Visual Thinking - for Design

Visual Thinking - for Design

von: Colin Ware

Elsevier Trade Monographs, 2008

ISBN: 9780080558417 , 256 Seiten

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Visual Thinking - for Design


 

FRONT COVER

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VISUAL THINKING FOR DESIGN

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COPYRIGHT PAGE

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CONTENTS

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PREFACE

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CHAPTER 1 VISUAL QUERIES

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The Apparatus and Process of Seeing

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The Act of Perception

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Bottom-Up

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Top-Down

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Implications for Design

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Nested Loops

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Distributed Cognition

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Conclusion

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CHAPTER 2 WHAT WE CAN EASILY SEE

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The Machinery of Low-Level Feature Analysis

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What and Where Pathways

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Eye Movement Planning

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What Stands Out = What We Can Bias for

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Lessons for Design

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Motion

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Visual Search Strategies and Skills

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The Detection Field

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The Visual Search Process

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Using Multiscale Structure to Design for Search

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Conclusion

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CHAPTER 3 STRUCTURING TWO-DIMENSIONAL SPACE

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2.5D Space

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The Pattern-Processing Machinery

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The Binding Problem: Features to Contours

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The Generalized Contour

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Texture Regions

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Interference and Selective Tuning

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Patterns, Channels, and Attention

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Intermediate Patterns

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Pattern Learning

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Serial Processing

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Visual Pattern Queries and the Apprehendable Chunk

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Multi-chunk Queries

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Spatial Layout

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Horizontal and Vertical

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Pattern for Design

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Examples of Pattern Queries with Common Graphical Artifacts

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Semantic Pattern Mappings

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CHAPTER 4 COLOR

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The Color-Processing Machinery

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Opponent Process Theory

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Channel Properties

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Principles for Design

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Showing Detail

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Color-Coding Information

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Large and Small Areas

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Emphasis and Highlighting

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Color Sequences

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Color on Shaded Surfaces

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Semantics of Color

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Conclusion

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CHAPTER 5 GETTING THE INFORMATION: VISUAL SPACE AND TIME

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Depth Perception and Cue Theory

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Stereoscopic Depth

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Structure from Motion

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2.5D DESIGN

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How Much of the Third Dimension?

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Affordances

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The Where Pathway

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Artificial Interactive Spaces

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Space Traversal and Cognitive Costs

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Conclusion

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CHAPTER 6 VISUAL OBJECTS, WORDS, AND MEANING

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The Inferotemporal Cortex and the What Channel

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Generalized Views from Patterns

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Structured Objects

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Gist and Scene Perception

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Visual and Verbal Working Memory

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Verbal Working Memory

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Control of the Attention and the Cognitive Process

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Long-term Memory

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Priming

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Getting into Visual Working Memory

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Thinking in Action: Receiving a Cup of Coffee

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Elaborations and Implications for Design

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Make Objects Easy to Identify

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Novelty

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Images as Symbols

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Meaning and Emotion

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Imagery and Desire

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Conclusion

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CHAPTER 7 VISUAL AND VERBAL NARRATIVE

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Visual Thinking Versus Language-Based Thinking

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Learned Symbols

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Grammar and Logic

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Comparing and Contrasting the Verbal and Written Modes

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Linking Words and Images Through Diexis

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PowerPoint Presentations and Pointing

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Mirror Neurons: Copycat Cells

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Visual Narrative: Capturing the Cognitive Thread

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Q&A Patterns

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Framing

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FINSTs and Divided Attention

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Shot transitions

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Cartoons and Narrative Diagrams

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Single-frame Narratives

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Conclusion

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CHAPTER 8 CREATIVE META-SEEING

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Mental Imagery

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The Magic of the Scribble

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Diagrams are Ideas Made Concrete

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Requirements and Early Design

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Visual Task Analysis

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The Creative Design Loop

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Cognitive Economics of Design Sketching

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The Perceptual Critique

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Meta-seeing with Design Prototypes

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Visual Skill Development

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Conclusion

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CHAPTER 9 THE DANCE OF MEANING

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Review

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Implications

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Design to Support Pattern Finding

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Optimizing the Cognitive Process

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Learning and the Economics of Cognition

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Attention and the Cognitive Thread

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What's Next?

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