Play, Pain and Religion: Creating Gestalt through Kink Encounter by A. Robertson (2021) Bristol: Equinox, ix + 213pp., 15 figures

Many theories of visual perception assume that before attention is allocated within a scene, visual information is parsed according to the Gestalt principles of organization. This assumption has been challenged by experiments in which participants were unable to identify what Gestalt grouping patterns had occurred in the background of primary-task displays (A. Mack, B. Tang, R. Tuma, S. Kahn, &...

Modern graphical user interfaces support direct manipulation of objects and object groups. Current object group selection techniques such as lasso and rectangle selection can be time-consuming and error-prone. This paper presents a new approach to group selection that exploits the way human perception naturally groups objects, also known as Gestalt grouping. Based on known results from percepti...

This paper discusses the relationship between concepts of narrative, patterns of interaction within computer games constituting gameplay gestalts, and the relationship between narrative and the gameplay gestalt. The repetitive patterning involved in gameplay gestalt formation is found to undermine deep narrative immersion. The creation of stronger forms of interactive narrative in games require...

Discovering root-causes of comprehension errors in software design is important to prevent their presence in software systems. This research synthesizes software engineering and Gestalt principles of similarity, proximity, and continuity for the purpose of discovering whether certain visual attributes of diagrams (dashed arrows, severe complexity, etc.) can affect the accuracy and efficiency of...

In this paper we propose a new framework of speech generation by imitating “infants’ vocal imiation”. Most of the speech synthesizers take a phoneme sequence as input and generate speech by converting each of the phonemes. However infants usually acquire speech generation ability without text or phoneme. As developmental psychology states, from the utterances of their parents, they acquire the ...

Key Gestalt papers focused on the perception and interpretation of grouped objects, and smaller objects located within larger objects or environments. These largely relate to the tendency to group or organise objects which may or may not be associated. Their theories generally “stress[sed] the predominance of the whole over the parts”, proposing that observers tend to perceive any object only i...