Graphical Language Research Articles

Exploring the Elements and Principles of Graphic Language in Visual Graphic Design

Exploring the Elements and Principles of Graphic Language in Visual Graphic Design

The application of abstract think and graphic language for diagrammatic thinking in space design

Environmental design as a practical major in the university, is concentrating on training students to become professional designers to fit the requirements of the design market today. Traditional design education that only construction documents with CAD technology training has no longer satisfied the needs of economy and the market today, so we have to explore new strategy to change the way of teaching. This article explores some examples of new strategy of how to set up lecture, studio practices, and competition workshop for environmental design course system in high education institute in China. The goal is to transform abstractive thinking in art and design perception to representational diagram in visual technique. We hope this new exploration can reform the atmosphere during studio education, with merging new technique such as new digital media, AI and IT technology, and therefore, change the learning technique and improve students to learn more.

CUMHURİYET SONRASI 1950 KUŞAĞI İLE ÇAĞDAŞLAŞAN TÜRK GRAFİK MİZAHI ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME: TURHAN SELÇUK ÖRNEĞİ

Considering the development of graphic humor in our country, it is seen that it is modernized parallel to the industrial and social developments after the Republic. Especially with İhap Hulusi Görey, the increase in graphic design productions before the state and the establishment of the Poster Workshop, the narrative of the graphic language also affected the art of caricature. In this process, graphic art productions became visible in the country's history. Modern cartoon lines, which began to appear with the works of Cemal Nadir Güler, Necmi Rıza Ayça, Kozma Togo, and Ratip Tahir, attracted attention in the world with Saul Steinberg's modern graphic humor style in the 1950s, and Turhan Selçuk, along with many cartoonists, began to give examples in our country. The word "Graphic Humor," which refers to the graphic values in his lines and the lines that gain meaning with the story of pure lines free from writing, has started to be used more frequently for his works. The artist, whose recognition significantly increased with the comic book "Abdülcanbaz," is one of the rare illustrators who can be recognized by his lines, even if he doesn't sign the works he produces in his style. The artist, whose recognition significantly increased with the comic book "Abdülcanbaz" is one of the rare illustrators that can be recognized by his lines, even if he doesn't sign the works he produces in his style. In addition, the artist, also known internationally, has made a name for himself among the press cartoonists with his lines interpreting social and political determinations. This study uses the systematic data scanning method to examine the artistic life of Turhan Selçuk, Türkiye's pioneering graphic humor artist, as the graphic representative of contemporary lines.

On large automata processing: towards a high level distributed graph language

On large automata processing: towards a high level distributed graph language

INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO TEACHING GRAPHIC DESIGN FOR FUTURE TEACHERS OF LABOR EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF IT EDUCATION

This article examines the importance of effectively integrating graphic design into computer science education, emphasizing the need for integrative curricula. It is emphasized that such an approach requires taking into account the specifics of both disciplines and contributes to the formation of a comprehensive understanding of the subject, the development of professional competencies, and the training of specialists capable of meeting the requirements of modern society. In the context of the rapid development of digital technologies, the article emphasizes the relevance of the integration of graphic design into IT education. The practical aspects of such integration are considered, including the usage of innovative technical tools, programs, and teaching methods aimed at improving the quality of education.
 Special attention is paid to project-oriented learning, which allows students to implement practical tasks, developing both graphic and computer skills. Examples are given of how students can be involved in the development of websites, mobile applications, and multimedia projects, using knowledge from both fields. Emphasis is also placed on the importance of software tools such as Adobe Photoshop, and Illustrator for graphic design and programming languages and environments for web development, enabling students to acquire the necessary technical skills for their future careers.
 Special attention is paid to the role of integration in qualified teacher training capable of working effectively in a high-tech, information-oriented society. Specific examples of courses and projects that demonstrate the implementation of an interdisciplinary approach in education are provided, as well as recommendations for further improvement of educational programs are developed. The analysis emphasizes the potential and importance of integrated teaching of graphic design and informatics for the training of future teachers, aimed at their professional development and improvement of the educational process in general.

Teaching methodology for modeling the activities of company within the discipline “Design of information systems”

Problem statement . The topic of modeling the activity of a company within the discipline “Design of information systems” remains one of the most difficult for students to understand. Students quickly master CASE tools and the syntax of graphic languages, but this is not enough to build correct models. Difficulties are associated with the lack of clear criteria for the correctness of the model and the many alternative solutions. The purpose of the study is to develop a methodology for teaching modeling, which will allow students to form a deeper understanding of the topic. Methodology . Experimental work was carried out on the basis of the Donetsk Academy of Management and Public Administration. In the experiment took part 79 students of the second year of bachelor's degree in the direction of training 09.03.03 “Applied informatics”. The experiment consisted of an anonymous questionnaire and statistical processing of its results. Results. Based on the analysis of typical mistakes of students, a “worksheet” has been developed, consisting of a number of empirical rules, which is recommended to be issued to students before starting to independently perform the simulation. Students are encouraged to constantly check for compliance of the constructed models with the proposed rules. The results of the experiment showed significant qualitative changes in the implementation of individual projects by students who used the proposed “worksheets”. Conclusion . The use of the described methodology in teaching students of the direction of training 09.03.03 “Applied informatics” within the discipline “Information systems design” provided a more conscious approach of students to modeling and, as a result, more correct performance of tasks.

SCIENTIFIC AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF STUDY GRAPHIC CULTURE AND DESIGN BY FUTURE TEACHERS OF TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION

The article analyzes the variety of interpretations of the concept of "culture" in the social sciences and the importance of understanding this concept. The concept of "design" and its various aspects, including graphic design, are also studied, the role of graphic design in creating a modern subject environment and in satisfying artistic and aesthetic needs is indicated, the role of graphic images in various contexts is considered, including their use for displaying data and creating technical drawings and drawings. Also highlighted is the problem of graphic training of future technology teachers and the importance of integrating graphic training with coaching tools, revealed graphic culture as a key aspect of communication and the use of graphic language in various spheres of life. It was determined that almost 90% of information is perceived by a person visually, thereby emphasizing the advantages of graphic information over text. The relationship between graphic and artistic culture was studied, and various components of graphic culture were identified, including motivational-value, cognitive, operational-activity and creative. The importance of the development of graphic culture is emphasized, as it is a necessary component of the professional activity of future technology teachers. The importance of the formation of graphic terminology and skills among students is highlighted, as well as the active use of information technologies in the educational process. It is noted that graphic culture is aimed at increasing the level of creativity and developing the abilities of students in the field of creating graphic images.

Generation and Polynomial Parsing of Graph Languages with Non-Structural Reentrancies

Abstract Graph-based semantic representations are popular in natural language processing, where it is often convenient to model linguistic concepts as nodes and relations as edges between them. Several attempts have been made to find a generative device that is sufficiently powerful to describe languages of semantic graphs, while at the same allowing efficient parsing. We contribute to this line of work by introducing graph extension grammar, a variant of the contextual hyperedge replacement grammars proposed by Hoffmann et al. Contextual hyperedge replacement can generate graphs with non-structural reentrancies, a type of node-sharing that is very common in formalisms such as abstract meaning representation, but that context-free types of graph grammars cannot model. To provide our formalism with a way to place reentrancies in a linguistically meaningful way, we endow rules with logical formulas in counting monadic second-order logic. We then present a parsing algorithm and show as our main result that this algorithm runs in polynomial time on graph languages generated by a subclass of our grammars, the so-called local graph extension grammars.

Digital Code as an Object Graphic Design for Dissemination and Promotion of Brand

Summary The article reveals the features of the graphic language of coded information by identifying, systematizing, and combining QR-codes and AR-codes at the present stage of graphic design development. The analysis of coded information in different types of graphic design is presented: advertising, environmental, motion, print, packaging, set prop, web, mobile app, art, and illustration graphic design. The role of a graphic designer in the development of digital codes of various types for various fields of application is described. It is proved that the coded information is a trigger between the online and offline worlds. The article also reveals the importance of using coded information for the formation, development, and improvement of the brand.

Conducting Ethical Field Research on Rape in West African Settings: Case Study of 2018 Liberian Field Survey

Background: Rape scholarship in West Africa is growing, but studies often utilize Westernized approaches. A 2018 study using a randomized survey design assessing rape among Liberian girls incorporated modified survey design methods to improve ethical data collection relevant to the cultural and contextual contexts. This article presents the findings of a thorough review of rape scholarship and design methods. Methods: Based on a qualitative analysis of field notes by the research team, we present lessons learned and best practices identified in the planning, pilot-testing, and implementation phases of the 2018 Liberian study. Results: This study helps inform innovative design methods striving to (1) avoid using obtrusively graphic language or labels prevalent in westernized studies, (2) authentically collaborate with African experts to adapt strategies to be culturally appropriate and contextually relevant, and (3) create respectfully transparent interactions with respondents and communities. Extensive research preparation and inclusive regional expertise inform compassionate methodological techniques, yielding improved Afro-centric participant experience, low participant attrition, and quality data use in policymaking. (4) Conclusions: This article offers innovative design methods to study rape, placing context, culture, and participants at the heart. Authentic collaboration with national-level experts is vital for conducting more reliable and ethical field research in the African region.

Tree-Based Generation of Restricted Graph Languages

Order-preserving DAG grammars (OPDGs) is a formalism for representing languages of structurally restricted graphs. As demonstrated in [17], they are sufficiently expressive to model abstract meaning representations in natural language processing, a graph-based form of semantic representation in which nodes encode objects and edges relations. At the same time, they can be parsed in [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are the sizes of the grammar and the input graph, respectively. In this work, we provide an initial algebra semantic for OPDGs, which allows us to view them as regular tree grammars under an equivalence theory. This makes it possible to transfer results from the field of formal tree languages to the domain of OPDGs, both in the unweighted and the weighted case. In particular, we show that deterministic OPDGs can be minimised efficiently, and that they are learnable under the “minimal adequeate teacher” paradigm, that is, by querying an oracle for equivalence between languages, and membership of individual graphs. To conclude, we demonstrate that the languages generated by OPDGs are definable in monadic second-order logic.

AGL: Incorporating behavioral aspects into domain-driven design

Domain-driven design (DDD) aims to iteratively develop software around a realistic domain model. Recent research in DDD has been focusing on using annotation-based domain-specific languages (aDSLs) to build the domain model. However, within current approaches behavioral aspects, that are often represented using UML Activity and State machine diagrams, are not explicitly captured in the domain model. The focus of this paper is to introduce a new approach for incorporating behavioral aspects into domain models within the Domain-Driven Design (DDD) approach. The proposed approach involves using a new activity graph language (AGL) as an aDSL for representing behavioral aspects within a unified domain model. This integration of AGL and the previously developed aDSL (DCSLto represent domain models) aims to achieve three important features of DDD: feasibility, productivity, and understandability. Our approach involves building a unified class model in DCSLwithin a domain-driven architecture, which uses the annotation attachment feature of the host programming language (such as Java) to attach AGL activity graphs directly to the activity class of the unified class model, resulting in a unified domain model. In this work, we define the abstract and concrete syntax of AGL. To demonstrate our method, we use a Java framework called jDomainApp and evaluate AGL through a case study to show that it is expressive and practical for real-world software. This paper presents two contributions. Firstly, it proposes a mechanism to include behavioral aspects in a unified domain model by introducing a new aDSL called AGL to represent domain behaviors. Secondly, it presents a unified modeling method for domain-driven software development. Our method significantly extends the state-of-the-art in DDD in two important fronts: constructing a unified domain model for both structural and behavioral aspects of domain models and bridging the gaps between model and code.

Writing without wordsSymbols: An Evolutionary History from the Stone Age to the Future Richard Sproat Springer Cham, 2023. 235 pp.

A computational linguist probes the relationship between graphical symbol systems and language.

“Health is a serious game”: Gamification as a tool for primary prevention in Public Health

Abstract Background Gamification, according to literature, is the use of game design elements in non-game contexts. Rewards (e.g. points, badges and rankings) are a gamification strategy to entice users to complete required tasks and could be useful for Public Health (PH) interventions to promote healthy lifestyles. This study aims to find out which gamification approaches are most useful in PH. Methods We investigated PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science databases to conduct our systematic review, including articles published up to February 3, 2023. Prisma Statement 2020 guidelines were used. No time limits were included. Only articles in Italian or English that discussed gamification interventions in PH, effectiveness and user satisfaction were taken into account. The quality of the studies will be assessed using the NIH quality assessment tool. Results 327 articles were found, 27 of which were included in the review. Pre-post studies were the most included (n = 12), conducted in Europe (n = 7) and USA (n = 6). The target population was mainly young adults and teens (n = 7). Most gamification interventions involved physical activity (n = 13), nutrition (n = 5) and smoking cessation (n = 2). Overall, the interventions proved to be all effective, but the ones about physical activity were the most useful, engaging and with longer-lasting results over time. Where satisfaction was assessed (n = 16), users gave positive feedback. Conclusions The research outcomes have shown how gamification may engage not only individuals, but masses, using game design elements in different Public Health areas. The implementation of gamification tools in PH is an innovative intervention that often uses graphic language to simplify and deliver messages to all kinds of users. Gamification is easy to use and could be a good strategy for primary prevention, to support a sustainable behavior change following the game period. More large scale controlled trials are needed in order to confirm these results. Key messages • Gamification is an important tool in public health useful for primary prevention. • The mass appeal of gamification can reach many users leading to healthier lifestyles, especially among young adults.

Exploring the innovation of visual communication design style based on artificial intelligence technology

Abstract By exploring the application of artificial intelligence technology in visual communication design, the design efficiency and innovation of visual communication can be effectively improved. In order to automatically arrange graphic language in visual communication design, a novel algorithm is proposed in this research, together with a functional model of artificial intelligence technology design. The minimum and maximum values of the number of orchestrated pages are used as the objective orchestration function for calculating the display size of buffer images in visual communication design. In visual communication design, an ant colony method is used to determine where graphics should be displayed best, and ASM semantics is used to describe the graphics language. The proposed algorithm is programmed and runs to achieve the innovation and development of visual communication design style by using the parallel selection mark to describe the graphic language and realize the automatic arrangement. The experimental results show that the visual saturation obtained based on artificial intelligence technology can reach up to 97%, the mean value of user satisfaction is 7.789, and the TGB consideration characteristics are evenly distributed. It can be seen that an innovative visual thinking mode can convey novel design concepts in visual communication design and optimize the visual communication design effect.

Land Development Planning: New Principles and New Representations in the General Urban Plan of Parma

Since the entry of Emilia-Romagna Regional Law No. 24/2017 Disciplina regionale sulla tutela e l’uso del territorio, the processes guiding the development of the territory have profoundly changed, in principle, in the structuring through processes of participation and how contents are expressed and represented. Concepts such as the containment of soil consumption as a non-renewable resource; regeneration of urbanized territories; protection and enhancement of land, including agricultural land; protection and enhancement of historical and cultural elements; and promotion of greater levels of knowledge of the territory and its existing built heritage are the main principles of the law that give foundational importance to the entire process of forming the knowledge framework and strategic lines that structure General Urban Plans, which are designed to express planning contents through an ideogrammatic type of cartography. The analysis of the law and its contents also becomes an opportunity to reflect on the tools through which the governance of the territory is implemented, from GIS to web GIS up to the changes in the graphic language through which the planning principles are expressed, with specific reference to the planning tools of Parma, on which the new General Urban Plan (PUG) is being defined.

Problemas de concentración común de soluciones y le campo conceptual multiplicativo: un análisis en los libros de texto de química

The present investigation aimed to analyze and classify problem situations of Common Concentration of Solutions present in Chemistry textbooks, according to the theory of Conceptual Fields. For the analyses, the six Chemistry works approved by the PNLD 2018 were considered and the volume of the 2nd year of each work was selected, as they include the content of Common Concentration of Solutions. The research analyses, carried out in the light of the Conceptual Fields theory, showed that situations of Common Concentration are associated with the Multiplicative Conceptual Field and are classified as Simple Proportion. It was also identified that situations may vary in subclasses: Partition, One-to-Many Multiplication, Quota and Fourth Proportional. Therefore, the results showed that the problem situations of Common Concentration of Solutions are presented in the textbooks analyzed through contexts close to the reality of the students and that mathematical notions such as multiplication, division, operations with decimal numbers, fractions, proportion, volume and conversion of measurement units, as well as different mathematical representations, such as algebraic, numerical, tabular, graphic and natural language are essential for solving Common Concentration problem situations in Chemistry.

A hybrid approach to system verification in early design for complex mechatronic systems based on formal functional semantics

Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) has been adopted as a mainstream design methodology for complex mechatronic systems. According to this paradigm, structured models, typically represented in SysML are used to describe the system of interest from various aspects. Among these models, the system behavior model is fundamental for the subsequent design and hence should be verified against system functions in the early design stage. However, due to the lack of formal semantics of the involved SysML models and software-physical hybrid characteristics of the mechatronic systems, it is not a trivial task to apply existing formal verification methods to solve this problem. In this study, a novel approach relying on hybrid functional semantics is proposed. First, this verification problem is formally defined based on an in-depth analysis of the architectures and traceability between the involved SysML models. Then, a graphical modeling language to represent the hybrid functional semantics in SysML is defined so that the function and behavior models can be enhanced and explicitly correlated by the formal semantics. Finally, based on the semantically enhanced models, the model verification problem is formally re-defined as a semantics verification problem and further divided into two sub-problems, i.e., continuous and discrete semantics verification problems, which are automatically solved by leveraging existing verification techniques including functional-effect compatibility check and symbolic model checking. A mobile robot is illustrated to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Andalusi Defensive Architecture through Martín de Ximena Jurado’s Drawings (Mid-17th Century)

The antiquarian Martín de Ximena Jurado was a pioneer in the historical cartography of the old Kingdom of Jaén (Andalusia, Spain), where he tried to represent emblematic areas with their military defences with his particular graphic language. Not surprisingly, this territory has a high concentration of medieval fortifications. The data and drawings that he made of castles, towers, and defensive enclosures show a special interest in the militarisation of sites and places. He went beyond a simple toponymic study aimed only at finding a correspondence between the ancient name and the location of a settlement based on the evidence provided by coins and inscriptions. The medieval fortifications that he mapped were not drawn in ruins as one would expect they would be in the mid-17th century, but with their most characteristic construction elements. This fact gives it great relevance, as it represents the idealised hypothesis of the state of these constructions at the time of the Castilian conquest in the decades following the Almohad debacle in the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212).

Homomorphisms and inverse homomorphisms on graph-walking automata

Graph-walking automata analyze an input graph by moving between its nodes, following the edges. This paper investigates the effect of node-replacement graph homomorphisms and inverse homomorphisms on recognizability by these automata. For deterministic graph-walking automata, it is shown that the family of graph languages they recognize is closed under inverse homomorphisms: for an n-state automaton, the inverse homomorphic images of the graphs it accepts can be recognized by an automaton with at most kn+1 states, where k is the number of labels of edge end-points in the pre-image graphs. At the same time, it is proved that in the worst case these inverse homomorphic images require a deterministic graph-walking automaton with at least kn states. The upper bound kn+1 also holds for nondeterministic graph-walking automata. The second result is that already for tree-walking automata, both deterministic and nondeterministic, the families they recognize are not closed under injective homomorphisms. Here the proof is based on a new homomorphic characterization of regular tree languages: every regular tree language is representable as h−1(g(all trees)), for some injective node-replacement homomorphisms g and h.