Ecological Perception Research, Visual Communication, and Aesthetics

This book tries to apply James J. Gibson's ecological approach to picture perception to questions of visual communication and aesthetics; it provides examples from architecture, industrial design and the arts, to testify the feasibility of this application. Additional theoretical analyses, partly based on cross-cultural and clinical research, help supplement Gibson's basic conjecture, that picture perception is essentially based on invariants of optical structure, rather than interpretation.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The ecological optics of information surfaces.- I: Pictures, plans, drawings, and displays - surrogate information and means for communication.- 2. Picture perception as "indirect" perception.- 3. The communicative potential of pictures: eleven theses.- 4. On two distinct and quintessential kinds of pictorial representation.- 5. Meaning, presence and absence in pictures.- 6. Decomposing optical stimulus information by pictures.- 7. Communicating design ideas: a pictorial essay.- 8. Functional versus dysfunctional aspects of information surfaces.- II: Ecological aesthetics.- 9. The semiotics and aesthetics of surfaces and surface layouts.- 10. Ecological perception and aesthetics: pictures are affordance-free.- 11. The "aesthetic experience" as perceiving the general affordance of explorability.- 12. Epilogue: Availability and affordances of information from information surfaces.- Author index.- List of contributors.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Klau Landwehr (Herausgeber), Klaus Landwehr (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 19.11.2012
• EAN: 9783540522003
• ISBN: 978-3-540-52200-3
• Seiten: 143
• Abmessung: 165 mm x 240 mm x 10 mm
• Gewicht: 290 g
• Illustration: VIII, 143 p. 9 illus.
• Serien: Recent Research in Psychology; Recent Research in Psychology
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Psychologie; Sachbuch > Psychologie, Esoterik, Spiritualität, Anthroposophie > Psychologie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke