In the Eye of the Beholder - Perception of Indeterminate Art

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dc.contributor.authorWallraven, Christianen_US
dc.contributor.authorKaulard, Kathrinen_US
dc.contributor.authorKürner, Coraen_US
dc.contributor.authorPepperell, Roberten_US
dc.contributor.authorBülthoff, Heinrichen_US
dc.contributor.editorDouglas W. Cunningham and Gary Meyer and Laszlo Neumannen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-22T07:39:42Z
dc.date.available2013-10-22T07:39:42Z
dc.date.issued2007en_US
dc.description.abstractHow do we interpret an object - a scene - a painting? Perception research and art illuminate from different angles how the vast amount of information in our visually perceived environment is processed by the viewer to form a coherent and consistent interpretation of the world. Using drawings and paintings by the artist Robert Pepperell, this work attempts to connect these different world views. Pepperell s paintings at first glance seem to be a baroque fresco, an expressionist still-life, or a cubist collage; taking a closer look, however, this concrete interpretation vanishes and we are left with an indeterminate painting. Using psychophysical experiments and eye tracking measures, in this work we seek to illuminate the visual processing of information in Pepperell s paintings. More specifically, we will investigate how the pattern of fixations - the loci of interest - change as a function of the task ( What is depicted in this scene? vs. Does this image contain people? ) and of the image content. The interpretation of the experimental results in the context of perceptual research will give first insights into the perception of (indeterminate) art. Conversely, the results are also relevant for art, as they provide a kind of perceptual, measurable validation of the artist s intentions.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imagingen_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-905673-43-2en_US
dc.identifier.issn1816-0859en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2312/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH07/121-128en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subjectCategories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): J.5 [Computer Application]: Arts and HumanitiesFine arts; J.4 [Computer Application]: Social and Behavioural SciencesPsychology;en_US
dc.titleIn the Eye of the Beholder - Perception of Indeterminate Arten_US
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