Ambient light display presents peripheral information unobtrusively,and it can be context aware and aesthetically enhance specific environment.However,since the abstract characteristic of light,people should attentive...Ambient light display presents peripheral information unobtrusively,and it can be context aware and aesthetically enhance specific environment.However,since the abstract characteristic of light,people should attentively keep agood balance between unobtrusiveness and effectiveness,when designing an ambient light display.Especially,in the condition of high information capacity,ambient light display need a mechanism to portray information effectively.In this paper,a framework with an overlay mechanism is evaluated for high information capacity.Based on the framework,two ambient light displays are designed to support the evaluation work.The evaluation questions are related with three aspects including information understanding,transition and encoding,special output channel.From the perception level,interpretation level and experience level,the process of evaluation is implemented.The results indicate that the framework with the overlay mechanism can effectively support varied and specific communicating information.The transitions and information encoding benefit from the proper mapping of states and notification levels in the framework.展开更多
Female cichlid fish living in African great lakes are known to have sensory systems that are adapted to ambient light environments.These sen-sory system adaptations are hypothesized to have influenced the evolution of...Female cichlid fish living in African great lakes are known to have sensory systems that are adapted to ambient light environments.These sen-sory system adaptations are hypothesized to have influenced the evolution of the diverse male nuptial coloration.In rock-dwelling Lake Malawi mbuna cichlids,however,the extent to which ambient light environments influence female sensory systems and potentially associated male nuptial coloration remains unknown.Yet,the ubiquitous blue flank coloration and UV reflection of male mbuna cichlids suggest the potential impacts of the blue-shifted ambient light environment on these cichlid's visual perception and male nuptial coloration in the shallow water depth in Lake Malawi.In the present study,we explored whether and how the sensory bias of females influences intersexual communication in the mbuna cichlid,Metriaclima zebra.A series of choice experiments in various light environments showed that M.zebra females (1)have a pref-erence for the blue-shifted light environment,(2)prefer to interact with males in blue-shifted light environments,(3)do not show a preference between dominant and subordinate males in full-spectrum,long-wavelength filtered,and short-wavelength filtered light environments,and (4)show a"reversed"preference for subordinate males in the UV-filtered light environment.These results suggest that the visual perception of M.zebra females may be biased to the ambient light spectra in their natural habitat by local adaptation and that this sensory bias may influence the evolution of blueand UV reflectivepatterns in male nuptial coloration.展开更多
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文摘Ambient light display presents peripheral information unobtrusively,and it can be context aware and aesthetically enhance specific environment.However,since the abstract characteristic of light,people should attentively keep agood balance between unobtrusiveness and effectiveness,when designing an ambient light display.Especially,in the condition of high information capacity,ambient light display need a mechanism to portray information effectively.In this paper,a framework with an overlay mechanism is evaluated for high information capacity.Based on the framework,two ambient light displays are designed to support the evaluation work.The evaluation questions are related with three aspects including information understanding,transition and encoding,special output channel.From the perception level,interpretation level and experience level,the process of evaluation is implemented.The results indicate that the framework with the overlay mechanism can effectively support varied and specific communicating information.The transitions and information encoding benefit from the proper mapping of states and notification levels in the framework.
文摘Female cichlid fish living in African great lakes are known to have sensory systems that are adapted to ambient light environments.These sen-sory system adaptations are hypothesized to have influenced the evolution of the diverse male nuptial coloration.In rock-dwelling Lake Malawi mbuna cichlids,however,the extent to which ambient light environments influence female sensory systems and potentially associated male nuptial coloration remains unknown.Yet,the ubiquitous blue flank coloration and UV reflection of male mbuna cichlids suggest the potential impacts of the blue-shifted ambient light environment on these cichlid's visual perception and male nuptial coloration in the shallow water depth in Lake Malawi.In the present study,we explored whether and how the sensory bias of females influences intersexual communication in the mbuna cichlid,Metriaclima zebra.A series of choice experiments in various light environments showed that M.zebra females (1)have a pref-erence for the blue-shifted light environment,(2)prefer to interact with males in blue-shifted light environments,(3)do not show a preference between dominant and subordinate males in full-spectrum,long-wavelength filtered,and short-wavelength filtered light environments,and (4)show a"reversed"preference for subordinate males in the UV-filtered light environment.These results suggest that the visual perception of M.zebra females may be biased to the ambient light spectra in their natural habitat by local adaptation and that this sensory bias may influence the evolution of blueand UV reflectivepatterns in male nuptial coloration.
