La communication is the main foundation of society, which in its beginnings was not verbal in nature, so graphic representation was used, which is based on the transmission of information and ideas through drawings, signals or specifically graphic signs.
It has been shown that throughout the development that communication has had in all these years, technical representation continues to be the best method for sharing ideas or information because human beings understand what they want to say more easily in this way , as a saying that says "a picture is worth a thousand words"
Throughout the history of mankind it has been observed how the cultures and civilizations that have shaped their teachings, characteristics, history and their way of seeing the world in cave walls, temples, pyramids, among others, with which today they are has been able to understand how they were and how they lived.
What is technical presentation?
It refers to any drawing, graph, sign, sign or symbol that transmits information directly to any person who maintains visual contact with it. In computing, technical representation can be associated with the use of symbols that demonstrate the function of some software or a program.
This is associated with technical communication which involves the transmission of information through speech, writing and any other type of communication, usually people who use this type of communication create and produce products in various media such as the internet, a video, banners or simply on paper.
Types of technical communication
This can be divided based on the way in which the information is transmitted, which implies the communication process between two or more people, of which they are classified as:
- Graphics: It is when symbols or signs designed to instruct, guide and alert people in certain aspects are made, such as the icons of the applications of cell phones or tablets, or signs that are usually stuck on doors warning that the place is dangerous for example .
- Oral: refers to the type of verbal communication in which the participants make use of speech to transmit information.
- Gestural: the sender shares the information with movements of the body or face that resemble or assimilate in some way what he wants to transmit.
- Signals: Although these are part of the graphics, they have their own line that identifies them as all those symbols intended to guide people on the actions they should take in a given situation.
- Printed: refers to all text that can be printed by a device capable of issuing these documents, such as printers, characterized by being part of literal verbal communication, which can also be observed virtually, with the same documents only through from a device that has internet access.
Examples of methods for using technical representation
Yes, the types of technical representation, and how to apply them to everyday life, either at work, at university or at school, we will proceed to show the different methods that can be used, and of which they may have been used previously.
Models
It is based on the creation of any structure, be it architectural, or any type of product, on a considerably smaller scale, in order to show its functionalities, volumes and diameters.
The models are seen in work environments, as well as in schools or students, such as: models of buildings, shopping centers, volcanoes, the solar system, among many others.
Schematics
We proceed to make a series of drawings that in turn contain detailed information with analysis, interpretation, and organization of the same to be able to form a kind of graphic guide that hierarchizes the ideas.
There are two types, which are the synoptic tables that are used when the terms and concepts have many divisions and subdivisions and the diagrams that facilitate the relationship process that certain technical representations may have with the information transmitted in it.
Graphics
They are mathematical in nature and are mostly associated with statistics, since they are based more than anything on the numerical factors of an investigation, reflecting with images, symbols or graphic forms the results of a field experiment, or any type of activity that of how I result numbers.
different types of graphs, which can be chosen depending on the taste, or the one that best suits the activity to be carried out with them, of which there are the linear graphs, the circular graphs, the ones with bars, the pictograms and the histograms.
Sketch
It is a usually handwritten document, easy to make, with indications of some small diameter place, in which the different characteristics that it may have are established.
These have been marketed as didactic sketches, which have the purpose of showing a structure of the same already made, so that the students in this case, simply have to complement the information, with the appropriate one for a certain moment.
Diagram
It seeks to show the solution of a problem or its proposition, and the relationship that could exist between the participating elements, through graphic representation elements, looking for normality or any variation that may exist of any law.
There are infinities of types of diagram among which some can be mentioned as the class diagram, block diagram, reader, display communication, flow, object, packet diagram, electronic, polar, syntactic, among many others that vary according to the type of information and the context that is added to them.
Symbols
They are all those graphic demonstrations of an idea in general, carrying everything that it implies, the vast majority of human activities are used, such as states and their national symbols.
It should be noted that these have been used by man throughout his development on earth, starting from small drawings of what his life was like in the cave age, and continuing by other civilizations.
Plans
These are graphic representations of an extensive territory, which unlike maps, it is not necessary to travel it to be able to do it, most of the plans are associated with architecture, since professionals in this area must before starting to build the buildings. draw a preliminary guide on how your work will be.
Posters
They are characterized by being a type of information printed on usually huge banners for get the public's attention, thus generating interest in the subject, which is why more graphic representation such as images or drawings are used than literal information such as texts.
These can be classified depending on the field in which they are used, such as commercial, political, informational posters, among others.
Main purpose of technical representation
Due to its purely graphic characteristics, its objective is to attract the general public with respect to what is to be transmitted, to generate more simplified and easy guides and accesses for all those who wish to acquire the information provided by them.
Also functioning as the main support base for studies, because as mentioned above, an image can describe what 1000 words cannot, so it implies that human beings understand even more when it comes to graphic representation. .
Technical representation in computing
A resource widely used in this profession, since the creation of the programs also need to capture the attention of future and potential clients, so they require an excellent graphic representation, which is striking, ingenious, and which in turn encompasses a single image everything that the application or software implies.