Communication · Executive Insight Brief · 419
Give the user more than a menu
Blissymbolics uses combinable semantic graphic elements to expand aided communication while keeping symbol-language design subordinate to the individual user’s access, learning, and interaction needs.
Premise
A communication system becomes more powerful when a user can construct new meanings instead of selecting only from a fixed menu. Blissymbolics is a semantic graphic language whose characters can stand alone or combine into larger Bliss-words. Its executive relevance lies in communication access: the design question is whether the system gives a person teachable ways to express increasingly precise relationships, actions, properties, and abstract ideas.
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What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Tool
In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.
Editorial orientation · Category
Codes & Communication Systems
Articulates signs and conventions through which information or meaning can be represented, recorded or transmitted. Interpretation depends on the relevant language, practices, users and context, not on a sign looking self-evident.
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