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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Liu, Sha
• Li, Runqi
• Dai, Jiaxin
• Ayaz, Hasan
• Mazur, Lukasz

Titel

Research on Visual Sensing Capability Difference Between Designers and Non-designers Based on Difference Threshold Measurement

Ist Teil von

• Advances in Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Engineering, p.161-168

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer International Publishing

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• It is often found that designers are more sensitive to subtle differences in shape and forms. it seems easier for them to find these subtle differences than ordinary people. Can some of the designer’s professional training enhance people’s visual sensing capability? Based on this hypothesis, this study attempts to measure visual difference thresholds of two groups of design majors and non design majors. In the study, two groups of subjects were randomly selected among the 18–25 year old college students. A group of 20 students who had received design training for at least half a year (Design-group for short, DG). The other group of 25 students who did not have any design training (Non-design group for short, NDG). Then, based on the method of constant stimuli, a cell phone icon was chosen as standard stimulus whose size varied according to the percentage change. The subjects would compare and judge the change of the icon’s size and the visual difference thresholds of the two groups were aquired. Finally, we conducted a questionnaire survey on all the subjects to investigate the types of visual training that they had received to figure out the possible factors which might enhance the designers’ visual sensing capability.