Peripheral Vision Lab
Students explore their peripheral vision.Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399 USA. All rights reserved.
Students explore their peripheral vision by reading large letters on index cards. Then they repeat the experiment while looking through camera lenses, first a lens with a smaller focal length and then a lens with a larger focal length. Then they complete a worksheet and explain how the experiment helps them solve the challenge question introduced in lesson 1 of this unit.
Engineers often want to create robots that mimic human behavior. To create "seeing" robots, they must thoroughly understand how human vision works. This activity helps students understand human peripheral vision and how peripheral vision changes when a person looks through a lens. The Grand Challenge introduced in lesson 1 involves a "seeing" robot with two lenses at different focal lengths as its "eyes."
After this activity, students should be able to:
- State the range of their peripheral vision.
- State the range of their peripheral vision through camera lenses with different focal lengths.
- Explain how this knowledge will help them work towards answering the Grand Challenge.