Design Democratization with Communities: Drawing Toward Locally Meaningful Design

2. Creating Meaning Of Visual Representations

Object recognition requires an integration of visual input, processing and semantic information and therefore conceptual knowledge is a constantly interacting aspect of object processing (Clarke et al., 2011; Rahman & Sommer, 2008). Theories describe the process of object recognition occurring in two ways; either bottom-up or top-down processing, although it is now commonly believed that both play a role in object recognition (Epshtein et al., 2008). Knowledge is an important aspect of top-down processing, shaping early perception and allowing for the recognition of visually demanding and blurred images limited to once own prior knowledge (Rahman & Sommer, 2008).