Monday 30th November 2015
Emotional engagement and meaningful communication, something that was presented to use to start the lecture run by Tracy Lannon. To start the notes of this lecture, we began to cover the question of 'Perception or Illusion?'. This question is answered by looking at the sensory information processing and how, as humans, we naturally filter out things we don't care for or feel the need to take note of it. And as a designer, it is very important to be able to get around these natural filters through means of design and emotion.
Following this point, we go onto the topic of how we see things. We see things through many of our senses, one of these being visual stimulation. Our eye flips an image vertically and that image is then flipped back again by the brain. Another part to visual stimulation would be peripheral vision, which is basically catching something in the corner of your eye - this vision greatly exaggerates details of an image which can be drawn out by thought out design practices.
The lecture also featured a small clip from the BBC that was about our senses as humans and what they can do for us. Starting the clip, one of the first points I had noticed was that it spoke about how our senses help define us as humans. Every second our senses gather millions of data for our brain to formulate and process. Every experience that we have is molded by what our senses perceive. The film also spoke of how technology has helped our senses through time, i.e through the use of hearing aids and such.
