NOT.1:11 - SoTA-Echoing
| Source and contribution | Adoption and limit |
|---|---|
| Blackwell and Green, Cognitive Dimensions of Notations, historical foundation, especially the activity and system analysis sections | Adopt analysis relative to activity, notation, environment and medium. The method uses concrete operations to expose costs and trade-offs. It retains the source’s warning that the dimensions are not a checklist yielding a universally best notation. |
| Brazauskas and Blackwell, PUX Explorer, PPIG 2024, §§2, 4.2 and 6 | Adapt the co-development of design problem and solution and the activity/experience comparison. Its study involved six specialist music-notation researchers. This supports a design aid at that scope, not general performance gains. Its trade-off weights were assigned from textual descriptions; they are not measured universal effects and are not imported here as quality scales. |
| Ross and colleagues, Affordances of Sketched Notations for Multimodal UI Design and Development Tools, 2025 preprint, abstract-level contribution | Retain the distinction between isolated-symbol recognition and interpretation of a whole contextual sketch in AI-assisted work. The abstract motivates checking the receiving context. It does not establish a general advantage of a particular design or interpreter. |
| Kruchten, McNutt and McGuffin, Metrics-Based Evaluation and Comparison of Visualization Notations, IEEE VIS 2023, §§3–4 | Reuse matched examples and their metrics to locate differences for closer reading when comparing working notations. The method assumes expressions implementing the shared tasks. Its metrics do not capture the whole user experience or supply a universally best notation. |
Choosing the design move. When the needed distinction is still unknown, construct a contrasting pair first. A gallery-based comparison already needs expressions that implement chosen tasks; preparing that gallery cannot replace discovering the missing task or distinction. Once several viable notations support a stable family of work, a shared set of examples becomes useful: compare the same readings and edits, use metrics to find costly cases, then inspect those cases. This costs more than the first pair but can expose repeated-change burdens hidden by one successful example. Reopen the small comparison when that broader burden could change the choice; NOT.7 develops the corresponding redesign. Cognitive Dimensions and PUX can also help discover or reformulate the operations to compare.
The contrast-based requirement construction and the two worked cases are the present synthesis. They connect notation design to available FPF representation, extraction and problem-development methods without prescribing one notation across practices.