Featured Article: They've been called the "stairs of death"
Teaching a course in human perception can be even more fun, when it's possible to use local examples to illustrate one's presentation. The current topic discusses two independent sets of stairs in a university's libraries. Each case demonstrates the potential dangers of ignoring fundamental aspects of perception (such as the Gestalt Laws of Organization) and/or the science of human factors.
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Practical Perception is designed with two primary goals in mind.
First, this Site emphasizes the importance of getting a basic grasp of perception as a field – including an appreciation of related sciences and of the importance of clarity when talking about perception itself.
Second, the Site answers questions about common experiences in seeing, hearing, etc. – including questions about why people sometimes make errors and about the connection of such perceptual errors to the field of human factors. The central focus throughout the Site involves how people experience their surroundings – their location and the locations of people/objects around them. Discussions of what one might call "deep" theory are generally limited.
