Mark Last - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

Visualizations can stand in many relations to texts -and, as research into learning with pictures... more Visualizations can stand in many relations to texts -and, as research into learning with pictures has shown, they can become particularly valuable when they transform the contents of the text (rather than just duplicate its message or structure it). But what kinds of transformations can be particularly helpful in the learning process? In this paper, we argue that interacting with, and creating, summaries of texts is a key transformation technique, and we investigate how textual and graphical summarization approaches, as well as automatic and manual summarization, can complement one another to support effective learning.