Urban explorers
- Date
1996
- Summary
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The modern city is a complex maze of choices and decisions. This program describes the brain's empirical approach to finding sense amid confusion. Subconscious methods of information gathering, including visual scanning to find goods in a supermarket and direction finding while traversing an urban environment, are analyzed. In addition, the natural human ability to learn by trial and error is observed, emphasizing the concept of "natural mapping" and the importance of feedback.
- Contributors
Percival, Dan; Klein, Leanne; Lawson, Denis
- Publishers
Wall to Wall Television; Channel Four (Great Britain); Learning Channel (Firm); ITEL (Firm); Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
- Genre
Educational television programs
- Subjects
Science, Technology; Science, Technology; City dwellers -- Psychology; City and town life -- Psychological aspects; Learning, Psychology of; Feedback (Psychology)
- Locations
North America; United States; New Jersey
- Collection
Films@UM
- Unit
Distinctive Media Collections
- Language
English
- Rights Statement
- In Copyright
- Terms of Use
Access is restricted to patrons at the University of Maryland.
- Physical Description
25 minutes; color
- Notes
Access
Access condition: campus-only.
Creation/Production Credits
Series producer, Leanne Klein ; director, Daniel Percival ; film editor, Anna Ksiezopolska ; photographer, Brian McDairmant ; music, Paul Englishby ; series consultant, Stanton Newman ; research, Patricia Dunnett. Narrator, Denis Lawson.
- Other Identifiers
Filename: lms-089693; Fedora 2 PID: umd:10698; Handle Identifier: hdl:1903.1/3173; Catalog Key: alephsys004131208; OCLC: ocn606925388
Access Restrictions
This item is accessible by: collection staff, users in specific IP Ranges.