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A Visual Language for Children's Multilingual Communication in the Internet
Three Current Projects
An Educational Software Philosophy
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Outline
Motivaton and Previous Work
Motivation
Early work in the field...
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Historical Development
Example VLs for Interpersonal Communication
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Bliss Symbols
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When should we use the visual language?
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Bliss symbols are used by paraplegics around the world to communicate by pointing. Blissymbolics Communication International is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
Elephant Memory
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Bliss symbols and Elephant Memory rely on underlying natural languages for their semantics.
VLs for H-H communication can have concrete semantics using microworlds...
Visual Languages for Animation
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Augmentative Visual Languages
Microsoft Chat
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Augmentative languages still depend upon natural languages for most of the message
Vedo-Vedi -- A Web-based Visual Language for Human-to-Human Communication
What’s needed? Computation
Demonstration
Designing the Representations
Postcard Ontology
How should the objects be represented on the screen?
Iconic Pronouns
Which of the following icons would you choose for the pronoun “I” in your message to a friend?
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Modley’s Warning
Does the Precise Representation Really Matter?
Learnability
Iconic/Symbolic Continuum
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Other Design Assumptions
Electronic delivery: What’s the best way?
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Open problems...
Technical Research Issues
Tech. Research Issues (Cont)
HCI Research Questions
HCI Research Questions (Cont)
How can we design computer-based communication systems to lead to broader learning?
Summary
Acknowledgements
Current Status
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