Monday 8 February 2010

Gestalt Principles

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  1. Tametiger21 February 2010 at 03:13

    Detailed information about Gestalt Principles:
    http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/gestalt_principles.htm
    http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/2009/cilt26/sayi_2/309-323.pdf
    Principle of proximity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av5Ap3nxToM

    As we know, Gestalt theory started in the field of Gestalt visual research and applied in particular to help understand and explain the psychological problems. Moreover, its application expands to many other fields like architecture, design (such as website design, graphic design), education and other research on the relationship between parts and groups, due to gestalt theory has two main contributions:
    "The first is that it tried to formulate the rules of visual perception through an analysis of object patterns and groupings, and secondly it has formulated principles of problem solving and creativity." (http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/2007/cilt24/sayi_1/93-113.pdf) With introducing how to learn in the gestalt way, there is an article related: http://www.emeraldinsight.com.eproxy1.lib.hku.hk/Insight/viewPDF.jsp?contentType=Article&Filename=html/Output/Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Pdf/1190060202.pdf
    (Azalea)

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  2. Tametiger21 February 2010 at 18:32

    (Sharon)

    [Gestalt is a psychology term which means "unified whole". It refers to theories of visual perception developed by German psychologists in the 1920s. These theories attempt to describe how people tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied.]
    (sorted from: http://graphicdesign.spokanefalls.edu/tutorials/process/gestaltprinciples/gestaltprinc.htm)

    Gestalt Principles could include:
    1. Figure/Ground
    2. Similarity
    3. Proximity
    4. Closure
    5. Good Continuation (Continuity)
    6. Symmetry or Order
    (http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/gestalt_principles.htm)

    In brief, Gestalt theory could be understood by 1+1>2, which means the theory "followed the basic principle that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts".
    (http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/gestalt_principles.htm)

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