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Fontpark

Combining the 2 tests

After reviewing the two experiments I did, I thought about combining them. I put together the two experiments (word association poster and imagery association poster) to create a new one: using text to make imagery in response to the text.

Participants are asked to use the letters from a piece of text to make imagery in response to it, then write a piece of text related to the image for the next person.

Here a dog is drawn using letters a, g, l, o from 'a little dog' and 'big white bone' is written for the next person. Then someone else created a bone image using letters o and i, then wrote 'skull', and so on...

So, what ended up is a link of image and text / a link of people's interpretations / a link of responses.

However I'm not sure how the sentence should be made, i.e. according to what? simply something related to the image? that is not enough. it is too random somehow.

What is the starting text? anything? or something related to association?

The 'making imagery out of text' idea is inspired by Fontpark, a tool for people to make image out of Japanese characters, people can use whatever letters they like. I used it to demonstrate my idea, using the letters from the sentence 'a little doggy' to create a dog.

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Organizing thoughts

thinking in progress

Sharing of experience

Ever wanted to invite someone to an exhibition but he/she is not free to go or not in the country where it is held? What if we could share our eyes with them while we are looking at the exhibits.

0.5, not 0 or 1

Sometimes it is the link that makes things fascinating, instead of the beginning or the end.

People like to share different things on the web; videos on youtube; photos on flickr; personal updates on twitter. But they only facilitate the sharing of outcomes, results of certain experiences. How about sharing the process—the link between the beginning and the end?

I'm planning to create a web platform that allows people to share their link of thoughts. It's about sharing of view, observation, interpretation, and association. We may have built up a certain way of thinking and seeing, what if we could see how others see the world?

Seeing from the eyes of another person. o_o *_* @_@

Juice

I bought orange juice, pineapple juice and grapefruit juice from sainsbury.

Whats next?

Experiment: Made a poster that invites different people to put a word next to the last word written by another person, each word is the result (one's own interpretation or association) of the previous one, a link between two words is formed. A chain of links is then formed by the collective association of two (different) words. Same experiment was carried out at the same time using drawing instead.

Potential problem: The previous words on the chain are visible. This might cause an effect on the result; people may tend to write something new / try to be creative / try to avoid going backwards or repeating. One of the many reasons of such effect is people tend to see the link as a vector, which might be misled by the > symbols between each blank, they were made for indicating the order of the blanks. A control experiment is needed—only the last word is made visible.

Findings: The writing and drawing versions have different beginnings, an apple and a picture of a snake respectively. I intentionally used these two biblical subject as the beginnings. Interestingly the first and second participants tend to have made this same association as they are asked to write and draw in the two posters accordingly. Their link on each poster is probably a sub-link evolved from the primary link they made when seeing the two posters—apple and snake.

To further analyze results, I proposed a naming system for this experiment:

Units(words) in order on the written poster: A, B, C, D, E...

Units(images) in order on the drawing poster: a, b, c, d, e...

Participants in order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...

So 'apple' is A, 'snake' is a. And the fourth participant(4) who wrote the fifth word(E) formed the link DE4 between D and E.

In the case of 1:

Assume a link between A and a was formed before any other links appear, 1 formed Aa1. After the formation of Aa1(cross-poster), second link AB1(within word poster) is formed, then the third link ab1(within image poster).

In one of the situations, the process of forming AB1 is influenced by Aa1 because the existence of Aa1 gave a new interpretation of the meanings of A and a. Theoretically AB1 is a sub-link or byproduct evolved from Aa1. To represent such situation, AB1 is re-named as AB1(Aa1). That explains the formation of AB1 under the circumstances of being influenced by Aa1, the first link. The influential subject is labeled in brackets(). According to the same situation, ab1(AB1(Aa1)) is formed instead of ab1.

AB1 can refer to the position of that specific link on the poster.

AB1(Aa1) can refer to the nature of the link AB1.

However, there are other situations. e.g. AB1 can still be written as AB1 to describe its nature when the formation of AB1 is free from the influence of Aa1 or other subjects. There might be EF5(AB1)(CD3), where the link EF5 is formed under the influence of two of the previous links.

How many links are there between A and C? Is it like A–B–C? or A–B–X–Y–C?

A link is the result and also the cause of a subject–subject relation. This is an investigation about link–link relation, It is about the link between links.

as book title:

Rebecca suggested me to read, wonder what it's about.

Association of Ideas

One idea was thought to follow another in consciousness if it were associated by some principle. The three most commonly asserted principles of association were similarity, contiguity, and contrast