Arrows in Comprehending and Producing Mechanical Diagrams

By Julie Heiser, Barbara Tversky. 2006

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Visualizing Thought (2011, background): “Although organizing a sketch using pictorial space may aid comprehension of the components of the system, it could prevent designers from ‘‘seeing’’ and using other organizations of components that might make better sense for the design.”
Towards a Framework for Attention Cueing in Instructional Animations: Guidelines for Research and Design (2009, background): “…the illustration functionally, as reflected by increased reports of functional inferences and use of verbs of motion and cause in their descriptions of the depicted content and improved understanding of the content (Heiser and Tversky 2002, 2006; Schneider and Boucheix, submitted for publication).”