This document discusses how human sciences relate to architecture and human perception. It defines human sciences as academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including fields like psychology, sociology, anthropology, and history. It contrasts human sciences with natural sciences, noting that human sciences focus more on human behavior and are more abstract. The document then discusses human perception, defining it as how sensory information is organized, identified, and interpreted to understand the environment. It describes the different human senses and sensory systems, and notes that perception involves both the receipt of sensory signals and cognitive processes like learning, memory, and attention.

1. Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Department of Architectural Engineering
ARC 323 : Human Studies in
Architecture
Fall 2018
Dr. Yasser Mahgoub
Topics 1

2. Architecture and Human Sciences
• Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human
society and culture.
– Psychology
– Sociology
– Anthropology
– Geography
– Archaeology
– History
– Linguistics and languages
– Law and politics
– Literature
– Philosophy
– Religion
– Performing arts
– Visual arts
– …

3. Environment
Space and Place
Geography
Anthropology
Sociology
Psychology
ARCH
Architecture and Human Sciences

4. Human Sciences VS Natural Sciences

5. Human Sciences VS Natural Sciences
• Natural science:
– Focuses on the study of the nature and involves
experiments and theories.
– Chemistry, physics, biology are examples of some
of the study areas of natural science.

6. Human Sciences VS Natural Sciences
• Human science:
– Is more about the behavior, and is more abstract.
– Psychology, sociology, and anthropology are some
examples.

7. Human Perception

8. Perception
• Perception (from the Latin perceptio) is the
organization, identification, and
interpretation of sensory information in order
to represent and understand the presented
information, or the environment.
(Schacter, Daniel (2011). Psychology. Worth Publishers.)

9. Perception
• All perception involves
signals that go through
the nervous system,
which in turn result from
physical or chemical
stimulation of
the sensory system.

10. Senses
• The nervous system has a
specific sensory nervous
system, and a sense
organ, or sensor,
dedicated to each sense.

11. Senses
• In order to receive
information from the
environment we are
equipped with sense
organs e.g. eye, ear, nose.
• Each sense organ is part of
a sensory system which
receives sensory inputs and
transmits sensory
information to the brain.

12. Senses
• A sense is a physiological
capacity of organisms that
provides data for perception.
• The senses and their
operation, classification, and
theory are overlapping topics
studied by a variety of fields,
most notably neuroscience,
cognitive psychology (or
cognitive science), and
philosophy of perception.

13. Senses
• For example:
– vision
involves light striking
the retina of the eye,
– smell is mediated by odor
molecules, and
– hearing involves pressure
waves.

14. Perception
• Perception is not only the
passive receipt of these
signals, but it's also
shaped by the recipient's
learning, memory,
expectation, and
attention.

15. Information  Perception
• A major theoretical issue on which
psychologists are divided is the extent to
which perception relies directly on the
information present in the stimulus.
Information or Perception

16. Information  Perception
• Some argue that
perceptual processes are
not direct, but depend
on the perceiver's
expectations and
previous knowledge as
well as the information
available in the stimulus
itself.

23. What you see is not always what you think!

24. Activity

25. Activity - How many squares
• How many
squares are
there in the
picture?
25Creativity and Innovation - Dr. Yasser Mahgoub

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