Poster #23 - Putting Words to Pictures: Defining and Categorizing the Range of Static Visuals in Multimodal Research

• In Event: 64.090 - MTCC Poster Session 15
  In Poster Session: 64.090-3 - Sight, Sound, and Touch: Presentation Variations for Educational Technology

Abstract

Static visuals have acted as a consistent form of communication across cultures and time. No classification system has been devised that encompasses the many types of static visuals used in multimodal research. Undertaken in two phases, the present investigation involved a systematic review of recent research involving pairings of static visuals with connected discourse (Phase 1). The findings of that review, combined with analysis of theoretical writings, were used to construct a corpus of terms for the range of visuals encountered in research and their salient features (Phase 2). The outcomes of this research have practical and theoretical significance by offering a critical analysis of recent studies with visual-text pairing and a lexicon for static visuals that is literature-based.

Authors

• Jannah Fusenig, California State University - Chico

• Lauren M Singer Trakhman, University of Maryland - College Park

• Patricia A. Alexander, University of Maryland - College Park