A graphic survey of perception and behavior for the design professions /
Forrest Wilson
- New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, c1984.
- x, 298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dynamic basis of form, --Angles-The influence of angles -- Articulation -- Balance -- Change in stimulus -- Clearness -- Closure -- Constancy -- Co-operation of the senses -- DIrecting attention -- Equivocal figures -- Figure ground -- Fusion -- Figure groupings -- Horizontal-vertical-oblique -- Interposition -- Meanfulness of forms -- Movement -- Natural organizations -- Persistence of form and form remembered -- Repetition and continuity -- Perspective converging lines and texture variations -- Space --Interspace -- The perception of structure -- The effects of scale -- Symmetry -- Measured man -- Historic perspective -- Revolutions in behavioral thinking and modern architecture -- The arena of human behavior -- Attention -- Auditory space -- HUD guidelines procedure -- Olfactory space -- Tactile space -- The thermal environment -- Environmental stability-movements -- Aggression and defensible space -- Crowding -- Some thoughts on dominant behavior -- Furniture arrangement 00 Social distance 00 Leadership and dominance -- Notes on spatial edges 00 Personal space -- Notes on psychosomatic fatigue -- Territory -- Status.