Visualising Emotion: Enhancing the Typographic Description of Prosody in Written Discourse Through Dynamic Typography

Giles Rollestone
2019 Zenodo  
Uttering spoken words does not mean forever losing its attending emotions. In written discourse of speech the problem is not resolved, just expanded. Our speech is charged with meaning, interpretations, emphasis and feelings. These aspects are often lost when speech is represented as text. Despite decades of technological advances in speech and emotion recognition this barrier remains. Can we capture a glimpse of the typeface that translates our emotions? Is there a typography of our individual
more » ... voice? In this paper I will provide an overview of the outcomes from my recently completed PhD research into dynamic typography and emotion. The principal aim of this investigation was to identify the attributes and behaviours of dynamic typographic form that may extend the limited visual description of spoken discourse and enhance the possibilities for representation of emotion through prosody within the context of oral history.
doi:10.5281/zenodo.2596878 fatcat:gryuec334zfybinxpdbqkr7ukq