| Title |
Visual Information Processing Using Mental Image in Architectural Design Process |
| Abstract |
In this paper some research findings about visual cognition in cognitive science are reviewed and summarized, and these findings are extended into the domain of architectural design process. In particular, this paper represents an attempt to synthesize what is known about visual information processing in architectural design with the modern cognitive theory on visual imagery. This approach is to interpret the visual thinking phenomena in terms of a theory of mental imagery.A protocol study is reported in which the experimental datais analyzed through the task analysis method. The whole design process is divided into 26 specific tasks which are classified into 9 task groups. Only one of the 9 task groups is non-visual. The visual information processing model for each of 9 task groups is formulated using some combination of the processing modules. All specific tasks are modeled within the constraintsimposed by the general model of imagery representations andprocessing. |