This is highly culture-specific. Many in our target audience will not recognize a shopping cart or a carrot, or particular styles of clothing. Hamburgers may be offensive in India, or even to some in France.
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> wrote: > This project is in many ways complementary to Sugar: > > http://www.pangaean.org > > I'd like to know what people think about it. The software appears to be > Windows based, but perhaps it's built with portable technologies. > > If not, we might want to pick up the basic idea of communicating through > pictons. In the resources section, there are several academic papers on > this research. As long as we understand that the meaning of pictures and icons is not and cannot be natural/intuitive/inherent, we can explore many possibilities. For example, we are still stuck with a floppy disk icon for the 'Save' command. > -- > // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ > \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
