Categorization of synaesthesia.

This article is an attempt to synthesize the current knowledge about synaesthesia from many fields such as literature, arts, multimedia, medicine, or psychology. The main goal of this paper is to classify various types and forms of synaesthesia. Besides developmental synaesthesia being likely to play a crucial role in developing cognitive functions (constitutional or neonatal synaesthesia) there are types of synaesthesia acquired during adulthood (e.g., phantom or artificial synaesthesia), momentary synaesthesia triggered temporarily in people who do not show signs of synaesthesia every day (e.g., virtual, narcotic, or posthypnotic synaesthesia), and associational synaesthesia which, semantically speaking, refers to some universal sense relations (e.g., literary, artistic, and multimedia synaesthesia). There is a hypothesis that every kind of synaesthesia holds a different function—compensatory or integrative. It was suggested that synaesthesia can be described in one dimension, showing the intensity of this phenomenon. The stronger types of synaesthesia are: semantic, conceptual, intermodal, synthetic, comprehensive, external and bidirectional. The weaker types of synaesthesia are: sensory, perceptual, intramodal, analytic, partial, internal and unidirectional. There are huge individual differences in the manner that synaesthesia presents itself. By including a classification of kinds, types, and forms of synaesthesia into future experimental research will ensure a better understanding of the nature of this phenomenon, its mechanisms and the role that it plays in developing cognitive processes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

The colors of the alphabet: Naturally-biased associations between shape and color.

Many letters of the alphabet are consistently mapped to specific colors in English-speaking adults, both in the general population and in individuals with grapheme-color synaesthesia who perceive letters in color. Here, across six experiments, we tested the ubiquity of the color/letter associations with typically developing toddlers, literate children, and adults. We found that pre-literate children associate O with white and X with black and discovered that they also associate I and ameboid nonsense shapes with white; Z and jagged nonsense shapes with black; and C with yellow; but do not make a number of other associations (B blue; Y yellow; A red; G green) seen in literate children and adults. The toddlers' mappings were based on the shape and not the sound of the letter. The results suggest that sensory cortical organization initially binds specific colors to some specific shapes and that learning to read can induce additional associations, likely through the influence of higher order networks as letters take on meaning. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

基于通感的当代创意编程设计的运用与影响

目的通过对创意编程设计中的通感进行分析,阐明通感因素对当代创意编程设计的影响及应用途径。方法通过整理通感与创意编程设计作品的相关概念,结合对实际案例的分析研究,总结出创意编程设计以及融入通感后的特性与优势,进一步探讨创意编程设计领域中运用通感的影响与新趋势。结论通感的融入使创意编程设计有了更好的用户体验,并且创造出一个新的设计市场。     

通感中感觉挪移在产品设计中的应用

目的通过研究明确通感中感觉挪移在产品设计中的应用路径,进一步推动和完善产品通感设计的理论研究,并指导设计的创新实践。方法通过文献研究、案例研究等方法,从感觉挪移的特征、产生基础、应用路径等维度,探析感觉挪移在产品设计中的应用。结论进一步梳理了感觉挪移与通感设计中其他表现形式的关系,阐述了通感产生的生理、心理基础。同时,在此基础上总结了感觉挪移在产品创新设计应用中基于感知关联、认知经验和情感共鸣的3个主要路径。感觉挪移在产品设计中的应用,主要作用于用户的信息获取、加工、反馈等过程,能够为用户提供更为丰富的体验,为当代产品设计的创新提供独特的视角。     

平面设计交互中的艺术通感

目的致力于了解作品受众和他们的期望值,通过研究分析平面设计交互中的艺术通感,将这种通感融入到设计中去,让设计作品和它的受众之间建立一种有机关系,达到设计本身对受众产生的最理想的效果。方法在能指和所指层面对符号学进行分析,并以平面广告为例,研究具体实例中艺术通感之于设计交互的影响。结论艺术通感的研究有利于更有效的实现平面设计交互的最理想效果,它是联接设计师、设计作品、受众的桥梁。艺术通感的研究对于平面设计的影响也必将是未来平面设计方向的一块重要的领域。     

基于通感转化理论的交互装置体验设计

目的 探索通感体验的原理与特征,探讨多感官间通感体验转化流程,进而探究丰富交互装置设计的方法,推进通感体验与情感体验的升级.方法 首先提出了通感体验的三个层次,然后建立了基于交互装置的通感体验转化流程,探讨了通感体验三个层次的体验特征.在此基础上,提出两种引导方法,即用户感知引导与环境引导.最后,以光立方和呼吸墙项目为案例,探讨剖析在交互装置设计中通感设计的目的成效与方式方法.结论 人与数字媒体艺术装置之间的"交流"是双向且灵活的,装置主动引导交互体验的变化与升级,为体验者提供更加丰富且个人化的通感体验和情感体验."交互共同体"触发了体验者的反思,表现为对通感体验的感知维度和情感体验深度的拓展.     

面向自然交互的声音通感设计研究

目的基于通感认知探究声音要素对用户感知的影响,为人机交互中的声音反馈提供设计指导。方法基于通感的意向图式理论,设置三维手势对声音的同步运动实验,以量表对声音指向性进行评价,并以手势动作对声音的主观感知进行表达,统计分析实验数据,结合用户手势分析声音要素变化对用户体验的影响。结果声音的要素变化导致用户对声音的感知发生变化,从而影响用户的交互行为,响度和音调是主要影响因素。结论低音音调和中度响度要素的声音能给予用户较好的声音感知体验,自然交互中,声音反馈的应用可以引导用户进行有效的交互,提升用户的交互效率和操作体验。     

音乐与服装设计的联觉

音乐和服装分别通过听觉和视觉表现人们的精神世界,但这两种艺术类别之间内在的神韵则是统一的。音乐和服装都能使人产生强烈的主观感受,它们之间的结合则可以产生一种联觉的效应。对音乐视听联觉的研究,更有利于发掘欣赏者对二者关系的心理反应,使服装设计的形式更加丰富,从而提高服装设计的审美价值与观赏度。     

产品设计中的通感研究

产品设计中存在着通感现象,它利用了产品之间感觉的相似性,从产品间的功能形态、使用方式、工作原理等方面进行互换,以此种产品来解说彼种产品。产品设计中的通感要依赖于人的日常生活经验和心理感知。通感设计使人们对寻常物品有了新体验,是对生活与设计的重新思考。     

耳中见色 眼里闻声——通感之听觉和视觉的映射理据探研

视听通感是文学艺术中最活跃的通感。从英汉视听通感的例子着手,对视听觉之间的映射做理据探研,旨在突破教育教学中不同学科之间的界限,分析中英语言视听通感之共性,为语言的理解和中英翻译的教学提供理论支撑,使教学更有趣,更有效。