Guest lecturer, Tracy Lannon, spoke about emotional engagement and meaningful communication in today's lecture, and how engaging in different types of information will help me create meaningful designs that have a purpose to other people. I need to be able to develop deep self awareness to understand how people function, and I will be able to solve real world problems for a better world to live in with design solutions.
Throughout the presentation we looked into image illusions and how they effect people differently. Illusions are created with certain angles, patterns, colours and presents an image which the eye cannot understand. We as humans have to filter things down to make sense of happenings. Below are a few images that present illusion, our eyes can deceive us. We make things up from seeing objects.
Our expectations dictate our emotional attachment to things. We look for the same kind of things, preparing us for what we will se next time and what we want to take notice of. For example the first image shows either a white vars, or two faces looking directly at each other. It is known that most people look for the faces first because faces are something we see every single day in life and that is what we are more focused on.
Size constancy is thought to create illusion, for example the arrowed horizontal lines below are the same size, however we see the bottom line as being longer due the to angles the smaller lines point at on the end of each line. The second image shows a hallway with two people, the left image shows the man sitting further away, and the right image shows the man sitting next to the woman, but using the same sized figure. Distance and is become very illusional.
Visual stimulation:
Everywhere we look there is movement, sound, colour form. Our brains flips the information we are seeing through our eyes. The retina in our eye is made up of two cells, cone cells are on the edge that only see black and white, they help us prepare for nature and help us respond to things we see after adjusting. Rod cells see colour.
We focused on two tests, the first test we drew a cross and a dot on separate sides of a piece of paper, covered one eye and moved the paper in our vision from side to side - when the dot or cross was out of our vision, the cells in our eyes were not able to work.
Test two, we looked at the circles on the left hand side and picked out the numbers in each shape. It proved quite difficult with all the dots and colours involved, and shows that colour blind people will not be able to work out the figures inside.
This piece of text is created with words that only have the same first and last letters from the original. It is easy for us to fill in the gaps, there is too much information to process so using the same letters but jumbled up inside, is still easy for us to read as we din't look too much into the words themselves.
We focus on the things that are more meaningful to us, for example hearing our own name in a conversation. We can't take things at face value, we have to look closely.
