Human communication through Graphic Design

As technology has become more advanced, the ways to communicate are endless. People do not have to be in each others presence to communicate. With new social networking systems emotion is being expressed without body language and human to human contact. This thesis will explore how graphic design can benefit and grow from learning how people are able to express their emotions through technology.

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The main goal of this paper is to identify critical factors that are closely related to the aesthetic fidelity of web pages, which is defined as the degree to which users feel the target impressions intended by designers. In order to achieve our goal, we have conducted three consecutive studies: an exploratory study with web users, a longitudinal experiment with professional web designers, and finally an online survey with web users. The results from the three studies indicated that the variability of user perception and appropriateness of visual elements were closely related to the aesthetic fidelity of web pages, whereas reliability of aesthetic dimensions was not. This paper ends with the limitations and implications of the study results.

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Theory

2.1. Aesthetic fidelity and secondary emotion
2.2. Reliability of aesthetic dimensions
2.3. Variability of user perception
2.4. Appropriateness of visual elements

3. Preliminary study

3.1. Experimental materials
3.2. Survey procedure
3.3. Analysis and results

4. Longitudinal experiment

4.1. Experimental design and procedure
4.2. Data analysis

5. Online survey

5.1. Survey methods and procedure
5.2. Survey data
5.3. Aesthetic fidelity of the web pages

6. Test results of the three hypotheses

6.1. Reliability of aesthetic dimensions
6.2. Variability of user perception
6.3. Appropriateness of graphical elements

7. Conclusion and discussion
Acknowledgements
References


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Expressing emotion in electronic mail
Author(s):
Kevin Curran, Michelle Casey
Journal:
Kybernetes
Year:
2006
Volume:
35
Issue:
5
Page:
616 - 631
ISSN:
0368-492X
10.1108/03684920610662368
Publisher:
Emerald Group Publishing Limited

The Humanity of Animals and the Animality of Humans

The Humanity of Animals and the Animality of Humans: A View from Biological Anthropology Inspired by... more
Agustin Fuentes
American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 108, No. 1 (Mar., 2006), pp. 124-132
Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association

his novel "Elizabeth Costello" (2003), J. M. Coetzee's title character espouses philosophical perspectives on cruelty and the human condition in a series of fictionalized lectures. In particular, she takes on the question of human cruelty to animals. As novelist, Coetzee relies on lyrical statements about the nature of cruelty, analogies between the atrocities of fascism and factory farms, and ethical elitism to address these issues.

Woman Arrested for Burning Dogs

Franklin - A Johnson County woman is behind bars accused of dousing her own dogs with gasoline and then burning them. The woman now faces two felony counts of animal cruelty.

http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=12165377

Another Possible Thesis Idea

So I have been thinking, well more like smashing my head against my desk at work, trying to come up with something that I am truly passionate about. Then it hit me. Something that I am extremely passoinate about is animals. Particularily in the safety and well being of animals. Most people have no idea what happens to many outdoor pets that are not fixed and what happens to their offspring and pets that are left on the streets. Also what happens to many animals when taken into pounds, sanctuaries and organizations such as PETA.

I have not decided if i want to include information such as the clubbing of baby seals, and the markets in which thousands of animals are killed and sold for money.

End Results:
1)Logo
2)Inetractive informative Website
3)Books on how to properly care for your pet
4) Awareness Posters

Interactive Information Website
http://interactive.nfb.ca/waterlife/

The Psychobiological Model: Towards a New Theory of Computer-Mediated Communication Based on Darwinian Evolution
Author(s): Ned Kock
Source: Organization Science, Vol. 15, No. 3 (May - Jun., 2004), pp. 327-348
Published by: INFORMS
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30034736

The model proposes that there is a negative causal link between the "naturalness" of a computer-mediated communication medium, which is the similarity of the medium to the face-to-face medium, and the cognitive effort required from an individual using the medium for knowledge transfer. The model also states that this link is counterbalanced by what are referred to as "schema alignment" and "cognitive adaptation." The schema alignment construct refers to the similarity between the mental schemas of an individual and those of other participant(s).

Readings 5

Why Can't Designers Think

Michael Bierut

-take part in fields of interest that their clients are involved in

-Designers get to have conversation, about Real estate, Science or whatever their clients are involved in

-there are several design schools popping up around, young people have decided that they could to be successful in design.

-There are two different types of schools, process schools and portfolio schools.

-portfolio schools focus on creating a portfolio right when the student is done school and is ready for a job.

-process schools focus on exercises that build the designers skills.

-Proffs from these portfolio schools are working in the field and find that small excersises do not relate to real life experience.

I agree with this article, however both types of schools, come with setbacks. Without learning the basics, the easy escersises, students do not have a strong foundation for design. Students however in process schools, end up with no portfolio. This means the student needs to take the time and build their own. This could result in not getting a job right out of school.

I come to bury Graphic Design

Kenneth Fitzgerald

-We should be resigned to never achieving full regard for expert design production, The reason is that as the non-designer public become converts to design’s message, the conversion is total.

-The design connoisseur will become a designer—and by all measures, a good one, too. The situation is analogous to why it’s impossible to surpass the speed of light. The additional energy that is input to increase acceleration is progressively converted to mass.

-We seek a society where everyone is making art, being creative.

-If everyone is an artist or designer, than no one is as well.

-Interest in “undesigned” design has also increased recently. This approach isn’t anti-design, as it doesn’t mock the field’s concerns. It is puritan, invoking what is thought of as an essential form purged of visual rhetoric and subjectivity.

-The movie did not work.

Body Language Speaks Volumes

How to read body language

Up to 93 % of communication is non-verbal. Including tone of voice, eye movement, posture, hand gestures, facial expressions and more.

The eyes communicate more than any other part of the human anatomy.

Eyebrow muscle draws the eyebrows down and toward the center of the face if someone is annoyed. If someone is empathetic and caring during dialogue the eyebrows will not show the annoyed facial grimace.

The smile: There are 50 or so different types of human smiles.

Bodily cues are the most reliable of all nonverbal signals of deception to help you read body language. This is because a person generally has less conscious control over these than other signals. (Springer, 1996; Ekman & Friesen, 1974). Hand-to-face gestures and shrugs are strong markers of deception. Playing with or touching things nearby during conversations has been found to be associated with deception (Cody & O'Hair, 1983). Deceivers also are likely to have increased illustrator activity--quick and animated use of hands/arms during speech.

Gestures communicate. Hand signals can communicate without the use of any speech. Touching communicates. Touching can be friendly or it can be aggressive.

http://www.positive-way.com/body.htm

So I am pretty lost with my thesis right now. I just do not know how to make the connection between graphic design and human communication. The topic is pretty broad so I am trying break it down to make it more simple. However I feel lost.

There are so many components, like using this blog for example is now a form of communication, twitter, my space, are all forms of communication. However you cannot see facial expression or body language yet dating sites are very popular. How can you really know a person without being able to see emotion in their body and face.