[accessibleimage] Re: Picture Perception and Interpretation

Dear Sylvie,
Thank you  for that excellent article. Very useful in the discussion also about tactile graphics.
A few of questions about what you think
1. Is one of the main points one can take from this article that it is important to understand the experience and exposure to abstract information one is designing for?  
2. Is it possible to develop levels of abstraction for tactile graphic information for the blind?

such as
1. very realistic - 3-d models
2. simple 2d drawings
3. 3d drawings, perspective, symbols
4.

3. And depending upon the culture these can be introduced differently. Such as in the article, introduction of symbolic information for the Hmong was confusing. But for someone with say a city background abstract information, say a tactile map, would be an relatively easy to understand concept? So in the first case one would introduce first 3-d models, then simple 2d drawings etc and in the second case, city background,  the information could be more mixed up, because many of the ideas, abstractions would be known?

It was interesting about the mention of lines of movement. At the Art Beyond Vision conference Prof. John Kennedy mentioned this in relation to an blind artist who "invented" the use of lines of motion in her tactile drawings. These he called metaphors- that the blind artist was inventing tactile metaphors in her pictures (not sure if this is the exact way he put it). He also mentioned when the visual notation of lines of movement was first introduced and by who - (if I remember correctly it was about a 100 years ago - will check my notes).

Thank you very much for sharing the article.

Best,
Lisa


accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx skrev 15. oktober 2007 kl. 18:55 +0000:
Greetings all,

Here, below and attached, is an article I found very interesting.  I am
attaching both a text version and a PDF version. I don't usually share PDF
versions of material because I find them often challenging to read myself
with my screen reader, so I often need to ask friends and colleagues to
convert them to text for me. Then, I don't see any reason why I should give
anyone else using a screen reader the difficulty if I already have the text
version.
But, in this instance, I am also sending the PDF because it has the actual
pictures referred to in the text. I think that those who can see the
pictures will appreciate having them to look at.

If you have already read this article, please excuse the repetition.

Enjoy,

Sylvie


Lisa Yayla
Huseby Kompetansesenter
Oslo Norway
lisa.yayla@xxxxxxxxxx

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