This groundbreaking work explores how children and adults who have been blind since birth can both perceive and draw pictures. John M. Kennedy, a perception psychologist, relates how pictures in raised form can be understood by the blind, and how untrained blind people can make recognizable sketches of objects, situations, and events using new methods for raised-line drawing. According to Kennedy, the ability to draw develops in blind people as it does in the sighted. His book gives detailed descriptions of his work with the blind, includes many pictures by blind children and adults, and provides a new theory of visual and tactile perception―applicable to both the blind and the sighted―to account for his startling findings. Kennedy argues that space perception is possible through touch as well as through sight, and aspects of perspective are found in pictures by the blind. He shows that blind people recognize when pictures of objects are drawn incorrectly. According to Kennedy, the incorrect features are often deliberate attempts to represent properties of objects that cannot be shown in a picture. These metaphors, as Kennedy describes them, can be interpreted by the blind and the sighted in the same way. Kennedy’s findings are vitally important for studies in perceptual and cognitive psychology, the philosophy of representation, and education. His conclusions have practical significance as well, offering inspiration and guidelines for those who seek to engineer ways to allow blind and visually impaired people to gain access to information only available in graphs, figures, and pictures.

Drawing and the Blind: Pictures to Touch

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kennedy, John M.

Psychology & Counseling

Yale University Press

A psychology of picture perception (The Jossey-Bass behavioral science series)

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

Jossey-Bass

This is a description and analysis of the diffusion of publicly-funded (US government performed and sponsored) aeronautical research and development based on studies conducted under the NASA/DoD Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project. The first section describes how our technology and information policies interact to influence the US aerospace industry. The second section presents the findings of the authors' empirical research. The final section offers comparisons with other national systems, analyzes the STI models used by selected federal agencies and presents a revised technology policy and STI model.

Knowledge Diffusion in the U.S. Aerospace Industry: Managing Knowledge for Competitive Advantage (2 Volumes)

Business & Money

Bishop, Ann P.

Pinelli, Thomas E.

Barclay, Rebecca O.

Economics

Ablex Publishing

Knowledge Diffusion in the U.S. Aerospace Industry [2 volumes]: Managing Knowledge for Competitive Advantage [2 volumes] (Contemporary Studies in Information Management, Policy, and Services)

Praeger

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