Gaze, Framing & Attention

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Abstractions about how looking, framing, and unmet knowledge shape perception and meaning, including gaze as a social and interpretive act (gaze, female gaze, eye contact effect), and frameworks for how language or need directs attention (terministic screen, information need).

5 abstractions in this family — domain-specific abstractions that sit near one another in structural-signature space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its short description.

• Eye contact effect — Task- and context-dependent change in attention or social cognition when another face appears to make direct eye contact.
• Female gaze — An interpretive and creative framework representing women as agents and subjects through the spectator's, character's, or creator's gaze rather than as passive objects.
• Gaze — Positioned looking or being seen that shapes how a person is interpreted or made socially visible.
• Information Need — Represent the situated gap between what an actor currently knows and what the actor must know to interpret, decide, or act, allowing the gap to evolve from unarticulated unease into a formal question and system-facing query.
• Terministic Screen — A Burkean vocabulary-centered frame in which terms simultaneously reflect, select, and deflect reality, organizing attention, attitude, motive, and symbolic action.