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Opening the information bottleneck in complex scheduling problems with a novel representation: STARK diagrams

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posted on 2023-06-07, 23:30 authored by Peter ChengPeter Cheng, Rossano Barone, Peter I Cowling, Samad Ahmadi
This paper addresses the design of representational systems for complex knowledge rich problems, focussing on scheduling in particular. Multiple tables are ubiquitous in representations of schedule information, but they impose large cognitive demands and inhibit the comprehension of high-level patterns. The application and evaluation of representational design principles in the development of STARK diagrams, a novel system for scheduling problems, is reported. STARK diagrams integrate conceptual dimensions, principal relations and individual cases into a single diagrammatic structure. An experiment compared performance on STARK diagrams and a conventional representation with features typical of current commercial scheduling software interfaces. Subjects using the STARK diagram performed better at improving an examination schedule by minimising constraint violations. This provides support for the validity and utility of the design principles.

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Publication status

  • Published

ISSN

0302-9743

Publisher

Springer-Verlag, Berlin

Volume

2317

Pages

15.0

Presentation Type

  • paper

Event name

Diagrammatic representations and inference: Second International Conference, Diagrams 2002

Event type

conference

ISBN

3-540-43561-1

Department affiliated with

  • Informatics Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

M Hegarty, NH Narayanan, B Meyer

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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