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Infographic Utility in Accelerating Better Health Communication

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Context is critical Delivering messages to the audience is also the important matter. The visualization of the information is significant in term of perceiving the knowledge. The brain of humans are able to identify and understand the pattern and their relationships especially in visual forms. The infographic is the meaningful and easily sharable tool for deliver the messages through the social media and other new media forms. The communication theories are also support the use of infographics to help increasing the recognition of human brain and help fasten digesting of information through the flood of information. The result of the case studies and practices can support the significant of how the visuals help the audience in any ages effective perceiving messages in one form of digital content (photo and data) through social media, also case studies that are applied the proper infographics to trigger the audience’s intention to raising the health care awareness. The experimental of how five users perceive the knowledge through infographics and how much it can improve the communication are also discussed.

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This research was supported by Faculty of Informatics, Burapha University. We thank our colleagues and friends for all the supports throughout our research work to complete the research successfully.

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    Waralak Vongdoiwang Siricharoen

  2. Faculty of Communication Arts, Huachiew Chalermprakiet University, Samut Prakan, 10540, Thailand

    Nattanun Siricharoen

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Siricharoen, W.V., Siricharoen, N. Infographic Utility in Accelerating Better Health Communication. Mobile Netw Appl 23, 57–67 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-017-0900-3

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