Mind maps are popular, ubiquitous even. But the links in mind maps are associations, which is low low level information. What are the other choices of information mapping techniques?

1. Lawrie Hunter
Kochi University of Technology
http://lawriehunter.com
Mind Maps
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2. Everybody uses mind maps
-low-text
-spatial manipulation
-every link is an association

3. The links are all associations.
Mind maps

4. Mind map links are associations:
they have no character
?

5. boats
banana
SO mind maps are ambiguous

6. boats
banana
SO mind maps are ambiguous

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Sometimes the links are plain lines: associations
Mind mapping

8. Sometimes some nodes are links
Mind mapping
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9. SO mind maps are random
-in structure
-in degree of abstraction
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10. And mind maps are dangerous
if you ignore visual metaphors
such as "down is subordinate"

11. boats
banana
BUT mind maps
don't have to be ambiguous
shaped like
for example

12. The main styles of mapping
Rhetorical structure maps
= argument maps
Information structure maps
Syntactic maps
Association maps
Grammar maps (not maps)
Argument
mapping
Info-structure mapping
Syntactic mapping
Grammar mapping (pseudo)
Association
mapping

13. of
language
uses of
mapping
representing
structures
organizing
thoughts
of
information