Looking in Everyday Life/Gazing in Museums

o'neill, Marie-Clarte; Dufresne-Tassé, Colette

doi:10.1080/09647779708565838

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“…The other determinants of change detection can be divided between bottom-up, or stimulus-driven, factors, such as visual salience, and top-down, or goal-driven, factors, such as context, gist and motivation ( Borji and Itti, 2013 ). It has been suggested that both bottom-up and top-down factors are enhanced in the visual interactions that take place within museums, due to the exceptional and exemplary nature of the objects being viewed, and the intensity of observation and motivation to form interpretations from what is seen, respectively ( O’Neill and Dufresne-Tassé, 1997 ). However, later discussions have warned against ‘uncritical acceptance of the distinction between utilitarian (ordinary) and the aesthetic (museum) seeing,’ and while it is acknowledged that ‘the notion of the distinction…is, in one form or another, firmly embedded in many account of vision and aesthetic experience,’ in fact, ‘cognitive neuroscience does not supply any facts that could substantiate the sharp divide between the ‘normal’ and the aesthetic perception’ ( Kesner, 2006 ).…”

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“…In the current experiment, we sought first to demonstrate whether change blindness could be produced inside a museum, using ancient museum artefacts as visual stimuli. It has been suggested that the visual interactions taking placed within museums involve enhanced perception compared to everyday visual interactions ( O’Neill and Dufresne-Tassé, 1997 ), raising the question of whether change blindness is still a demonstrable phenomenon under such conditions. Inattentional blindness has been previously investigated in a museum setting ( Levy, 2011 ), but as far as we are aware this is the first attempt to produce change blindness inside a museum.…”

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A Comparison of Change Blindness in Real-World and On-Screen Viewing of Museum Artefacts

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Change blindness is a phenomenon of visual perception that occurs when a stimulus undergoes a change without this being noticed by its observer. To date, the effect has been produced by changing images displayed on screen as well as changing people and objects in an individual's environment. In this experiment, we combine these two approaches to directly compare the levels of change blindness produced in real-world vs. on-screen viewing of museum artefacts. In the real-world viewing condition, one group of participants viewed a series of pairs of similar but slightly different artefacts across eye saccades, while in the on-screen viewing condition, a second group of participants viewed the same artefacts across camera pans on video captured from a head-mounted camera worn by the first set of participants. We present three main findings. First, that change blindness does occur in a museum setting when similar ancient artefacts are viewed briefly one after another in both real-world and on-screen viewing conditions. We discuss this finding in relation to the notion that visual perceptual performance may be enhanced within museums. Second, we found that there was no statistically significant difference between the mean levels of change blindness produced in real-world and on-screen viewing conditions (real-world 42.62%, on-screen 47.35%, X 2 = 1.626, p > 0.05 1 d.f.). We discuss possible implications of these results for understanding change blindness, such as the role of binocular vs. monocular vision and that of head and eye movements, as well as reflecting on the evolution of change detection systems, and the impact of the experimental design itself on our results. Third, we combined the data from both viewing conditions to identify groups of artefacts that were independently associated with high and low levels of change blindness, and show that change detection rates were influenced mainly by bottom-up factors, including the visible area and contrast of changes. Finally, we discuss the limitations of this experiment and look to future directions for research into museum perception, change blindness, real-world and on-screen comparisons, and the role of bottom-up and top-down factors in the perception of change.

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A Comparison of Change Blindness in Real-World and On-Screen Viewing of Museum Artefacts

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“…Ce souci officialise cependant l'échec, déjà constaté dans la pratique quotidienne des musées, de la dynamique malrusienne défendant le principe d'un accès spontané aux chefs-d'oeuvre de l'humanité, la force du message et l'appétence humaine pour l'exceptionnel devant naturellement aboutirà une rencontre 5 . Les travaux de Bourdieu 6 ont, en parallèle, mis en lumière la réalité, scientifiquement constatée, de l'élitisme social de la pratique culturelle, plus précisément, de la venue au musée.…”

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