February – April:
Cintiq pen display in the classroom – Research assistant Jack Wong incorporates a Cintiq 22HD pen display extensively while teaching a NSCAD Extended Studies course, "Extreme Measuring" (on visual measurement techniques and processes for accurate observational drawing). Wong explores various uses of the Cintiq in classroom demonstrations, providing further qualitative observations to inform the lab's ongoing project on the pedagogical applications of the digital pen display.
July:
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Completion of Foveal/Peripheral Study, Phase 1 - Phase 2 begins ​– The first phase of our extensive study on the contributions of central versus peripheral vision in observational drawing is completed. Phase 1 involved developing software and protocols around eye-tracking technology for "masking" the different parts of vision, with experimental subjects completing a purely perceptual task under these conditions as a proof of concept. The results, summarized for a forthcoming paper "On the roles of central and peripheral vision in the extraction of global and local information from a scene," informs the next phase involving a drawing task, which is currently underway.
September:
Filter Study – After initial pilots and discussion, testing begins for a parallel study to the foveal/peripheral experiment (above) employing image manipulation filters corresponding to high/low-frequency pathways in vision.