| tactuaL [si:gak] series _ empirical communication design of visual information focused on haptic interface using braille generating method |
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since _ march, 2006 - still go on main author _ Haemin Kim type _ Interactive art object medium _ Mixed Media Installation area _ design + craft + computer science special thanks to_ all the co-author & contributors |
| tactuaLife | abstract | |
| tactuaL [si:gak] series is continuous project presenting a communicational method for the visually handicapped to the non-handicapped using physical computing. |
Societies are changing rapidly by the advent of new digital techniques and network communications. Large quantities of information spread to people in broad areas at the same time and the world synchronizes as one great nation. Language is one of the major examples of communication for human beings. Communication media through language activity basedupon visual information changes constantly and develops into various forms. Nowadays, the new media that utilizes interactivity is a combination of digital technique and art. It brings the expandability of various types between human and visual communication media. This is an influential factor to the change of the living environment paradigm. Most of the current studies focus only on brand-new technoetic amusements. However, the essential role of visual communication design in this period is not limited to the area of styling, but extends to transforming human communication methods as a pioneer of culture. This study which is titled “tactuaL [si:gak] series : Empirical Communication Design of Visual Information” proposes the new media installation artworks for multi-sensory communication of visual information from an artistic viewpoint of computation graphic design in the social context. It aims to raise the understanding of the visually disabled people who have never experienced these conditions through experiencing the touching of the tactile dots of the installation. “tactuaL [si:gak] series” is presenting an approach through the view-point of this generation’s visually disabled, and their perception of the world. Spectators had a chance to experience their situation in a new type of multi-sensory communicational method. The significance of this study was to give an impulse to people to having public awareness of the disposed classes in formative ways in the design area. This study was inspired by the issue of finding the meaning of true extension of the human senses in the area of New Media Art called grafting which is the area somewhere between design, art and science. Exploring ways toward finding a new type of communicational method in the visual communication area is significant in this study. This will show one of possibilities that expand the work area for future visual communication designers. |
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| This study focuses on how to read textual expressions by using tactual & visual senses. Each installation works by an input signal from a touch sensor. Spectators can see texts and pictures, and hear the sounds by tactual input behavior. | ||
| Through this interactive process,
we can understand how the blind may feel. >>> back to main >>> press release |
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