Article | REF: C3343 V1

Visual space and its control -The visual environment

Authors: Jean-Jacques DAMELINCOURT, Sabrina SOOBHANY

Publication date: August 10, 2007

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9. Trying to structure visual space

The figure 7 illustrates a real-life situation and shows the areas of space where the various phases of visual activity will take place. The "ergorama" is the area in which visual work takes place, comprising the visual task and its immediate surroundings. By extension, this could also be the workstation.

The "panorama" is the area where the visual system comes to rest from visual work and, normally, to disaccommodate. It is during the scanning of this space that the relations to space necessary to the activity and appropriation of the visual space are maintained.

Passages from one area to the other are frequent and necessary. We'll call the relationships that must exist between these two regions of space "links", so that the passage from one to the other can...

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