The Theory and Application of Diagrams

Diagrams has previously been held on five occasions, located at various places around the world.

Diagrams 2008
Diagrams 2008 was held during September in Herrsching, Germany. This was the first time that Diagrams had been held outside of the UK or the USA. The organisers were Gem Stapleton (General Chair), John Howse and John Lee (Program Chairs), with Mark Minas as Local Chair. The proceedings were published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNAI 5223), with 19 long papers and 6 short papers being accepted from the 70 submissions, which were received from 24 countries. For the first time, Diagrams was colocated, running in conjunction with the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing and the ACM Symposium on Software Visualisation, along with two workshops and a graduate consortium; these events formed Visual Week.

In 2008, the Best Paper Award and the Best Student Paper Award were presented to, respectively:

• An Eye-tracking Study of Exploitations of Spatial Constraints in Diagrammatic Reasoning, Atsushi Shimojima and Yasuhiro Katagi
• What Diagrams Reveal about Representations in Linear Reasoning, and How they Help, Krista DeLeeuw and Mary Hegarty

The proceedings are available from Springer (LNAI 5223).

Diagrams 2006
Diagrams 2006 was held during June in Stanford, USA. The organisers were Dave Barker-Plummer (General Chair), Richard Cox and Nik Swoboda (Program Chairs). The proceedings were published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNAI 4045) and the acceptance rate was 30%. Submissions were received from both academia and industry, covering 23 countries and, as is typical for Diagrams, representing a wide range of disciplines.

In 2006, the Best Paper Award and the Best Student Paper Award were presented to, respectively:

• Communicative Signals as the Key to Automated Understanding of Simple Bar Charts, Stephanie Elzer, Sandra Carberry and Seniz Demir
• Active Comparison as a Means of Promoting the Development of Abstract Conditional Knowledge and the Appropriate Choice of Diagrams in Math Word Problem Solving, Yuri Uesaka and Emmanuel Manaslo

The proceedings are available from Springer (LNAI 4045).

Diagrams 2004
Diagrams 2004 was held during March in Cambridge, UK. The organisers were Alan Blackwell (General Chair), Kim Marriot and Atsushi Shimojima (Program Chairs), and Mateja Jamnik (Local Chair). The proceedings were published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNAI 2980) and the acceptance rate was 34%. Submissions were received from 18 countries.

In 2004, the Best Paper Award and the Best Student Paper Award were presented to, respectively:

• Generating Readable Proofs: A Heuristic Approach to Theorem Proving with Spider Diagrams, Jean Flower, Judith Masthoff and Gem Stapleton
• Incorporating Perceptual Task Effort into the Recognition of Intention in Information Graphics, Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry and James Hoffman

The proceedings are available from Springer (LNAI 2980).

Diagrams 2002
Diagrams 2004 was held during April in Callaway Gardens, USA. The organisers were Hari Narayanan (General Chair), Mary Hegarty and Bernd Meyer (Program Chairs). The proceedings were published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNAI 2317) and the acceptance rate was 27%.

In 2002, the Best Paper Award was presented to:

• Generating Euler Diagrams, Jean Flower and John Howse

The proceedings are available from Springer (LNAI 2317).

Diagrams 2000
Diagrams 2000 was held in September in Edinburgh, UK. The organisers were Program Chairs Michael Anderson, Peter Cheng and Volker Haarslev. The proceedings were published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNAI 1889) and the acceptance rate was 30% .

The proceedings are available from Springer (LNAI 1889).