Artefacts_1-6.pdf

http://rapidshare.com/files/381952861/Artefacts_1-6.pdf

For the last artefact, I published my survey and then tried to interpret the answers given. From the first twelve questions I highlighted comments that describe emotions or characteristic features to see the creation of a character in the minds of the observers, expanding my own perception of that process. By analysing the variety of responses that have to do with living attributes I then studied them more closely so as to have the chance to see how people project their self, creating a character to which they can relate.

Using a variety of online social networks like Twitter and Facebook and many different online forums, I created posts asking people to spare some time and directing them to the survey asking them to fill in as much as they like. I also sent a series of e-mails to friends, family and classmates asking them the same. I got 200 hits on the survey website with 15% providing complete responses. I then gathered all the answers and selected those that related to living attributes for further examination and interpretation. Through research I tried to develop an idea of the process by which people create characters through the process of anthropomorphism, the tendency to interpret things from a human point of view. It was from this angle that I interpreted the survey results. I presented the results transparently on the social networking sites and my blog, allowing not only my tutors but the respondents to question and challenge my honest interpretations. The results show my rationalisations and present points of view.

Survey Results http://rapidshare.com/files/376318453/Personal_Research_Project_Survey_Results.zip

For my fifth artefact I created and published a survey to collect data and help me understand how the information that I learnt during my research are applied in the real word. The images and their relevant questions were developed during the evolution of the illustrations. The first series of questions will help me see people’s first responses and then see if any of them describe emotions. I asked if they could describe the image using only adjectives and by using one sentence. One of the questions was related to my latest artefact that was Luxor the lamp. I want to see how many of the answers would refer to the character made by Pixar and if there are any character descriptions that will attribute to the character as Luxor rather than the lamp as an object and how. Next I created multiple choice questions about the emotional state of the characters shown in the images. While making the characters I tried not to give any specific expressions to my characters. I am interested to see if the majority of the respondents will be focusing on a specific emotion and if it reflects on what I think about the character now. For the final two questions I made a grid overlaying the Images in order to offer more specific information about how the people see the images and at the same time provide me with more detailed data. The research project and the artefacts that followed are to help me understand better my research topic. My hypothesis is that adding anthropomorphic characteristics on objects and making random deformations on the characters without having in mind giving them any emotions, will still make people interpret the facial deformations as emotions.

Link to my SURVEY

http://www.eSurveysPro.com/Survey.aspx?id=2a816af2-a665-45ea-868b-eea29046d3ea