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Depicting emotions
How to effectively depict the appearance and impact of emotions?
This graph was made as part of my thesis. I investigated the impact of emotions in trust decisions. I like to write. In retrospect, writing was an inferior tool, because it freezes the subject into a form. After dismanteling the topic, it should be represented in a modular, screenable way. The challenge is that of enacting data. Yet, our purpose was to conform to a set of publishing standards into which we poured the topic. Adherance to the APA guide confined us to a largely textual presentation.
Given the complexity of our experimental design - a 3 (conditions) x 6 (emotion measurements per person) x 2 (decision alternatives) between-subject design, comprehending and solving the research topic was a matter of visualizing it first.
As somebody who views the Web as the best medium for conveying information, I realized how the standards of scientific publishing are disconnected from the possibilities of the Web. I found plenty of instructive aid in The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. However, it is based on the practice of turning manuscripts into journal articles printed on paper. Of all the technologies supported by the mind, and the Web (filtering, sorting, screening, layering, grouping, combining, linking and searching information) the only ones available to us were tables and figures. We produced 3 tables and 2 figures. The figure shown I built with Citrin and Photoshop, using data compiled in SPSS.
Context: Human behavior and information design.
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