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Davies, J., & Goel, A. K. (2003). Representation issues in visual analogy. in R. Alterman and D. Kirsh (Eds.) Proceedings of The 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 300--305.

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Visual knowledge alone is sufficient for some analogical problem-solving.
Symoblic, descriptive visual representations are useful for transfer.
Grouping appears to be necessary for some transfer of some transformations.

BibTex Entry:

@InProceedings{DaviesGoel2003,
  author =	 {Davies, Jim and Goel, Ashok K.},
  title =	  {Representation issues in visual analogy},
  booktitle =	   {Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the
  Cognitive Science Society},
  OPTpages =    {300--305},
    year =    {2003},
  OPTeditor =	 {Alterman, R. and Kirsh, D.},
  OPTaddress =	     {Boston, MA},
  OPTpublisher = {Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers},
  OPTnote =     {},
  OPTannote =	 {}
}

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From the Visual Analogy research theme.

Abstract

Visual analogies are analogies based on visual similarity. Galatea is a computer program that addresses the transfer task in visual analogies in the context of problem solving. Each source case in Galatea contains a problem-solving procedure, represented as a series of knowledge states and transformations between them. Source cases and target problems are represented in a symbolic language whose primitives pertain only to spatial objects and relations, and operations on them. Given visual representations of a source case and a target problem, and a mapping between the first knowledge state in the source and the target, Galatea adapts and transfers the problem solving procedure in the source to the target. In this paper, we describe some representation issues that arose in developing Galatea and its answers to them.

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