Back to the Future with Icons and Images: “Low-Tech” to Communicate and Protect Privacy and Data

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Back to the Future with Icons and Images: “Low-Tech” to Communicate and Protect Privacy and Data

Botes Wilhelmina Maria, Arianna Rossi
Abstract:
Since the myth of the tower of Babel, humankind has been concerned with the impossibility of communicating across cultures, societies, and literacy levels. Although multilingualism can solve some of these challenges, pic- tograms and images carry even more potential of easily crossing cultural barriers. This is why traffic worldwide is governed by a set of symbols that uses minimal lettering to be culturally neutral and avoid misunderstand- ings on the road that could be fatal.1 Similar wayfinding systems were cre- ated for the Olympic games in the Seventies and have then spread to be internationally adopted in airports and similar facilities where travellers of different origins need to move around effortlessly and rapidly. 2
Authors:
Botes Wilhelmina Maria, Arianna Rossi
Publication date:
2021, Ledi Publishing
Published in:
Ledi Publishing
Reference:
Botes Wilhelmina Maria, Arianna Rossi, Back to the Future with Icons and Images: "Low-Tech" to Communicate and Protect Privacy and Data

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