For many applications, it is important that agents be not only correct, but also comprehensible to human users. Typically, people have tr ied to make agents' behavior and reasoning understandable by adding post-hoc specialpurpose explanation systems, wi th often disappointing results. Here, I instead take the comprehensibility of agent behavior as a cent ra l agent design consideration from the...

This paper discusses visual information representation from the perspective of human comprehension. The distortion viewing paradigm is an appropriate focus for this discussion as its motivation has always been to create more understandable displays. While these techniques are becoming increasingly popular for exploring images that are larger than the available screen space, in fact users someti...

Abstract Most people who use the word ‘Latin’ as name of a language in antiquity (not Medieval or Neo-Latin therefore) seem unaware that Latin was continuum made up many different varieties, Classical (which they identify with Latin) being only one them. So when talk spoken mean Latin, no other variety from available is suitable to be spoken. This ironic on two counts. First, overwhelming major...

This study examined how emergent features, which are made salient in the interpretation of metaphor, are related to metaphor appreciation. According to an incongruity resolution model of poetic appreciation, the role of emergent features in metaphor appreciation is predicted to facilitate poetic appreciation by constituting a richer interpretation when topic–vehicle similarity is lower. Two exp...

This paper presents new specific values regarding the topical impact analysis. These values make comprehensible statements that provide concrete comparative output to describe the differences between an initial topical map and an impact map. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the topical scope any institution has with its output. The Know-Center, an institute for knowledge technology in G...