In this paper we adopt Charles Sanders Peirce’s concept of iconicity to analyse pictural communication. While visual semiotics has a well-developed structural school, the concepts stemming from pragmatic sign theory are often overlooked. The specific purpose study is explore signs, exemplified by two prominent pictures former US President Donald Trump. We argue that semiotic framework for in si...

background: communication is the key role in the nursing profession. nurse-patient communication is highly important especially when the patient is a child. studies indicate inappropriate contact with children in the pediatric wards. this study investigated effect of training on communication skills of nurse with child through small group discussion. methods: this study is a clinical trial with...

This paper describes a web-based interactive visual component for supporting online collaborative business process management. This component supports not only the outputs of visual information but also the input of visual information interactively. Most of traditional web-based visualizations are only used for viewing information and they are not interactive. Theyfocused on how rich graphics c...

Graphic designers have excelled at conveying visual messages for decades. We take their work for granted: the back of a Wheaties box, an informative poster, a newspaper front page (Fig. 1), slides and web pages. One of graphic design’s primary goals is to create a “visual hierarchy” that gives structure to text and imagery, and improves viewer understanding. However, while graphic design method...

This paper 1) provides reasons why graphics should be effective aids to communicate risk; 2) reviews the use of visuals, especially graphical displays, to communicate risk; 3) discusses issues to consider when designing graphs to communicate risk; and 4) provides suggestions for future research. Key articles and materials were obtained from MEDLINE(R) and PsychInfo(R) databases, from reference ...

As an organized subarea of academic communication scholarship, the study of visual communication is relatively new. For instance, at this writing, visual communication has not yet attained regular division status in either the International Communication Association or the National Communication Association. However, interest in visual issues appears to be growing among communication scholars, ...