Visualizing Technical Information: A Cultural Critique (Baywood's Technical Communications)

By Kent L. Koppelman and Kent L Koppelman

Visualizing Technical Information: A Cultural Critique demonstrates the ways in which the leading technical visuals of information design-graphs, charts, diagrams, tables, illustrations, and information visualization-are designed and read. Using genre theory as an analytical tool, the author makes the argument that problems with these visual forms are not necessarily the result of a designer's poor decisions or a reader's poor interpretation skills. Instead, there may be inherent problems in the visual genres themselves that are a direct result of their cultural history and current use.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895032171
• ISBN13: 9780895032171
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"