Primary Sources: Images
Solso, R.L. The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain. MIT Press, 2005
Understanding Images
Understanding Visual Art: the Tate Gallery's fabulous interactive art http://www.tate.org.uk/imap/pages/animated/pairs_ani.htm
Understanding Visual Images: Art in Western Civilization Interactive Exhibits: http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/arthumanities/html/arthum_about.html
Understanding Medieval Images:
http://members.cox.net/mrsparker2/intro.htm
Understanding the elements of visual information design: http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/art/
Understanding visual information design: http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/
Understanding visual design: large website of resources
http://graphicdesign.about.com/?once=true
Understanding visual design http://char.txa.cornell.edu/ Graphic Organizers: http://www.graphic.org/index.html
Word Organizers: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp
Space Organizers: Powers of Ten http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
Searching for images without using words:
http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/
Great site from EDC: the image detective making images more manipulable. http://www.edc.org/CCT/PMA/image_detective/
Also from EDC:
http://www.edc.org/CCT/PMA/
Understanding Color:
http://members.cox.net/mrsparker2/intro.htm
Understanding color in communication:
http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html
XAdding color to black and white images: http://www.recolored.com/index.php
Painting the Music http://www.paintingmusic.com/index.html
A broader view of "21st Century Skills" that students will need to be literate: http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php
Understanding the difference between images and words (from Reading Rockets)
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/10143
Desiging Images
Picnik, a fabulous free site of tools for editing your own (or others') images
http://www.picnik.com/
Colorizing a black and white picture
http://www.recolored.com/index.php
Commercial example of making a difficult website accessible: http://www-306.ibm.com/able/solution_offerings/opera.html
A lot of resources gathered together that will guide you in making accessible websites: http://library.uwsp.edu/aschmetz/Accessible/pub_resources.htm#Guidelines
Interesting commercial site dedicated to using images, rather than words, to get a "feel" for what consumers think: (check out the articles) http://www.olsonzaltman.com/
Images and Universal Design: Making images more universally designed: color transformations http://www.internettg.org/newsletter/mar99/accessibility_color_challenged.html#table http://www.yoyodesign.org/outils/ncolor/ncolor.php
Making images more universally designed: graphic to tactile transformations http://www.taevisonline.purdue.edu/Tactile_Diagrams.html
Making images more universally designed: graphic to auditory transformations http://www.visualprosthesis.com/voice.htm
Art beyond sight:
http://www.artbeyondsight.org/index.shtml
Video games for Blind and Low vision students:
http://www.bscgames.com/
Art and Alzheimer's Patients: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/arts/design/30kenn.html?ex=1144296000&en=f077cc61cd1bc11d&ei=5070
For Fun: Visual soduku http://www.beckysweb.co.uk/sudoku/flickrsudoku.asp?t=&un=forestfortrees&sz=mm&lv=001&sg=&sk1=348&sk2=61&sk3=60&sk4=362&sk5=402&sk6=413&sk7=85&sk8=177&sk9=423&skn=&sx=500
More visual illusions, better science (see also illusionworks site from recognition lecture): http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html
Even more illusions: the best new ones for the year: http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=11
Designing web maps that are accessible
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssmaps
Photos by students with visual impairments
http://www.edutopia.org/lighting-way
