Spatial abilities and its implication for novice designers

Title: Spatial abilities and its implication for novice designers
Creator: Williams, Anthony; Sutton, Ken
Relation: DesignEd Asia Conference 2009. DesignEd Asia Conference 2009: Forget the Future: What are Today's Design Education Issues? Conference Proceedings (Hong Kong 1-2 December, 2009)
Relation: http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/designedconference2009/index.php
Publisher: School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Resource Type: conference paper
Date: 2009
Description: One of the more important aptitudes for students studying design courses is spatial ability, often referred to as simply visualisation. Spatial ability encompasses the skills required to perform mental rotation of objects, the ability to understand how objects appear in different positions, and the skill to conceptualise how objects relate to each other in space. This paper reports on a series of studies conducted at the University of Newcastle, which form part of a national research project concerned with assessing and improving visualisation specific to design disciplines. These studies primarily focus on establishing a reliable measure of spatial ability to identify poor performers so that training and learning tasks can be developed.
Subject: spatial ability; design education; visualisation; University of Newcastle, (NSW)
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/919859
Identifier: uon:8999
Identifier: ISBN:9789881834126
Language: eng
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