Archive for the 'Brains & Behaviour' Category

National Geographic: Swarm Behaviour

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

National Geographic’s Swarm Behaviour is a thoroughly interesting article on insect behaviour. It discusses how research into insect behaviour is leading to new techniques in problem-solving, management, and artificial intelligence.
It even could shed light on humans and our behaviour.
“A honeybee never sees the big picture any more than you or I do,” says […]

Artistic Composition - Eyetracking and Training

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

One of these days I’ll get my hands onto some eye tracking tools!
Cognitive Daily: Artists look different discusses research into the differences between the way trained artists and ordinary folks view images.

As someone who works daily with architects, structural engineers, graphic designers and architectural photographers, I’d love to see how their eye movements differ from […]

SerendipitRSS: Icon Analysis and Revision Control

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

A delightful, but freaky coincidence between A List Apart and Boxes and Arrows this morning.
So I’ve popped a couple of pages from their RSS feeds into Firefox tabs, I’ve been staring at this image of spacially frequency-filtered icons, and trying to imagine how the techniques could be of use to me.
Then I flick over to […]