Virtualism

Seeing before reading

We see documents before we read them: this initial encounter evokes an aesthetic response but one with immediate practical consequences. Since seeing precedes reading, the reader’s first glance influences the information processing that follows. The balanced arrangement of visual elements on the page, the contrast among these elements, the efficient use of space—together these create a unified visual display that predisposes the reader to respond favorably (or unfavorably) to the information in the document.

Gifted people have a preference for visual spatial thinking because it faster and most powerful than auditory sequential thinking. visual-spatial thinking is approximately eight times faster than auditory thinking. It is rich, textured, creative, problem finding and problem solving. 

The implementation of a virtual experience in government could then in fact return greater results amongst those that are able to visualize and create solutions in a more dynamically open ended environment.