Thanks to Professor John Coleman, Director at Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory, he pointed me in the direction of a very interesting read on the origin of the word ‘Quiz’. And it was this that began to spark some thoughts in to how words that must have been used years ago meant something completely different to [...]
Despite having no success in getting in contact with Oxford English Dictionary themselves even after a few emails the only communication I got was on Twitter and they tweeted back (13th November 2013), “You can find more information about contributing to the OED here: oxford.ly/SEEvxn” I was keen to create a small post in this [...]
I need to make sure there is structure in this project and understanding of how words are formed. And in keeping with the collaboration aspect of this module it made sense to get in touch with professionals in the field of linguistics, philology and phonetics, so I put my focus on Oxford University with the [...]
The Question How influential is technology on the language we use in today’s society? The Context For the last year my Masters has been focused on influence and trust of the Internet and how as visual culture highlights, we can essentially influence the meaning of something by the way designers design and present it. As [...]
Following on from my post Collaboration with professional in linguistics philology and phonetics I connected with Viktor Pekar on LinkedIn, currently Research Scientist at University of Birmingham, but who in the past has been an Independent Consultant and Language Data Engineer for the Oxford University Press. He kindly agreed to work with me on this [...]
We must not forget that design on the web is to inform and communicate. With this it is the words, sounds and images used that achieve this successfully. As visual culture highlights, we can as designers essentially influence the meaning of something by the way we design and present it. Words are used to create [...]
Having investigated User Interaction within the digital world and in the real world I was keen to bring these two together in one final piece. By doing this I thought to understand how we navigate and move around a digital space I would create a virtual, and very basic 3D space to resemble that of [...]
Component 2: The Literature Review Introduction The significance of my practice is looking at how design has changed over time to share information and to understand user interaction and experience. The World Wide Web and the designers’ focus has shifted to look closely at these areas in design which are beginning to be seen as [...]
Main Aim Following on from the online user interaction experiment I was keen to switch it round to seeing how elements of the web injected in to real objects cause the user to interact and how just changing the way we know an object to work causes the user to approach and interact with it. [...]
MAIN AIM Conducting an online experiment presenting the participants with a series of images taken from every day life and the web to analyse what people are drawn to the most when given a choice. How… Using the theories drawn upon in my literature work of the areas of history of graphic design, visual culture, [...]