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Color in Glossolalia: Much Ado About Blue

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Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors

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The aim of this article is to present the Glossolalia project in the aspects that deal with color. Since color is intrinsic to the creation of any designed product and is essential in the process of recognition, perception and communication, it determines the semantics of a given object. In establishing the meanings of color, the aspects that are addressed encompass a broad gamut that include neurology, vision and illumination and the interactions of light and color in the understanding of the nature of design at stake as well as the cultural context. A multidisciplinary approach allows other qualities to be addressed, such as synesthetic reactions to color, communicative variables, color terminology, aesthetics as well as historic and cultural embedding. This essay will address some of these dimensions on the color blue in Western culture.

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    We have used the translation by Frederico Lourenço (b.1963), who has reconstituted in the Portuguese language and in hexameters the poem on the Return of Ulysses to Ithaca.

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    Some (non academic) authors refer as impossible the use of woad to tattoo and paint the body (and the hair), arguing that this pigment, although natural, produces serious skin burns (that are in no way blue). They suggest that the Celtic used copper and iron to produce blue and black, respectively, and not woad.

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The author is grateful to the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) for the support given to the postdoc research entitled Glossolalia: an Alphabet of Critical Keywords on Design and to the Centro de Investigação em Urbanismo e Design (CIAUD) for making possible the participation in AHFE 2016.

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  1. Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design (CIAUD), Rua Sá Nogueira, Pólo Universitário do Alto da Ajuda, 1349-055, Lisbon, Portugal

    Leonor Ferrão

  2. Centro de Investigação em Território, Arquitectura e Design, Rua da Junqueira (CITAD), Universidades Lusíada, Rua da Junqueira, 188–198, 1349-001, Lisbon, Portugal

    Leonor Ferrão

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Ferrão, L. (2016). Color in Glossolalia: Much Ado About Blue. In: Goonetilleke, R., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 489. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41694-6_58

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