Ecological Perception Research, Visual Communication, and Aesthetics

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 143 Seiten

1990 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-52200-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.2.1990
Reihe/Serie	Recent Research in Psychology
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 143 p. 9 illus.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
Schlagworte	Aesthetics • Cognition • Design • Kognition • perception • Visual communication • Visual perception (pictures) • Visuelle Kommunikation • Wahrnehmungspsychologie
ISBN-10	3-540-52200-X / 354052200X
ISBN-13	978-3-540-52200-3 / 9783540522003
Zustand	Neuware