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Iconic Communication
Do pictures enhance the communicative power of text?
Our society is becoming a more visual culture day-by-day. This book offers detailed analyses of how to combine words with pictures to communicate clearly across cultural barriers.
While some information is better communicated by one kind of media than another, some information is communicated most effectively through a combination of media. This book presents a critical framework within which iconic communication systems can be developed to truly bridge linguistic and cultural gaps and to provide effective computer-based systems for conveying information on a global scale.
With valuable insights for the Information and Communication industries, this book draws on the work presented at several conferences on the subject and is designed primarily for graphic designers and human-computer interface developers as well as supplementary reading on degree courses in Information Technology.
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Foundations
1 Human Communication Processes
Philip Barker
2 On the Possibility and Impossibility of a Universal Iconic
Communication System
Andrew J King
3 The Limits of Iconic Communication
John Roscoe
Part 2: Background
4 Some Pictorial Symbol Systems for Public Places
Ian McLaren
5 Double Vision
Michelle Gausman and Clive Chizlett
6 Communication through Icons
Masoud Yazdani
Part 3: Proposals
7 Do You See What I’m Saying?
Stuart Mealing
8 IconText: An Exploration of the Limitations of Iconic
Languages
Colin Beardon
9 Visualization of Textual Structures
Graziella Tonfoni
Part 4: Development of Prototypes
10 The Augmentation of Textual Communication with User-created Icons
Leon Cruickshank and Lon Barfield
11 VIL: A Visual Inter Lingua
Lee Becker and Paul Leemans
Part 5: Research Outcomes
12 Icons in the Mind
Philip Barker and Paul van Schaik
13 Designing and Evaluating Icons
Philip Barker and Paul van Schaik
14 Evaluating Appropriate Interface Metaphors
Paul Honeywill