Visual Language System Research Articles

Theory Research on Visual Communication Design of Urban Public Space under the Concept of Social Design

Through observation and analysis of modern urban public spaces, we can find that design is not only a combination of appearance and functionality, but also a profound understanding and response to society, culture, and the environment. The social design concept emphasizes the principle of people-oriented design, pursuing the inclusiveness, interactivity, and sustainability of public spaces, and shaping the identity and shared experience of urban spaces through visual language and symbol systems. This article will explore how to implement the concept of social design in visual communication design, and explore its impact on the quality of life, social cohesion, and urban image of urban residents. The ultimate goal is to provide practical guidance and inspiration for urban planners, designers, and decision-makers, promoting sustainable development of public spaces and social harmony.

The dialogue between languages of painting and cinema in The Age of Innocence by Martin Scorsese

After a short survey of the key theories that define the intermediality of film and the relationship between cinema and painting, the paper focuses on the case study of The Age of Innocence, a film by Martin Scorsese that exemplifies the transformations cinematic imagery may undergo under the influence of painting. Methodologically grounded in the linguistic theory of correlation between objective and subjective language systems, which cooperate in producing each utterance, the research approaches painting as a multifaceted objective language that cinema employs to reference specific worldviews or models of the world. Comprehension of the analogies between painting and film sheds light on how and why cultural patterns from other art are recreated in new media, and how the subjective language of the work of cinematic art is formed in relation to the objective languages of other visual arts. The results of the analysis reveal the film as an intertext with various genres and styles of European painting embedded into its visual language system. Specifically, the paper reveals how the Netherlands’ Golden Age portraiture, landscapes, and still-lives, together with several forms of the Impressionism and Art Nouveau styles, compose the objective language of the film. This research contributes new empirical ground to the theoretical studies of the interconnectedness of cinema and painting, providing a wider perspective on the universal language of visual art.

A fragment-based approach for computing the long-term visual evolution of historical maps

Cartography, as a strategic technology, is a historical marker. Maps are tightly connected to the cultural construction of the environment. The increasing availability of digital collections of historical map images provides an unprecedented opportunity to study large map corpora. Corpus linguistics has led to significant advances in understanding how languages change. Research on large map corpora could in turn significantly contribute to understanding cultural and historical changes. We develop a methodology for cartographic stylometry, with an approach inspired by structuralist linguistics, considering maps as visual language systems. As a case study, we focus on a corpus of 10,000 French and Swiss maps, published between 1600 and 1950. Our method is based on the fragmentation of the map image into elementary map units. A fully interpretable feature representation of these units is computed by contrasting maps from different, coherent cartographic series, based on a set of candidate visual features (texture, morphology, graphical load). The resulting representation effectively distinguishes between map series, enabling the elementary units to be grouped into types, whose distribution can be examined over 350 years. The results show that the analyzed maps underwent a steady abstraction process during the 17th and 18th centuries. The 19th century brought a lasting scission between small- and large-scale maps. Macroscopic trends are also highlighted, such as a surge in the production of fine lines, and an increase in map load, that reveal cultural fashion processes and shifts in mapping practices. This initial research demonstrates how cartographic stylometry can be used for exploratory research on visual languages and cultural evolution in large map corpora, opening an effective dialogue with the history of cartography. It also deepens the understanding of cartography by revealing macroscopic phenomena over the long term.

FlapMap Visual Language System for Vascular Imaging Prior to Microvascular Free Tissue Transfer.

Summary:Preoperative vascular imaging has been shown to be beneficial before free tissue transfer procedures, especially for deep inferior epigastric perforator flap breast reconstruction. Although computerized tomography angiography and magnetic resonance angiogram are increasingly frequently performed, there is no standardized method for recording, analyzing, and communicating the vast amount of clinically relevant information that is obtained from these tomographic imaging studies. Herein, the authors propose a new visual language system for preoperative imaging called “FlapMap,” which allows for the creation of a clinically actionable, easily understood, and easily communicated single image that aids in preoperative planning before microvascular free tissue transfer.

VISUAL NAVIGATION IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT OF THE CITY OF KHARKIV

The urban environment of many cities in Ukraine is characterized by oversaturation and unstructured information and advertising elements, as well as a lack of information and guidance tools, which leads to some discomfort in the stay of both citizens and guests of the cities of our country. The relevance of this issue encourages researchers in the field of design theory to carefully analyze the evolution of graphical navigation systems for identifying their further development. The infrastructure of public transport in Kharkiv, taking into account the growing number of routes and vehicles that provide passenger transportation, needs to develop a set of visual navigation by means of graphic design. The aim of research reveals the necessity of development the comprehensive design of visual navigation in the infrastructure of public transport in Kharkiv. The results can be used to find the optimal solutions of graphic sign systems that may become the basis of visual communications in a dynamically developing urban environment at present stage. The scientific paper describes some of the foreign projects in terms of forming a visual system for the transport infrastructure of the city. Analysis of world experience in the field of navigation systems and trends in public transport indicates the need for an integrated approach to the development of visual navigation. This is a relevant task, as there is an increase in the share of urban residents, an increase in the number of public electric transport as well as the launch of new transport routes. Based on the analysis of foreign projects «Bristol Legible City», «London Legible City» and «Bath Public Realm & Movement Strategy», aimed at solving the problem of urban visual navigation in Bristol, London and Bath, certain components are identified and characterized that can be used to develop a systematic design concept for navigation in public transport in Kharkiv. Among them are common visual language and navigation system throughout the city; taking into account the aspect of unification, which eliminates the inconsistency between the systems in the city; visual color differentiation for different modes of transport; maps of public transport with geographical reference to the area; visual association of subway maps and other types of urban electric transport. Such components are appropriate in the formation of a comprehensive design solution.

Verbal-to-visual translation based on linguistic and narratological models: a poetry-comic translation of Sappho and Phaon

Poetry comic translation typically involves a verbal poem as the source text and a verbal-visual poetry comic as the target text. This innovative type of multi-modal translation is a typical example to study inter-semiotic conversion. Although scholarly attempts have been made to create linguistic-based verbal-visual translations, there is still a gap in discussing whether visual linguistic and narratological theories can be applied to build a practical translation model. To rationalise the translation fromwords to images, it is necessary to divide the process of comic translation based on standard comic writing processes. After looking for possible analytical linguistic models accordingly and critically incorporating them, the model I propose is mainly consisted of the academic achievements of Neil Cohn, Chris Gavaler, Will Eisner, Scott McCloud, Thierry Groensteen, J. A. Bateman and J. Wildfeuer, aiming to deal with the procedures in poem-comic translation such as text segmentation, layout design, narrative perspectives, and word-image conversion. Based on theoretical discussions and a translation practise of Sappho and Phaon (Mary Robinson, 1796), it is argued that an incorporation of current comic linguistic theories is feasible to overcome the challengesbrought not solely by the discrepancies between verbal and visual language systems but also by the multi-modal nature of TT to a large extend.

Analisis Tata Ungkap Dalam Dan Luar Pada Film Animasi Pendek Death Of The Firstborn Egyptians

Visual Language is a knowledge that can be used to interpret various images those presented without text. Primadi Tabrani divides this Visual Language into 2 systems, the visual language system called NPM (Naturalist-Perspective-Momenopname) and another visual language system is STP (Space-Time-Plane). At this time which the technological progress has been developing very rapidly, we met many types of images, not just still images, but also moving images such as animated films, one of them is Death Of The Firstborn Egyptians directed by Nina Paley. This research uses qualitative method and uses the Visual Language Theory in analyzing the various visual towards the visuals of this film. The results of a visual study of this film revealed that there was a slice between Modern ‘Tata Ungkap Dalam’ and Traditional ‘Tata Ungkap Dalam’. Meanwhile, the researh found that Modern ‘Tata Ungkap Luar’ is dominantly use on the film. Thus it can be concluded that the RWD visual language system is not used to produce traditional images only, but also can be combined with NPM visual language system, those could enrich the result of finishing visual.

Prereader to beginning reader: changes induced by reading acquisition in print and speech brain networks.

Literacy acquisition is a demanding process that induces significant changes in the brain, especially in the spoken and written language networks. Nevertheless, large-scale paediatric fMRI studies are still limited. We analyzed fMRI data to show how individual differences in reading performance correlate with brain activation for speech and print in 111 children attending kindergarten or first grade and examined group differences between a matched subset of emergent-readers and prereaders. Across the entire cohort, individual differences analysis revealed that reading skill was positively correlated with the magnitude of activation difference between words and symbol strings in left superior temporal, inferior frontal and fusiform gyri. Group comparisons of the matched subset of pre- and emergent-readers showed higher activity for emergent-readers in left inferior frontal, precentral, and postcentral gyri. Individual differences in activation for natural versus vocoded speech were also positively correlated with reading skill, primarily in the left temporal cortex. However, in contrast to studies on adult illiterates, group comparisons revealed higher activity in prereaders compared to readers in the frontal lobes. Print-speech coactivation was observed only in readers and individual differences analyses revealed a positive correlation between convergence and reading skill in the left superior temporal sulcus. These results emphasise that a child's brain undergoes several modifications to both visual and oral language systems in the process of learning to read. They also suggest that print-speech convergence is a hallmark of acquiring literacy.

A visual language and interactive system for end-user development of internet of things ecosystems

This paper presents the definition of a visual language and its implementation with the design of a visual interactive system for the collaborative management of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors (e.g., wearable fitness trackers, ambient sensors, fitness apps, nutrition apps, sleep trackers) for improving people's quality of life and promoting wellness awareness. The system, called SmartFit Rule Editor, is designed to be used by coaches and trainers of non-professional teams of athletes for monitoring and analyze fitness and wellness data streams and to support them in detecting relevant events and specifying rules for actions taking. Our research is framed under the scope of computer semiotics and semiotic engineering theories. This allows us to study how to support coaches and trainers as a community of domain experts – but not IT and IoT experts – to use elements of a visual language to indirectly manage physical devices and their data streams without the need to know technical specification of the devices, the apps, and the data. We apply a socio-technical approach to design being able to study the social and the technological aspects of the use of the Internet of Things ecosystem, considering them as closely interconnected and dependent. Such an approach underpins user-centered design and development methodologies in order to design the most suitable User eXperience according to users' culture, needs, context of use, and activity.

Are Emojis Creating a New or Old Visual Language for New Generations? A Socio-semiotic Study

The increasing use of emojis, digital images that can represent a word or feeling in a text or email, and the fact that they can be strung together to create a sentence with real and full meaning raises the question of whether they are creating a new language amongst technologically savvy youth, or devaluing existing language. There is however a further depth to emoji usage as language, suggesting that they are in fact returning language to an earlier stage of human communication. Parallels between emojis and hieroglyphs and cuneiform can be seen which indicates the universality of visual communication forms, rather than written alphabetised language. There are also indications that emojis may be cultural or gender-specific with indications that women use more emojis than men to express their feelings and that age is less of an indicator of usage than technological awareness and capability. It appears that emojis are filling the need for adding non-verbal cues in in digital communication about the intent and emotion behind a message. Examinations of the way that emojis have developed and evolved and their current and forecast usage leads to the conclusion that they are not a “new” language developed by the technological adept younger generations, but instead are an evolution of older visual language systems that make use of digital technology to create greater layers and nuance in asynchronous communications. Furthermore, emojis are devices for demonstrating tone, intent and feelings that would normally be conveyed by non-verbal cues in personal communications but which cannot be achieved in digital messages. It is also evident from prior works and analyses of usage that there are universal meanings to Emojis. This suggests that as a language form, emojis may be able to contribute to increased cross-cultural communication clarity. Further research is however recognised as being necessary to fully understand the role that emojis can play as a visual language for all generations, not just those termed millennials or technologically savvy youths. Keywords: Emojis, socio-semiotic analysis, new language, old language, pictograms

MOGUL AAC : The unique way to support complex communication needs for children in Autism Spectrum

The use of AAC (Argumentative Alternative Communication) is somewhat universal for children in autism spectrum for the daily use at school and home in United States. In United States, there are many applications of AAC with different systematic approaches, while representing AAC language has been studied to find out the effectiveness of different visual language of AAC in early intervention with children with communication needs. Recently, study of Worah, McNaughton, Light & Benedek-Wood (2015) shows that “most current symbol sets have been found to be difficult for very young children to learn and use” (Light & Drager, 2002, 2007), because children use vocabularies strongly with their personal understanding of a concept and will differ from that of an adult (Light, Drager, Curran, Hayes, Kristiansen, Lewis, et al., 2005; Light & Drager, 2007). In response to such findings about current AAC visual language system in general, MOGUL AAC has been developed with careful consideration of personal choice for language selection for development. MOGUL AAC has its unique approach: the hyper-customization system, which allows children to have their own personal visual language system for their communicational needs.

MVLS를 이용한 시크릿 SMS

In this paper planed Secret Single Message Service using MVLS(Multipurpose Visual Language System) for conceal contents to other persons that based on national institutions and private organizations report. This system is not persue to important contents like national or company's secret, but merely just decode to general and conceal SMS that using peoples at real life. This system is have an advantage that encoding to message like between lover's conversations or dislike contents to view the other persons, only can see own users that is to keep private life. Also, this system offers convenience to users that using general SMS service and only activate On-Off function for secret mode to user's needs.

Network Management of Food Additives Quality Analysis and Inspection

In this paper, on the basis of the implementation of the national chemical industry standard analytical test methods and analysis of test items, a food additive quality analysis and inspection of network management applications are developed using the development technology of Visual Basic language and computer system operating environment, to achieve a network management software for users on food additives of quality analytical testing. The software sets up an information sharing network platform for enterprise and quality management departments, which is a major innovation in the food additive quality analysis on test management methods and tools. 1. Significance of the Research  In today's social development, the computer has brought great convenience and efficiency to people's work and life. Information technology, network technology has become the important choice of cost savings, increase efficiency (1). If traditional methods are used to complete analysis of current data processing and inspection reports analyzing in food additive quality inspection with inconvenience on experiment inspectors and managers, which not only result in data no registration and data loss, but also inefficient and careless management flaws. Therefore, in order to meet the chemical manufacturers of food additives quality analysis of network management needs tests, the development of food additive quality of the results of calculation test, data processing, product specifications automatic evaluation and preservation of computer print management software are significant (2). 2. Purpose of the Research

음성인식시스템과 다목적 시각 언어를 연동한 실시간 쇼핑 시스템

본 논문에서는 다목적 시각 언어 시스템(MVLS, Multipurpose Visual Language System)에 음성인식 리모컨을 연동한 실시간 쇼핑 시스템을 설계하였다. 이 시스템은 기존의 일반적인 온라인 및 오프라인 쇼핑 시스템을 그대로 이용하면서, 사용자가 원하는 편리한 방법으로 추가 시킨 MVLS 데이터를 이용함으로써, 전체 쇼핑 시스템의 구조를 큰 변화 없이 활용할 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있다. 또한, 사용자 관점에서는, 국가기관 및 민간단체의 각종 보고서와 시장동향을 토대로 조사한 방법에 의해, 키보드나 마우스 등 상대적으로 사용하기 어려운 매체가 아닌, 음성인식 리모컨 또는 스마트폰을 활용하여 원하는 상품을 구매할 수 있다는 장점도 가지고 있다. 이는 특히, IT 매체 소외 계층으로 볼 수 있는, 노약자나 장애우 등도 쉽고 편리하게 원하는 제품을 구매할 수 있는 특징을 포함하고 있다. 또한, 쇼핑몰이나 판매자 입장에서도 구매자의 쇼핑 정보의 수집을 보다 쉽고 빠르며 효율적으로 수집할 수 있어서, 차후 판매 전략을 수립하는데 큰 도움이 될 수 있다. In this paper planed Real-time Shopping System using Multipurpose Visual Language System(MVLS) with voice recognition remote controller. This system has a merit that using existing on-line & off-line shopping system with addition MVLS data. This can realization little modification existing shopping system. Also, customer's a point of view that has a merit to using easy device for shopping. That is no more using difficult device like that keyboard or mouse, and approach to easy device that voice recognition remote controller or smart phone. Especially, aspect of the old and the infirm and disabled persons that information minority group, can easy buy the product using this system. And, the sellers can more easily collection customer's data and using that future sales strategy.

The Pattern Based Visual Property Specification Language and Supporting System for Software Verifications

This paper deals with issue of properties specification for software verifications and translation between formal languages. Through this paper, the unique framework of property specifications including most kinds of formal specifications logics, automatic methods are shown by a property specifications guided system and PVSL(The Pattern based Visual property Specification Language).Additionally, a properties to specify and structures, Interconnection of them are also described by property charts. In this study, the pattern based visual property specification language (PVSL) is defined and property specifications method is also designed by convenience specifications of required property.Required properties can be described by its charts and analyzes its meaning and structures as using patterns diagrams and property and-or tree. On the other hands, it also guarantees stability and limitation of utilizations of patterns using much stronger specifying Dwyer`s meaning based property classification. The PVSL and property charts use hierarchical state machine notation to take advantage of knowledge a person who is one of practitioners has as much as possible, and for Nu-SMV, CW-CNC. They can be adapted to describe property charts and analyze into examples of CTL(Computation Tree Logic) and Modal Mu-Calculus logic that have been already used.Keywords: Patterns, Property specifications, model checking, Software verification

‘Bahasa Rupa’ dalam Komik Perempuan Indonesia Tahun 2000 – 2010

ABSTRACT Indonesia’s girls’ comics introduced in early 2000, mainly developed by girl comic artists, in- tended for girls readers and heavily emphasized girls’ romance as story theme. Girls’ comic is one of pop culture media that creates a unique visual language system through construction of its visual storytelling structure. This is an explanatory research that applies visual storytelling structure anal- ysis in order to depict its visual narrative elements and structure in girls’ comics. This research will extract the uniqueness of girls’ comics’ visual storytelling structure and visual language system. As the result, girls’ comics are amplification of characters, emotional visual backgrounds, and emotional transition which marked by establishing shots as sequence margin in its visual storytelling structure and visual language system. Keywords: girls’ comics, structure analysis, visual storytelling, visual language.

Mapping the Matrix: Using Compendium as a Tool for Recording the Analytic Group

This article describes the application of Compendium, a knowledge cartography software tool, for the recording of group process. As a hypertext tool, it enables analysts to visualize connections between people, ideas and information, establishing an evidence base within and across contexts (such as group sessions). After customizing its visual language, templates and keyword system, it has been piloted as a research tool for the measurement of group process. This would appear to hold the promise of providing a ‘digital substrate’ for recording, discussing and analysing long term group dynamics in new ways. While the project is in its early stages, early indications are that it is a useful tool, which can highlight group process and record change over time. In the longer term, it seems plausible that group processes such as multiple mirroring and identification, and such complex structures as the matrix, could be made visible and researchable through this methodology.

Designing for healthy living: Supporting reflectivity on interactions in healthcare

The design of an efficient and effective healthcare services is part of the design for healthy living. Contemporary models of health rely on a deeper involvement of the patient in the decision-making through the steps of the health journey. In these methods, the quality of practitioner–patient interaction is central to the successful processes and patient participation. The quality of these interactions and the ability of both medical practitioners and patients to reflect on each session is part of the design strategies for healthy living. Interactions rely on extensive, effective and empowering communication between practitioner and patient. The purpose of this work is to address the recognition of this importance, evidenced from the broad and diverse communication training for practitioners, by enabling the capture of information about the quality of these interactions. Captured information has to be encoded in a way that enables computer reasoning with it, as well as delivered to patients and practitioners in ways that allow quick interpretation from respective sides. We present the mechanics of the development of a visual language and analysis system enabling visual reasoning about the quality of interactions. The visual knowledge representation is designed based on aspects of human movement. Such design is justified from the fact that human possess implicit knowledge about human movement. The paper presents KIA (Kinetic Inter-Acting) encoding system that is the foundation of the visual language and respective visual analysis method. KIA enables both humans and machines to utilise information about how interactions unfold, which is necessary for practitioner–patient interaction. The paper concludes with discussion of KIA approach and technology in terms of the implications for designing for healthy living.

Auditory Remediation for Patients With Landau-Kleffner Syndrome

Auditory Remediation for Patients With Landau-Kleffner Syndrome

Visual language system for representing medical concepts

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