This report contains the edited proceedings of a symposium on the design and applications of three-dimensional displays. The symposium was held at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, D.C. on January 29, 1982. The symposium contained three parts. The first consisted of a series of five papers that discussed basic perceptual research on, and relating to, the design and use of three-dimensional displays. The second part of the symposium was a panel discussion on the topic: Critical Research Issues in 3-D Displays. The third and final part of the symposium was a discussion by a second panel of the topic: The Applicability of 3-D Display Research to Military Operational Needs.

Published in the year 1982, Visual Form Detection in Three-dimensional Space is a valuable contribution to the field of Cognitive Psychology.