Re:Different languages: How cultures around the world draw s...
by Geekette on Sunday June 18, 2017 @11:36AM
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That was a great project - it showed more nuance in how people communicate. Interesting observations too; got a good laugh at the fact that oft noted doctors' ownership of most unreadable handwriting prize translates to other fields:
Some diversities are gender driven. Nearly 90% of drawings in which the chain is attached to the front wheel (or both to the front and the rear) were made by females. On the other hand, while men generally tend to place the chain correctly, they are more keen to over-complicate the frame when they realize they are not drawing it correctly. One of the most frequent issues for participants was not knowing exactly how to describe their job in short. The most unintelligible drawing has also the most unintelligible handwriting. It was made by a doctor.
Not really a surprising/revolutionary conclusion, IMHO.
As a side note, this other experiment is interesting, what happens when you are asked to draw a "common enough" (i.e. something everyone has seen and used) and simple (yet more complex than a circle) object, like a bycicle? A designer/artist asked people to draw a bycicle and then 3-d rendered the sketch, Velocipedia:
http://www.gianlucagimini.it/prototypes/velocipedia.html