[1][2] These edugraphics, known by the term infographics or "information graphics", are used to explain different subjects (geography, history, science, biology...).
The term "edugraphic" is born from its cousin "infographic" which is relatively recent and the result of considerable debate in the design community.
The Society for Technical Communication group describes infographics as "the translation of complex, unorganized or unstructured data into valuable, meaningful information".
[5] Infographics made significant developments thanks to the journalistic use old newspapers[6] nowadays infographics are now being used in several media and they serve to condense large amounts of information gathered from data banks that are nowadays easily found on the internet.
The First International Conference on Graphics Education was held in Alvor, Algarve, Portugal 1993 with the name Edugraphics.