Visual vs Symbolic Language

1. Misfortune
2. Depressed
3. Uncertainty-stress
4. Unemployment rate
5. Unhappiness
6. Worrisome

In this picture I can see the worrisome of them all. Some are on the phone, probably is contacting with another company for interview time or ask for hiring. Some are looking at people who are in front of them to see how much longer or how many people that they still need to be waiting. The girl in front, her face expression can exactly bring out the depressing,worrisome and unhappy of the unemployment topic. I can really feel the depressing from their faces. I can't imagine how will I feel if I am one of them.

Wk 4- Visual Puzzle Exercises

This is the first visual puzzle game that I have played. The question is to find out which snake is the shortest. At first I thought it was hard because almost all the snakes look the same. However, I got the right answer. The RED snake is the shortest. If you ask how did i count that out, I can answer you: I don't know! Because I just found it by looking and guessing. First I do is to find the longest, and as you look at the picture, it is so obvious that the BLUE snake is the longest because it seems to cover the most circles. The second is the BLACK snake...Then I got stuck between the GREEN and RED snakes because they have the closest length. Then I use about 10 second to guess which one is the shortest, and I got it right. And actually it is not hard to figure it out. Mckim's concept of "finding" kinda fits into this puzzle because all you need to do is to find the shortest snakes and my finding concept in this puzzle is by looking.

This is the second visual puzzle that I have played. I choose this one because it look colorful. The question about this puzzle is "Which two colors have their total visible areas equal?". Mckim's concepts of "matching" fits into this puzzle because all you need to do is to match shapes. And it is kinda easy. Even more easier than the first one. Because I got it right again in the first time and all you need to do is just compare and match all the shapes.

Wk3 - Feature Hierarchy & Visual Search

 

  

The first picture can easily find the feature hierarchies. In this picture, you can easily recognize the disability sign in the middle even though they are in different colors. The other picture above is kinda like a multi-level hierarchies of a treemap, it show different colors, shapes and patterns. The designer mention that a treemap represented as a rectangle, the size of it depends on some attribute of the data. Like if you has a high-volume trades in a day, then your rectangle will be bigger. So you can see there is a lot of patterns inside the shapes. As I understand the Ware's definition of feature hierarchy's of "what" are colors, it is easy to find different colors in the pictures above. But the "where" is a little bit difficult to find or I don't really know what's that mean. All I can find easily and is in different shape and pattern is the disability sign in the first picture above.

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Wk 2 - Top-Down Processing

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B

What is you first image that comes out in your brain when you saw this two pictures?

I believe the picture A is a common top-down processing. Given the choice between the images of two faces or a vase. When I first look at it I saw two faces in a short fixation, then I recognized that there is an illusion of a vase in the middle of the picture. At the same time in the picture B, I saw a rabbit first then a duck. The former of white against dark background prominence the additional factor of two different illusions.

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picture A: http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSFwCbY6Z97OAOyfm_XaCZOKFOiVFV_oQOl_b9lrjXixJlRBPE&t=1&usg=__4AfcSRJXvmhKXmLgaQZQeF9663c=

picture B: http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:wTak_-qUXZzTwM:http://testplease.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/screen-shot-2009-11-23-at-85613-am.png