DESIGN SYSTEM AND SERVICES

TASK 1

DESIGN SYSTEM AND SERVICES

From this task we need to find the weakness or gap in system that we choose, so that we can amends or create new system from this weakness.

I choose emoticons or emoji. Why? Even though emoticons is a common system that everyone has already use to show their inner emotions and to communicate with people without talking to each other but there are still weakness in the systems where emoticon can be difficult to to interprets and they sometimes could be misunderstanding between users. My focus is in Sarawak.

Emoticons make us better communications. Human are nothing if not social. So much so that we experience significant physical and psychological problems without social interactions. Krystal D'costa of Scientific American says: " As social beings we require consistent and frequent of confirmation of our social placement. This confirmation is vital to the preservations of our network-we need to able gauge the state of our relationship with other."

Another research is made by researchers at Tokyo Denki University, Japan founds that the more graphic the emoticon, the more our brain responds to it. As the emoticon becomes less abstract(or more human like) the brain responds accordingly.

Picture 1: Effect of using graphic emoticons in human brains by researchers at Tokyo Denki University. Taken at: https://dq9ucdqjq6nrk.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Yausa.jpg.

More graphics is the emoticon cause our brain to activate the temporal gyrus which is responsible for recalling biological motions. Humans understands emoticons to be emotional communications, which results of the activation of the right frontal gyrus as seen above.

There another weakness also in this system where elder couldn't communicate with the youngster because in Sarawak most elder couldn't read and with the advance technology that happen in our world they will be left out without modernization. Using emoticon would help them to communicate with the younger generation using symbol because it using images.

My ideas is to create a new emoji using Iban language and Iban motif because it is my language and I want to create something that help my ethnics to communicate with each other more and others races also can learn different language using this emoji.

 Picture 2: Iban motif of frog