowledge of these properties will be used in the design of multimodal interfaces aimed at recognising and interpreting such graphical actions. The design of multimodal interfaces is in turn part of the development of digitized land forces.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA318745

Entities

People

  • Ginette Boudreau

Organizations

  • DRDC Toronto

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Classification
  • Command And Control
  • Computers
  • Consistency
  • Contrast
  • Human-Computer Interfaces
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Military Doctrine
  • National Security
  • Physical Properties
  • Production
  • Security
  • Three Dimensional
  • Topographic Maps
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Linguistics
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