Research On Sensory Information Integration In Female Suit Silhouette Perception

Sensory evaluation of the garment is the integration,interpretation and analysis process of perception information from garment color,silhouette and material,etc.The study of sentimental garment design should start from the understanding of customers'sensory evaluation for the garment.The analysis of sentimental design theory and research status shows that there is little research on perception information integration from perceptual research by far.From the perspective of garment silhouette,the paper takes silhouette elements that affect perception as the information source that can generate unique visual clues and studies the integration manner of the information passed on to the observers from these information sources through inspecting perception changes.Afterwards,the paper relies on the theoretical basis of cognitive psychology to study sensory evaluation of the garment through behavior experiments and data analysis.The study of sensory evaluation information integration for garment silhouette can provide a basis for integrating other perception information such as color and texture to study sensory evaluation of the garment.The paper studies perception changes in sensory evaluation of the silhouette of the female suit by changing visual scale of silhouette elements.The focus is the integration manner of perception information with the major research contents as follows:1)The integration of perception information is the key to studying perception.Based on the information integration theory,two hypotheses about the fusion of perception information are put forward,i.e.weak fusion and strong fusion.Weak fusion means that each visual clue generates perception separately while strong fusion is that the clues interplay to generate perception.2)Garment silhouette is one of the important factors that affect aesthetic perception about the garment.The paper takes the silhouette of female suit as the research object and waistline(relax),length changes,hem elements and shoulder slope and width changes as silhouette elements that affect the perception of female suit so as to facilitate quantitative research.3)Behavioral experimental paradigm,also known as Same-Different Judgment,SD paradigm for short,is a mature paradigm for the study of people's behaviors to obtain psychological cognition reactions.The paper introduces the paradigm to study conscious activities of sensory evaluation for the silhouette of female suit,and takes professional sense and preference evaluation as perception output.The result shows that behavioral experimental paradigm is an effective approach to study the integration of perception information from customers' sensory evaluation for garment silhouette.4)In the first behavioral experiment,the waistline,length and hem elements of the silhouette of female suit are changed while other elements remain unchanged for the quantitative research of the integration manner for perception information.The result shows that the waistline(relax)and length changes have remarkable main effect in professional sense and preference evaluation with weak fusion.The change of hem elements,however,has non-significant main effect.5)In the second behavioral experiment,besides the changes of waistline and length,shoulder slope and width changes are also added while hem remain unchanged to verify the weak fusion of waistline ease and length changes in sensory evaluation of the silhouette of female suit under different silhouette elements.The waistline ease and length changes still show a remarkable main effect in professional sense and preference evaluation while shoulder slope and width changes show non-significant main effect,which means that weak fusion still exists.Besides,there is also interaction of silhouette elements,which means that strong fusion also exists.Through data analysis of the behavioral experiments,the paper draws the following conclusions and builds an integration model of perception information:1)Both professional sense and preference evaluation have information integration manner of weak fusion of waistline and length changes,which suggests the significance of these two silhouette elements in the process of forming sensory evaluation.However,perception information integration of complete weak fusion is not generated in sensory evaluation of the silhouette of female suit,which suggests the complexity of perception information integration.2)In professional sense and preference evaluation of both the behavioral experiments,silhouette elements have interactions in sensory evaluation of female suit,which suggests that the integration of perception information in sensory evaluation of female suit has strong fusion.3)In the first and second behavioral experiments,silhouette elements that generate strong fusion in professional sense and preference evaluation,as well as the ways of strong fusion are different.Moreover,the main effect of silhouette elements that affects the perception of female suit and the interaction effect between elements function among different levels of silhouette elements,which suggest that the main effect and interaction effect carry different weights in professional sense and preference evaluation.4)Based on the above research results as well as Feature Integration Theory proposed by Treisman in information integration,the paper builds a model that combines weak fusion and strong fusion in the formation of perception information integration generated by silhouette elements that affect the perception of female suit in professional sense and preference evaluation.According to the addition and multiplication model in information integration,the paper also establishes an integration formula for perception information in sensory evaluation of garment silhouette.5)A system framework is also basically set up for silhouette recognition and matching of garment.The innovations of the paper are as follows:1)From research method,the paper uses behavioral experimental paradigm of Same-different Judgment to study the influence of the changes in silhouette elements that affect the perception on professional sense and preference evaluation.The paper also studies information integration manner in sensory evaluation of garment silhouette through perception changes.In this connection,the paper provides referential method for further study of perception information integration of color,silhouette and material texture in sensory evaluation of the garment,and also initiates new thought for sentimental garment design from cognitive psychology.2)From theoretical research,the paper does not simply confine perceptual research to the level of perception information but studies high-level information processing mechanism in sensory evaluation and proposes a perception information integration model suitable for garment silhouette,which suggests that weak fusion and strong fusion coexist in sensory evaluation of garment silhouette.3)From practical application,the paper uses computer graphics technology to basically set up a system framework for computer recognition and matching of garment silhouette,which lays a foundation for building computer vision system characterized by silhouette in future.