Sharing Mental Imagery in Collaborative Design


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Creator/Artist: Anupama Kamath

Category: Communication Design

Document: Special project

Batch: 2002-2004

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  1999-2008

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. U. A. Athavankar


Detailed Description

Nigel J. T. Thomas describes mental imagery informally as 'seeing in the minds eye', ' visualization and is a quasi-perceptual experience; it significantly resembles perceptual experience but occurs in the absence of the appropriate perceptual stimuli. The focus of the research started with the goal of understanding mental imagery in the field of design. This experiment is a continuation of the studies of mental imagery in the architectural design process. The earlier experiments attempted to study the nature of mental imagery in the mind of the architect during the design process and the subsequent sharing of the same with a co-architect. In this experiment, the focus would be on the issues that arise in a team while sharing mental imagery.