Iconic Communication

Do pictures enhance the communicative power of text? This book explains how to combine words with pictures on the computer screen, to communicate clearly across the cultural barriers that new technologies are breaking down.

The Internet is making our culture a more visual one, day-by-day. But some kinds of information are better communicated by one kind of media over another, and other kinds of information require a combination of media. This book presents a 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 is designed primarily for graphic designers and human-computer interface developers as well as supplementary reading on degree courses in Information Technology.

Masoud Yazdani is Professor of Digital Media at the University of the West of England, Bristol Philip Barker is Professor at the HCI Lab, Tesside University

Preface
Foundations
Human Communication Processes	p. 1
On the Possibility and Impossibility of a Universal Iconic Communication System	p. 17
The Limits of Iconic Communication	p. 29
Background
Some Pictorial Symbol Systems for Public Places	p. 42
Double Vision	p. 51
Communication through Icons	p. 63
Proposals
Do You See What I'm Saying?	p. 68
IconText: An Exploration of the Limitations of Iconic Languages	p. 79
Visualisation of Textual Structures	p. 92
Development of Prototypes
The Augmentation of Textual Communication with User-created Icons	p. 111
VIL: A Visual Inter Lingua	p. 126
Research Outcomes
Icons in the Mind	p. 143
Designing and Evaluating Icons	p. 161
Evaluating Appropriate Interface Metaphors	p. 178
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