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Preface | p. ix |
Visual Queries | p. 1 |
The Apparatus and Process of Seeing | p. 5 |
The Act of Perception | p. 8 |
Bottom-Up | p. 10 |
Top-Down | p. 12 |
Implications for Design | p. 14 |
Nested Loops | p. 17 |
Distributed Cognition | p. 19 |
Conclusion | p. 20 |
What We Can Easily See | p. 23 |
The Machinery of Low-Level Feature Analysis | p. 25 |
What and Where Pathways | p. 26 |
Eye Movement Planning | p. 26 |
What Stands Out = What We Can Bias for | p. 27 |
Lessons for Design | p. 33 |
Motion | p. 36 |
Visual Search Strategies and Skills | p. 37 |
The Detection Field | p. 37 |
The Visual Search Process | p. 39 |
Using Multiscale Structure to Design for Search | p. 40 |
Conclusion | p. 41 |
Structuring Two-Dimensional Space | p. 43 |
2.5D Space | p. 44 |
The Pattern-Processing Machinery | p. 46 |
The Binding Problem: Features to Contours | p. 46 |
The Generalized Contour | p. 49 |
Texture Regions | p. 50 |
Interference and Selective Tuning | p. 51 |
Patterns, Channels, and Attention | p. 52 |
Intermediate Patterns | p. 53 |
Pattern Learning | p. 54 |
Serial Processing | p. 55 |
Visual Pattern Queries and the Apprehendable Chunk | p. 55 |
Multi-chunk Queries | p. 56 |
Spatial Layout | p. 56 |
Horizontal and Vertical | p. 57 |
Pattern for Design | p. 58 |
Examples of Pattern Queries with Common Graphical Artifacts | p. 60 |
Semantic Pattern Mappings | p. 62 |
Color | p. 65 |
The Color-Processing Machinery | p. 66 |
Opponent Process Theory | p. 68 |
Channel Properties | p. 69 |
Principles for Design | p. 75 |
Showing Detail | p. 75 |
Color-Coding Information | p. 77 |
Large and Small Areas | p. 77 |
Emphasis and Highlighting | p. 78 |
Color Sequences | p. 80 |
Color on Shaded Surfaces | p. 83 |
Semantics of Color | p. 84 |
Conclusion | p. 84 |
Getting the Information: Visual Space and Time | p. 87 |
Depth Perception and Cue Theory | p. 89 |
Stereoscopic Depth | p. 94 |
Structure from Motion | p. 95 |
2.5D Design | p. 95 |
How Much of the Third Dimension? | p. 97 |
Affordances | p. 99 |
The Where Pathway | p. 100 |
Artificial Interactive Spaces | p. 102 |
Space Traversal and Cognitive Costs | p. 103 |
Conclusion | p. 105 |
Visual Objects, Words, and Meaning | p. 107 |
The Inferotemporal Cortex and the What Channel | p. 108 |
Generalized Views from Patterns | p. 109 |
Structured Objects | p. 110 |
Gist and Scene Perception | p. 112 |
Visual and Verbal Working Memory | p. 114 |
Verbal Working Memory | p. 115 |
Control of the Attention and the Cognitive Process | p. 115 |
Long-term Memory | p. 116 |
Priming | p. 118 |
Getting into Visual Working Memory | p. 118 |
Thinking in Action: Receiving a Cup of Coffee | p. 120 |
Elaborations and Implications for Design | p. 121 |
Make Objects Easy to Identify | p. 121 |
Novelty | p. 122 |
Images as Symbols | p. 123 |
Meaning and Emotion | p. 124 |
Imagery and Desire | p. 125 |
Conclusion | p. 126 |
Visual and Verbal Narrative | p. 129 |
Visual Thinking Versus Language-Based Thinking | p. 130 |
Learned Symbols | p. 131 |
Grammar and Logic | p. 132 |
Comparing and Contrasting the Verbal and Written Modes | p. 133 |
Linking Words and Images Through Diexis | p. 135 |
PowerPoint Presentations and Pointing | p. 136 |
Mirror Neurons: Copycat Cells | p. 137 |
Visual Narrative: Capturing the Cognitive Thread | p. 138 |
Q&A Patterns | p. 139 |
Framing | p. 139 |
FINSTs and Divided Attention | p. 140 |
Shot transitions | p. 141 |
Cartoons and Narrative Diagrams | p. 142 |
Single-frame Narratives | p. 144 |
Conclusion | p. 145 |
Creative Meta-Seeing | p. 147 |
Mental Imagery | p. 148 |
The Magic of the Scribble | p. 152 |
Diagrams are Ideas Made Concrete | p. 155 |
Requirements and Early Design | p. 156 |
Visual Task Analysis | p. 157 |
The Creative Design Loop | p. 158 |
Cognitive Economics of Design Sketching | p. 158 |
The Perceptual Critique | p. 160 |
Meta-seeing with Design Prototypes | p. 162 |
Visual Skill Development | p. 163 |
Conclusion | p. 164 |
The Dance of Meaning | p. 165 |
Review | p. 166 |
Implications | p. 172 |
Design to Support Pattern Finding | p. 172 |
Optimizing the Cognitive Process | p. 174 |
Learning and the Economics of Cognition | p. 177 |
Attention and the Cognitive Thread | p. 179 |
What's Next? | p. 181 |
Index | p. 183 |
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