TY - GEN
T1 - The emergence and evolution of graphical productions
AU - Fay, Nicolas
PY - 2007/11/27
Y1 - 2007/11/27
N2 - To study the development of graphical conventions, members of a simulated community were asked to play a series of graphical interaction games with partners drawn from the same pool. Once established, the community arrived at a set of conventional graphical referring expressions. The present paper offers a qualitative analysis of this interactive process, documenting the convergence and symbolization of participants' initially iconic graphical productions. This global process is contrasted with the local process evident among pairs who interact in isolation. Consistent with an evolutionary perspective, I argue that the graphical conventions that evolved within the simulated community are optimized representations, developed via a dynamic, interactive process.
AB - To study the development of graphical conventions, members of a simulated community were asked to play a series of graphical interaction games with partners drawn from the same pool. Once established, the community arrived at a set of conventional graphical referring expressions. The present paper offers a qualitative analysis of this interactive process, documenting the convergence and symbolization of participants' initially iconic graphical productions. This global process is contrasted with the local process evident among pairs who interact in isolation. Consistent with an evolutionary perspective, I argue that the graphical conventions that evolved within the simulated community are optimized representations, developed via a dynamic, interactive process.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=36348975050&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:36348975050
SN - 3540710086
SN - 9783540710080
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 357
EP - 361
BT - New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - JSAI 2003 and JSAI 2004 Conferences and Workshops, Revised Selected Papers
PB - Springer
CY - Japan
T2 - 17th and 18th Annual Conferences of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, (JSAI 2003 and JSAI 2004)
Y2 - 23 June 2003 through 27 June 2003
ER -