The book aims to encourage multiple perspective reading attitudes, which are meant to trigger and inspire new ways of viewing and engineering information. An innovative linguistic theory as well as a new model for text generation and text understanding are illustrated. The linguistic theory, enhanced by a novel artificial intelligence-based approach, will help readers to acquire information engineering skills and may be implemented in the design of knowledge management systems.

Ein konsistentes visuelles Reprasentationssystem knupft an Erfahrungen und Bildwelten in anderen Lebens- und Wissenschaftsbereichen an und verdeutlicht durch visuelle Metaphern (geometrische Figuren, Textmaschinen), die die Prozesse des Textverstehens und Textproduzierens nachvollziehbar machen, wie Information und Kommunikation im Text zusammenkommen. Die Autorinnen zeigen, dass die metaphorische Sprache insgesamt ein konzeptuelles Instrument fur Theorie und Praxis der Arbeit an Dokumenten bildet und dass sich das vorgestellte System sowohl fur den Umgang mit Geschichten als auch zur Organisation der E-Mail-Kommunikation einsetzen lasst.
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An innovative text that approaches complex concepts with relative ease and simplicity, this new work by internationally-known Graziella Tonfoni takes the reader on an architectural excursion that is the metaphorical representation of the components of the expression of knowledge. Through the progressive building and exploration of consistently designed and complex metaphors, which the author calls "metaphorical environments," the reader will come to understand the building principles upon which to base the construction of multimedia forms. The first section of the book creates the setting for accurately understanding the context and deals with the implications of designing teaching material for a course in information design. Other sections build upon this groundwork using a series of descriptions of actual architectural structures. A final section of visuals is meant to facilitate active learning of those concepts previously introduced. Blank boxes on each page in this last section encourage the reader to re-number the pages to create an individual path that relates the concepts to different sections of the text.