Universal Translator

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Can you picture it! Well google are probably well on their way developing it, but I want to share more doodles and ideas on this blog more.



Won't it be brilliant to use this as an app on your phone, or automatically detect a langauge from a sender then automatically translate it to the language you understand in their reciever. It cant be far away from development.

There is voice to text search app from google on my android htc, i'm sure there is text to voice that I hear students playing with on the mac with it. I can appreciate it probably takes a lot of servers to manage with the global population wanting to converse and communicate in their own lanaguage to other businessmen.

If you take the shannon and weaver communication model diagram of 1949 was... the noise in the middle would be the server translating and detecting idioms (uk an example would be: dog and bone, or up north: put wood in 'oil) and dialects.

Example:

English Voice to English text - server translate text (like at this site on toolbar) - Japanese Text to Japanese Voice

I admit the text to voice convertor might be limited in its translation of tone of the message from intonation of speech and inflection that comes from the rubato of spoken word. Maybe in time it can measure the pace, the raise in volume, the length of pauses, irony, but for now the nearest we can get to word for word meaning would be excellent.

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Published on 2010/10/14 1:26 pm.
Filed under: 3g, collaborative, communication, computer mediated, generator, global, gps, gsm, interactive, language, meaning, mobile, narrative, sound, voice

Language and Visual Communication

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I think this was a good discussion talking about language and communicating without phonetics touching on quite a few forms of language and creativity. This was my thoughts below to this question.

Is it possible real ideographic way of communicate ideas? that is think, communicate and learn without phonetic chains? New era challenge require a more rapid and easy way of thinking.



My thoughts, love the discussion: http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=1782421&type=member&item=10926482

Susan Kare designed the trash can, apologies not checking who, someone mentioned basing language on gesture and I like the term grant put iconic physiology I think it was, still needs to be learned like phonetics. but she made the smiling face on load up of the Mac in 84'



When I was reading, I came across that language needed to search for the strongest metaphor (object) to relate meaning like an ideogram (pg 28-29 in my writings link below). But someone said they try to unlearn what they know and think of objects without words, I try it too. led me into representing objects through shapes, silhouettes. I also liked the story that a guy shuts his eyes, similar to Claude Heath and tries to draw the world, like Betty Edwards I think it was, drawing on the left side. altering our perception, being creative, looking at line drawings upside down for the first time you see it challenges you to work out what it is, you just copy it. not sure how the advance to not using phonetics. unlearning advances the creativity and ultimately the imagining of new ways I guess.

Logos do it, icons for blogger, wordpress (ok still letters), delicious, squidoo, digg (the people) these are universal, they're most widely seen (internet).

Brands do it, coca cola (letters I know).

I'm sure its got to involve more senses other than sight to be more widely applicable without phonetics. brail and tactility, still represent a letter in the alphabet though I think. But I like that the grid comes into it, all characters equal in size, maybe not area but equal height and relative width.



Similar to time dimension brought into sound with Morse code again representing letters. they look good graphically, cant remember the artist-designer



Still, a group of people would need to agree to discerned representations, otherwise how can they communicate complex thought like we're doing here? http://www.visualisationmagazine.com/dissertation.htm pg 28-29 about. Please share you thoughts, links.
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Published on 2010/09/11 10:40 pm.
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Shape My Language

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Love this! Every student, designer, person has to have the ability to immerse themselves in type physically rather than just mentally. .

. I feel sorry for the characters at the top of these 26 strings with over 4,000 floating letters. Please, please say you can buy this as blinds in your window. Would be very much frowned upon by my partner but she can lump it, how cool! Bring it to the UK, fonts definitely Shape our western Langauge, but this would shape our experience of it. . . www.daltonmaag.com . 05.03. – 12.06.2010 Thankyou Bruno . http://www.walking-chair.com/ . found in creative review april 2010, btw... I dont like the 3d, sans serif, drop caps. But the grey is good, the Caslon revamp and the general overall redesign, 1 thumb up ;o).

Published on 2010/03/30 11:29 pm.
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Journal of IA

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The Journal of Information Architecture is an international peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Its aim is to facilitate the systematic development of the scientific body of knowledge in the field of information architecture. http://journalofia.org/

The Journal of Information Architecture is published biannually in English and Volume 1, Issue 1 is the current issue. Read more about the Journal » The Call for Papers for Volume 1, Issue 2, to be published Autumn 2009, is now open. Read the Call for Papers »


Here are the papers in Vol1.


Dorte Madsen's Editorial

Shall We Dance?


“ But where is the research in information architecture? (...) You may come across
research involving information architecture or relevant for information
architecture, but not necessarily written with a specific purpose of developing
the field of information architecture, of adding to the body of knowledge about
information architecture, developing concepts for information architecture, nor
in general addressing the theoretical foundations of information architecture.
Now, with a Journal of Information Architecture, we have a forum where we can
publish what is central to the development of the field of information
architecture. ”


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Gianluca Brugnoli


Connecting the Dots of User
Experience


The article presents a point of view about analyzing and designing the user experience within
pervasive networks made of distributed services and applications, where the user is the primary actor who freely and opportunistically connects and activates the system components following an activity-driven process. A digital content case study is used to outline the main characteristics of this scenario and to introduce a tool for user experience modelling and designing. From the
application of this model are proposed some considerations about how the design process could change to support this vision.


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Helena Francke


Towards an Architectural Document
Analysis


Information architecture (IA) and document architecture (DA) provide two, partly overlapping, perspectives on the creation of document structures. This article suggests how the architecture of a document can be analysed from these two perspectives. Literature on IA and DA has been examined in order to identify central ideas that are of relevance for analysing the architectures of digital documents. The article contains an overview of how IA and DA have been used and
defined. The article shows how a model for analysing documents as sociotechnical artefacts can fruitfully draw on parts of the theoretical and practical complexes of IA and DA. The aspects that are identified as particularly important from IA are organisation systems, navigation, and labelling. From DA, logical structures, layout structures, content structures, and file structures
are all applicable aspects. It is discussed how these various aspects may be interpreted in order to support an analysis of the organising principles of documents.


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Andrew Hinton


The Machineries of Context


The essay re-frames Information Architecture as designing context in the digital layer, contending that IA has always been less about organizing information than about designing architecture for a new kind of contextual space. It explores how a global network of user-created hyperlinks has changed how we experience context, and how IA practice emerged to contend with this change. In addition, the essay proposes that IA study and practice develop tools and methods that improve our understanding and methods for solving the increasingly complex design challenges brought about by this new contextual reality.


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James Kalbach


On Uncertainty in Information
Architecture


Uncertainty, in general, is a fundamental aspect of human activity and underlies much of our
decision making. The notion of uncertainty in information seeking, in particular, dates back to Shannon and Weaver (1949) and since then has been investigated in many forms. Kulthau's (1993) work on information uncertainty is perhaps the most extensive. Through two specific examples, this article proposes uncertainty as a unifying heuristic in information architecture. Measurements of uncertainty can serve a diagnostic function in both the design and evaluation of information technologies and user interfaces.


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Published on 2009/05/07 8:01 pm.
Filed under: architecture, editorial, education, information, language, praxis, research, technology

Aesthetics & Computation Group

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instantiating
computation : tom white

exploring visual representations of different models of computation that
lend themselves to direct manipulation in order to better understand and
construct information spaces


codefocus
: jared schiffman

reeavaluating the process of writing programs and the visual environment
in which this activity takes place. to make writing and reading code
more inuitive through an enhanced visual infrastructure



anemone
(live version) : ben fry

using the process of organic information design to visualize the
changing structure of a web site, juxtaposed with usage information



genomic
cartography : ben fry

a series of experiments combining visualization and genomics.
expressing qualitative features of the human genome through advanced
visual representations.

These are some of the projects that I will certainly try to have a deeper
reader about from the aesthetics and computation group featuring john maeda and
ben fry. I was aware of the project below as most people are,




processing :
ben fry and casey reas

processing is an environment for learning the fundamentals of computer
programming within the context of the electronic arts. it is an electronic
sketchbook for developing ideas. processing is an open project initiated
by ben fry and casey reas, of the interaction design institute ivrea.

A very good group that i will certainly follow to keep
up-to-date as they try to explore language, mapping (space), communication.
Truly creative projects that I must have a good read, may just have to blog
individually upon further inspection. I found this group through http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/serialconsign/~3/PKLFOJPUrDM/information-visualization-and-interface-culture with a review of a chapter written by greg smith for Handbook of Research on Computational Arts and Creative Informatics which will be released
sometime in the next several weeks.

Published on 2009/04/25 9:17 pm.
Filed under: cartography, coding, communication, creative, data, design, education, interpret, language, pattern, visual thinking, visualisation, writing

Mapping Knowledge

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A new map of knowledge based on electronic data searches in which users moved
from one journal to another, thus establishing associations between them.


A new map of knowledge has been assembled by scientists at the research
library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. It is based on electronic data searches in which
users moved from one journal to another, thus establishing associations between them.


The map includes both the sciences and the humanities in a hub and wheel
arrangement, with the humanities at the center and the sciences arrayed around
them. The arrangement fell out naturally from the data and is not contrived,
said Johan Bollen, the leader of the research team.


In the map, published in the current issue of PLoS One, it has some great clustering and is excellant to realise through distance and colour their revelance to each other. The journals are color-coded as follows: physics, light purple; chemistry, blue; biology, green; medicine, red; social sciences, yellow; humanities, white; mathematics, purple; and engineering, pink. The interconnecting lines reflect the probability that a reader will click from one journal to another on the computer screen.

Similar maps have long been constructed on the basis of footnotes in one journal’s articles that refer to articles in other journals. Dr. Bollen believes that his electronic click map better represents scholars’ behavior than does citation analysis, as the footnote method is called.


from: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/science/16visuals.html?_r=2


found here: http://www.twine.com/item/123nz0p3g-ry/visual-science-map-of-knowledge-nytimes-com

Published on 2009/03/21 2:37 am.
Filed under: colour, constellations, knowledge, landmarks, landscapes, language, links, mapping, multidirectional, research, visual maps

Cartographic Shapes

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this is a great application for facebookm, called Geo Challenge. helps you learn your countries/geography starting off with just the shape and fading in the ajoining/nearby countries to help you realise the paticularly country. they have a round for flags, and cities (usually guessing myself) placing where they are on the world map.

great game and great tool for learning. it helps me with my pathetic knowledge of world geography/cities, although i'm not that bad at flags.


also look at this noisy britain - ben terret excellant post by strange maps.

Published on 2008/11/24 12:40 am.
Filed under: carto, cartogram, cartography, country, flag, form, geography, global, graphic, knowledge, language, locations, map, perception, shape, territory, world

Literature Visualisations

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These are some great literature / text visualisations that I have found. From madonna, tom sharpe, da vinci (dan brown), royal society archive, universal declaration of human rights & a german poem.

Literature map lets you input your fave author and watch it display (limited aesthetically) other authors you are probably aware of but probably some your not. Great tool.

The poetry by boris is still equally intersesting and aesthetically plaeasing as his 05 version, visual e quite rightly point out it is a little more accessible (function) than before.

Chris weaver's projects are triumph's for accessibility with his elements visualisation I am certain would benefit anyone to learn, use, develop from, great tool.

Chris harrison's visualising the royal society might not be too accessible but i think function's to some extent. again like many troublesome issues with visualising, the works tend to need a degree of zoomability, 'scaling well as the data size gets very large' (visualizaton goals & features).

visual poetry 08 by Friederike Lambers,Boris Müller, Florian Pfeffer

previous post: Visual Poetry 05

found here: visual e (very well analysed)



da vinci by chris weaver

other works elements / cinegraph (infovis 07 contestant)

found here: google groups - carto-infos


(note, just a part of the visualisation)

Visualizing the Royal Society Archive by chris harrison

found here: design label



Like a Prayer/Madonna - The Shape of Song by Martin Wattenberg

ok, not literature but still a text visualiser


other literature text visualisers: Alice in Wonderland by Text Arc (previous post)


textual visualiser news search by Brendan Dawes
A news search engine visualiser at http://www.doodlebuzz.com/
found here: google group - carto-infos




tom sharpe by literature map

Great literature visualisation tool http://www.literature-map.com/
found here: actpubliclibrary.blogspot.com



universal declaration of human rights visualised


featured here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/video/video/show?id=2168552%3AVideo%3A2502


found here: infosthetics



Pulp fiction dialogue visualised


featured here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/video/video/show?id=2168552%3AVideo%3A559


found here: motionographermedia


previous post type visualisation: Typographic City - The Child

Published on 2008/10/20 9:14 pm.
Filed under: aesthetic, clean, communication, design, function, information, language, literature, mapping, motion, non linear, text, typographic, visual maps, visual thinking, visualisation, words

Languages Visual

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Where did your spoken langauge descend from? Well english came from the germanic group dark blue. A great visualisation of the origins of european languages.

The proto Indo European language is placed at the centre (4000 BCE) and present day Indo European languages on the outside edge of the circle(2000 CE).

The inner space is also divided into rings representing different millennia, where the most significant ancestral languages from which contemporary Indo European languages are descended are placed. Proto Indo European divided into various groups, which then subdividedand evolved independently, giving rise to today's different Indo European languages. That is why the circle is divided into different sections, each of a different colour. Each section corresponds to one of the subdivisions of the family of Indo European languages. Thus, the:


dark blue section represents the Germanic group;


green, the Celtic one;


yellow, the Romance languages;


pink, the Greek group;


brown, the Balkan group;


orange, the Anatoliangroup;


red, the IndoIraniangroup;


purple, the Tocharian group;


sky blue,the Slavic group; and


turquoise, the Baltic group.


found here: http://medialab-prado.es/article/investigacion_para_la_visualizacion_experimental_interactiva_de_conocimientos_etimologicos

Published on 2008/10/16 7:13 pm.
Filed under: colour, geographic, language, mapping, meaning, multidirectional, visualisation, writing

Imagine Visual Thinking

Beautiful graphics, dooodles, animation visually interpreting the spoken narrative language of John Lennon.

38 years ago, Jerry Levitan, who was then only 14 years, managed to interview John Lennon, during his stay in Montreal. Starting recordings of the interview, filmmaker Josh Raskin has created an animation that reproduces, word for word, visual language, the arguments of John Lennon.

'A small gem that reminds me of the thematic map in motion' by Philippe David Boukobza.

It has nice literal interpretation of johns dialgoue. Lovely layered effects with varying zoom perspectives.

I am curious about a graphic of we all have hitler inside and we all have christ inside when referring to violence.

Also love the graphic of sounds/music literally within inside countries and beautiful organic changing from each individual world shape.

I agree philippe, fantastic gem from josh raskin and co.

blogged here: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heuristiquement.com%2F2008%2F08%2Fimagine.html&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=fr&tl=en

Published on 2008/08/31 7:55 pm.
Filed under: abstract, aesthetic, animation, art, clean, colour, communication, complex, composition, creative, graphic, language, perspectives, shape, sublime, visual thinking, words