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