Investigating the impact of emotive translation bubbles on communication in K-pop fan interactions with artists, addressing language and cultural barriers to enhance emotional expression visually. Our work was presented at the Graphics Interface Conference (2023) in Victoria, BC.
How can we enhance cross-cultural emotional communication through visual design elements in social media interactions?
Development of emotive translation bubbles that combine linguistic and visual elements to convey emotional context across language barriers.
We designed and developed a prototype of emotive translation bubbles that combine linguistic and visual elements to convey emotional context across language barriers.
These prototypes included the following:
We implemented the final design of emotive translation bubbles that was used in the study session.
We conducted a study session with 5 participants to test the effectiveness of the emotive translation bubbles.
Take a look at our results below!