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Using comics to improve financial behaviour

Claire — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 09:12:07 +0000

Key terms to complex financial products are generally poorly understood and this can lead to financial distress for consumers that can impact their long-term financial well-being. Comics represent a viable solution to simplifying the way in which these products are presented, thus improving the comprehension of these terms. This study serves as a proof of concept for the use of comics in the financial services industry within the context of a funeral policy. A mixed-method experimental approach was used to show that comics help with perception and usability of a complex text policy document, thereby leading to increased uptake of the insurance product. As such, policymakers and stakeholders should consider comics as a promising alternative for the presentation of the terms of their products. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

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Toward a Universal Visual Language of Law

Claire — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 08:36:06 +0000

There is a legal language that is more universal than text, that can communicate across language and cultural barriers: it is the language of visual images. Visual communication of law provides a means to transmit the content, meaning, and implications of law and legal analysis in legal documents and multimodal communications that are accessible and understandable not only to those trained in the law or highly literate in the dominant written language of the communication, but also to those whose basic language skills in the dominant language of the communication would otherwise not allow them to receive or understand the legal advice, rights, or requirements contained in the communication. READ MORE

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Picture Perfect or Potentially Perilous? A review on comic contract validity

Claire — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:13:29 +0000

Picture Perfect or Potentially Perilous is a review from Dr Mark Giancaspro at the University of Adelaide. He discusses the validity of comic contracts. READ MORE

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A research group develops social welfare documents into comics

Claire — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 09:13:26 +0000

A research group at Tampere University is developing ways to transform social welfare documents into comics. The aim is to create legally binding comic-style documents. They have inspired their work from some of ours. Lack of clarity stops people from exercising their rights. This research project explores the possibility of using comic contracts in nordic countries through a pilot document on the supervised exchange of children. READ MORE

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Democratising access to justice: the comic contract as intersemiotic translation

Claire — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:53:36 +0000

This article, produced by a Finnish University examines the process of creating comic contracts, where the legal text is translated into comics, and argues that this process can be viewed as an intersemiotic translation (where the basis of cultural communication through which ideas are circulated, translated and explained using language, images and other semiotic resources.

Read the full article by Eliisa Pitkasalo and Laura Kalliomaa-Puha HERE

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Convergence and fragmentation: legal research, legal informatics and legal education

Claire — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 15:29:17 +0000

Fragmentation and convergence are two discoursal lenses that have been used to view changes that have taken place in the domains of legal services, the legal profession, regulation and legal education. While they may appear orthogonal, the relationships between them are intimate, sophisticated, constantly shifting and require much more analysis.

Read the full article by Paul Maharg for the European Journal of Law and Technology HERE.

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The Value of Visuals

Claire — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 15:27:36 +0000

We’ve always known that visuals are essential to the effectiveness of communication, and therefore are essential to instruct and inspire. The essential findings of this study are, first, that visuals matter even more than most assume and second, there is an urgency for leaders to adapt as employee demographics change.

Read the full article by TechSmith HERE.

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Deliberate Communication with Pictures: A Science Fiction?

Claire — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:25:37 +0000

The future is most likely to witness the further compression of writing, not its total eradication; it is likely that the co-presence of writing and pictures makes for clearest communication. How would communicators be trained to be productive members of such a world?

Read the full article by Stuart Medley HERE.

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New contract genres

Claire — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:23:53 +0000

Contracts, once almost exclusively written by lawyers for lawyers, are undergoing a major transformation. Technology and design have enabled entirely new contract genres. When the focus shifts from legal issues to functionality and ease of use, automation and communication come to the fore. We envision a future where contracts are designed to contain code, text, sound, visuals, comics, and more. They work for both computers and humans, on and off screen: they can auto-execute desired terms as well as guide human behavior toward more collaborative and productive ends.

Read the full article written by Helena Haapio, Robert de Rooy and Thomas D. Barton HERE.

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Where are the Graphics? Communicating Legal Ideas Effectively Using Images and Symbols

Claire — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:22:41 +0000

Incorporating visual elements in legal writing can be beneficial in demystifying the law by providing easy-to-comprehend signposts, allowing easy navigation of lengthy or complex processes and documents.

Read the full article by Tania Leiman for the Legal Education Review HERE.

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