Lydia's Orientation Device: Part 2
For this part of the assignment, I decided to use stick figures to represent various emotions. So I drew various figures with different body languages. I thought the use of stick figures can easily represent a person’s emotion. Whether they be happy, relaxed, playful, angry and so on. I believe that emotion is best represented through body language, because sometimes words cannot fully express one's emotion. So the stick figures would represent these body languages and yet they are simple enough to create for a device like the palm. I thought that in terms of the colour that would be up to the users. For example, when they feel very angry, perhaps they would pick the figure that best represents that and add a vibrant red, or whatever colour they feel like using at the time.
posted by Lydia @ 8:12 AM
2 Comments:
This could be really good for triggering memory of activity, or instructions, better than emotions, as they are essentially 'action' figures or icons!
Looking at your stick figures brought to mind the work of Scott McLoud in Understanding Comics about icons, and also the ancient pictographs in Quetico Park that Ron Geyshick referred to in his stories. Pictographs are an ancient form of imagery, and are very evocative, perhaps because they don't contain a lot of detail -- Good work.
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