Category Archives: Visualization

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Figure it out

Posted on March 25, 2022 by x28

It is a wonderful book about understanding. There are rich, comprehensive, very plausible descriptions of how we understand by associations, with external representations, and through interactions.
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No fear of entangled links

Posted on December 5, 2021 by x28

If you don’t trust that seemingly chaotic maps can often be nicely disentangled, you can now try a new function in my Thought Condensr tool: a puzzle game. Continue reading →

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Visualizing my Twitter network

Posted on December 5, 2020 by x28

My Twitter network is more of a bubble than I thought.
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Foundations

Posted on November 11, 2019 by x28

I tried to understand Stephen Downes’s “Philosophical Foundations of Connectivism“. Here is what I excerpted and remixed: below, or better on an interactive map, or in the  transient wiki. Sensations from anywhere “We don’t just sense what we see, feel, … Continue reading →

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Traversing a network

Posted on November 1, 2019 by x28

Navigation in a hypertext is just text, right? Well, watch it visualized…
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Invisibility and cognition

Posted on July 22, 2019 by x28

What is cognition? Invisibility seems to play an important role.
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Zettelkasten visualized

Posted on June 21, 2019 by x28

This is the famous Zettelkasten of the systems theorist Niklas Luhmann in a video from 1989. Now the University of Bielefeld has put it online. It is in German but it would be a pity if it missed a wider … Continue reading →

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Cmaps and the “Split Attention Effect”

Posted on June 23, 2018 by x28

The “Split Attention Effect” from Cognitive Load Theory demands that an annotation needs to be close to the item it refers to. I wonder if this is still true if the annotation can be reached by a saccadic eye movement.
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Zooming is overrated

Posted on April 1, 2018 by x28

Many people are enthusiastic about the ‘Big Picture’ attitude. Some even quote Dyson’s distinction between birds (who “fly high”) and frogs (who “live in the mud”).

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Unflattening

Posted on April 15, 2016 by x28

The gem of Sousanis’ book “Unflattening” was that it does a great job explaining why the right hemisphere mode (“all-at-once”) lives from relations: Basically, it argues that the eye is “dancing and darting”, i.e. by its saccadic motion (palpation by means of the gaze) it captures only small fragments at a time, and it is our imagination that needs to combine them into vision.
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