Categorization is crucial to human perception and cognition. Without the abilities to categorize, people would not be able to deal with the multitude of things they perceive daily. Past research has shown that categorization also facilitates effective and efficient browsing of both text and image documents especially when users have no specific document in mind but only some idea of what they are looking for. However, the question of what types of attributes should be used to index categorieslgroupings of images is not fully answered. Knowledge about how people categorize images and assign names to categories may provide some clues to help answer this question. Results of this free sorting study, as well as other research on the nature of categorization and search requests by image users, point to the fact that interpretive attributes are better candidates than perceptual attributes for indexing categorieslgroupings of images.
Young children often participate in reading picture books at home, public libraries, and preschools. Picture books provide children with meaning and an experience united in words and illustrations. Based on unobtrusive and participant observations in public libraries and preschools, this study employs surveys with parents and interviews with children in order to understand whether 3-to 5-year-old children find distinct levels of meaning in images of picture books, and factors that influence their visual perception.
Purpose of the StudyThe purpose of the study is to explore a child's distinct levels of meaning and propose a topology of factors in relation to children, visual perception, and picture books and find correlations of related factors. Visual perception represents a crucial source of information for all human beings, because it organizes other human senses, and identifies and interprets data. Results of the study may contribute to further understanding of distinct information needs of young children and provide implications for visual information seeking and retrieval in a digital environment.This study centers on the difference between visual and verbal information and an association among visual perception, children, and picture books. Children's physical growth and developmental characteristics distinguish them from adults as a unique user group of information. Children's perception is an innate quality as well as part of their developmental abilities. Children's visual perception involves growing and learning through instructions. Children from three to five years old are a large audience of picture books and emergent readers who are perception bound and learn to conceptualize and
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