Visual intelligence : perception, image, and manipulation in visual communication

Visual intelligence : perception, image, and manipulation in visual communication

On line and on paper : visual representations, visual culture, and computer graphics in design engineering

Inside technology

Inside technology.

Introduction -- Coding and Claiming: Codification and the Rise of Engineering as a Profession -- The Visual Culture of Engineers: Drawing, Seeing, and Standardizing Perception -- The Yellow Brick Road to Production: Development of a Turbine Engine Package -- The Political Career of a Prototype: Development of a Precision Medical Instrument -- Computer Graphics in Design Engineering: How and Why Changes in Visual Culture Cause Restructuring -- Mixed-Use Practices: Combining the Electronic World and the Paper World -- The Aura of "High Tech" in a World of Messy Practice: Standardization, Mystification, and Glamour -- The Power of Visual Representations: Mixed Practices, Multivisual Competencies, and Meta-indexicals.

On line and on paper : visual representations, visual culture, and computer graphics in design engineering

Inside technology

Inside technology.

Introduction -- Coding and Claiming : Codification and the Rise of Engineering as a Profession -- The Visual Culture of Engineers : Drawing, Seeing, and Standardizing Perception -- The Yellow Brick Road to Production : Development of a Turbine Engine Package -- The Political Career of a Prototype : Development of a Precision Medical Instrument -- Computer Graphics in Design Engineering : How and Why Changes in Visual Culture Cause Restructuring -- Mixed-Use Practices : Combining the Electronic World and the Paper World -- The Aura of "High Tech" in a World of Messy Practice : Standardization, Mystification, and Glamour -- The Power of Visual Representations : Mixed Practices, Multivisual Competencies, and Meta-indexicals.

Handbook of visual communication : theory, methods, and media

LEA's communication series

LEA's communication series.

From an oak to a stand of aspen : visual communication theory mapped as rhizome analysis / Aesthetics theory ; Creative visualization / Perception theory / Eye tracking mathodology and the Internet / Perception and the newspaper page : a critical analysis / Representation theory / Cultural palettes in print advertising : formative research design method / Content analysis of representation : photographic coverage of blacks by nondaily newspapers / Theory of visual rhetoric / A visual rhetorical study of a virtual university's promotional efforts / Visual metaphors in print advertising for fashion products / Empowerment through shifting agents : the rhetoric of the clothesline project / Cognitive theory / Children's comprehension of visual images in television / Visual semiotics theory / An intended-perceived study using visual semiotics / The image and the archive : a semiotic approach / Reception theory ; A textual analysis of political television ads / Phenomenology and historical research / Narrative theory / Using narrative theory to understand the power of news photographs / Aesthetics theory / A content analysis of political speeches on television / Examining documentary photography using the creative method / Visual ethics theory / A survey of reactions to photographic manipulation / Studying visual ethics by applying a typology of visual behavior / Visual literacy theory / Media literacy, aesthetics, and culture / Cultural studies theory / A Burkean analysis of a television promotional advertisement / A cultural analysis of the Unisys "monitor head" television commercial / A historial approach to understanding documentary photographs : dialogue, interpretation, and method

Communication in humans and other animals

Advances in interaction studies,

Advances in interaction studies ;

Introducing communicative behaviour -- Social life and the need of communication -- Linguistic perspectives on communication and language -- Biological perspectives on communication -- Comparing linguistic and biological perspectives -- Major themes in comparisons between human and animal communication -- Hockett's design features -- Methodology and research questions -- Do animals use displacement? -- Do animals have combinatory principles? -- Do animal systems have arbitrary content/form relations? Do animals learn the system? -- How did language evolve? -- Parent-offspring communication and cooperative breeding -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Introduction -- Research methods and observational techniques -- Playback as a method for investigating communication -- Advances in technology influence the methods -- Acoustic communication -- When and where? -- How? Production and perception -- Echolocation and other sounds in dolphins and whales -- Visual communication -- When and where? -- How? Visual capacities -- Colour patterns -- Body postures and facial expressions -- Tactile communication -- When and where? -- How? Skin, whiskers and sidelines -- Indirect tactile signals -- the seismic signal system -- Chemical communication -- When and where? -- How? -- olfactory system -- Electrical communication -- multimodal honeybee -- acoustic, visual, chemical, seismic communication -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Introduction -- Social life and the languages of the world -- Observation techniques -- Language functions -- child's discovery of language -- the first year of life -- Parent-infant interaction -- "little universalist" -- early perception of speech sounds -- Early vocalization -- babbling -- Language in the toddler -- Mapping forms to meanings -- Cultural differences reflected in children's language -- Words and world-views -- what do you call your cousin? -- But what about grammar? -- Recursion -- When problems arise -- Specific Language Impairment -- Second language acquisition -- organizing language once again -- Sign language -- another modality -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Introduction -- Research methods and observation techniques 8o -- Functions -- what do we use nonverbal communication for? -- Permanent versus temporary expressions -- Synchronising in sympathy -- Acoustic communication -- Extralinguistic expressions -- laughters and cries -- Paralinguistic expressions -- with speech -- Visual communication -- Body postures -- Hand movements -- pointing -- Other hand gestures -- Head and face -- Eyes and gaze -- Complexion -- Tactile communication -- Chemical communication -- model for analyzing gestures -- The Ekman and Friesen model -- Where verbal and nonverbal communication meet: Speech-related gestures -- McNeill model -- Using knowledge of nonverbal expressions in verbal descriptions -- When production is not automatized -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Introduction -- primate family -- Social life -- Studying nonhuman primates -- how it all began -- Observation techniques -- Communicative functions -- referential function -- first reported in vervet monkeys -- social function -- with focus on synchronization of behaviour -- Acoustic communication -- Some vocalizations and their use -- Vocal learning in nonhuman primates -- Structural aspects of vocalizations -- do nonhuman primates have syntax? -- Visual communication -- Body postures -- Hand and arm gestures -- Face and gaze -- Tactile communication -- a lot of grooming -- Chemical communication -- Cultural/dialectal differences -- results of social learning -- Teaching human language to nonhuman primates -- Speech -- Sign language -- Plastic chips -- Computers and lexigrams -- Discussion -- primary versus secondary communication in nonhuman primates -- Primary communication -- data base -- Primary communication -- functions and structures -- Secondary communication -- human language as a second variety -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Introduction -- Canine class -- Social life of wolves and dogs -- Observation techniques -- Functions of Canine communication -- Social functions -- Studies of the referential function -- Acoustic communication -- Barking -- Growling -- Chorus howling in wolves -- Visual communication -- Head and face -- Tail -- Tactile communication -- Chemical communication -- Developmental patterns in intra-specific communication -- dog in the human family -- learning to communicate with another species -- Dogs' understanding of humans -- Humans' understanding of dogs -- Not interactional synchrony -- but accommodation -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Introduction -- Ayes class -- Social life of birds -- Observation techniques -- Functions -- why do birds communicate? -- Alignment of songs -- counter-singing and duetting -- Referential function in birds -- the calls of the domestic fowl -- Acoustic communication -- Variation across and within species -- Structural aspects of song -- Learning how to sing -- Sensitive phases and developmental stages -- Dialectal differences -- Visual communication -- Talking with the tail -- Chemical communication -- Birds and humans -- Teaching language to birds -- Summary -- Suggested readings -- Introduction -- Social life and communication in humans and animals -- What is so special about language? Revisiting Hockett's predictions -- Why and how did language evolve? -- Why and when did it happen? -- Are there any parallel changes in human physiology? -- Is language a result of cooperative breeding? -- Learning intraspecific communication -- not only for humans -- Child language and animal communication -- Can language be taught to nonhumans? -- Summary -- Suggested readings.

The vision machine / Paul Virilio.

Machine de vision. English

Perspectives ;

The object stares back : on the nature of seeing

The psychology of graphic images : seeing, drawing, communicating

Multidisciplinary approaches to visual representations and interpretations

Studies in multidisciplinarity,

Visual studies : a foundation for artists and designers

Visual literacy