talking with pictures

Talking With Pictures

A Business Idea To Create A Website Where People Can Communicate Using Pictures Instead of Words

Presented By Team PicTalk

Sometimes Language Cannot be Used to Communicate

This could be because of a number of problems including physical problems, illiteracy, not understanding each others language, etc.

Pictures Can Often Communicate Information When Words Cannot

You don’t need to understand a language or be able to read to understand what a picture represents.

Visual Languages Allow People To Communicate Without Words

We use visual languages everyday including traffic signs, logos, trademarks, warning notices, car indicators and taskbar images

A Big Limitation of Visual Languages is The Lack of a Visual Grammar

There are no rules that allow us to join pictures together so that we can create visual sentences

It is Also Very Difficult to Represent Abstract Concepts with Pictures

How can we use pictures to represent concepts like independence and existentialism or even a word like if

We Developed The Concept Of Frames To Create The Rules Of A Visual Grammar

Every picture will have a frame around it. Rules will be encoded in icons inside the frame. I am provisionally referring to them as framicons.

Different parts of speech will have different framicons

An Example of a Noun and the Rules Applied to It

A profile of a head represents a person or people. The circles framicon in the bottom of the frame represents one, few and many people. The first circle is selected to

represent one person. If the profile faces right it is I or us. If it faces left it is you or them. The silhouette above is of one person facing right so it is I or ME

An Example of a Verband the Rules Applied to It

The above picture represents running. The triangular framicon represents future and past tense. The future one is selected

meaning will run. If neither is selected it means am running. If both are highlighted it means shall have run

Example of a Complete Sentence

The above picture has the past tense triangle selected and the individual circle selected. It is facing left so the sentence reads

“You have run.”

Some Abstract Concepts are Easy to Visualise Using Pictures

Everyone recognises that a lightbulb represents an idea. However a lightbulb can also represent light as well as a physical light bulb. Because Framicons will differ by sentence part there will be different frames for each part eg. noun frames and verb frames. The frame type will give context to the picture and determine its meaning.

Abstract Concepts Can Be Represented by Non Verbal Things Like Color

Different colors represent different feelings and emotions. For example, yellow represents happiness. The above picture can be

interpreted as “I am Happy”

Some Abstract Concepts can be Represented by Association

Existentialism can be represented by a picture of Jean-Paul Sartre who proposed the concept. The difference between existentialism and Jean-Paul

himself will be determined by the frame type

Some Abstract Concepts Will Never Be Represented by Existing Pictures

We’ll have to create some new symbols to represent words like “if”

What’s Next

I strongly believe if I develop a basic system based on the ideas that I’ve discussed in this presentation that the input of multiple users will generate new concepts that I can never dream of on my own and create a visual language that will allow all netizens of the world

wide web to communicate with each other irrespective of their home language.We are building the language of the Web.

One Day Everyone on Earth Will be Able to Talk to Everyone Else

One person cannot create a global language but everyone working together can create amazing things that no individual can ever create on their own

Be Part of the Communication Revolution

If you are interested in the concepts presented in this presentation and want to know more or want to be involved in creating the

communication of the future contact us on TeamPicTalk@gmail.com