This class focused on 1) Visual Perception and 2) Visual attention.

Here are some resources for you:

• A slide deck I created about the Gestalt principles of visual perception. See also the link in that blog post to applications of Gestalt principles to interface design.
• A site where you can see what your design looks like to people with various types of color blindness.

A few articles that provide evidence that cultural differences (and even religion) influence visual perception:

• A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study of Users’ Perceptions of a Webpage: With a Focus on the Cognitive Styles of Chinese, Koreans and Americans, International Journal of Design, 2008
• Culture shapes eye movements for visually homogeneous objects, Frontiers in Perception Science, 2010
• Religion alters visual perception, New Scientist, 2008

The video below demonstrates selective perception and change blindness:

More brief but entertaining and informative videos from Daniel Simons available on his site, Invisible Gorilla.

Below are the slides about Visual Attention, but please scroll all the way down for the To Do list for next week.

To Do for next week:

• Readings (see syllabus)
• Remember to attend to your blog!
• Look at contents of Cooper chapters for Sept 21 and 28 & be prepared to choose a topic for your presentation. Look for a blog post about the presentations on Sept 21 and 28.
• Read the book Don’t Make Me Think by Sept 21