GUTFREUND@UMASS-CS.CSNET ("Steven H. Gutfreund") (03/17/86)
I am looking for a reference. Is there some work that attempts to produce a comprehensive study of graphical representation (schematics) that are used by professionals. Examples would be architects, systems analysts, industrial designers, and logistic planners. There are, of course, civil engineers who actually go and construct scale models of things like dams, etc, and conduct their analysis on them. But I am looking for people who use 2-d and multidemenntional paper schematics for their analsys. Especially interesting are schematics which are not just passive, but allow the user to carry out graphical analysis on that chart. Something on the order of a fileVision, except that fileVision only does data queries. - Steven Gutfreund gutfreund@umass-cs.csnet