Dynamic Simulations of Urban Environments

Bosselmann, Peter

doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-1140-7_11

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“…Also, environmental simulation techniques for estimating people's responses to potential environmental changes were used in several community planning situations (Lawrence, 1987;Marans & Stokols, 1993). For instance, the Berkeley Environmental Simulation Laboratory (Appleyard & Craik, 1978), which features a computer-guided telescopic camera (and provides realistic simulated tours, by use of a television monitor, through scale models of urban areas), was used to evaluate alternative zoning and urban design plans for San Francisco and New York City (Bosselmann, 1993). Finally, postoccupancy evaluation (POE) techniques were used to assess people's reactions to newly designed or renovated buildings, parks, and public plazas (Carr, Francis, Rivlin, & Stone, 1992;Preiser, 1989;Zeisel, 1981).…”

Section: Applications Of Environment and Behavior Research To Communimentioning

confidence: 99%

The paradox of environmental psychology.

Stokols¹

1995

American Psychologist

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Section: Applications Of Environment and Behavior Research To Communimentioning

confidence: 99%

The paradox of environmental psychology.

Stokols¹

1995

American Psychologist

132

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“…The use of photographs as environmental surrogates is widely practised in landscape scenic assessment [15], with many studies suggesting that judgments based on photographs are highly correlated with on site judgements of the same area using rating scales [16][17][18][19] or other response formats [20,21].…”

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Beach users’ aesthetic and economic evaluation of a “minor change” to the hard engineering coastal defences at Wiseman’s Bridge, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Blakemore

Burrell

Jones

2008

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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This study evaluated the visual impact of the new hard engineering coastal defences at Wiseman's Bridge, Pembrokeshire, Wales. This beach had existing hard coastal defences, road, car park and dwellings, which may have lead planners' to believe that the change would not impact upon beach users' enjoyment.However, a change in coastal scenery was expressed by 79% of those surveyed, using the perceptual approach, whilst the beach classification was unaffected using two checklist models. The beach is primarily utilised by families for children's play and to enjoy the surroundings. Nearly half of the beach users had concerns with regard to the new coastal defences and were willing to pay (£1.62 per visit) to fund alternative defence methods for the remaining shoreline. A fifth of respondents were willing to pay (£1.91 per visit) for the new defences to be removed and replaced with a more natural method of sea defence. The preferred payment mode in both cases was a car parking fee. Thus, this study has found that even apparently minor changes in scenery impact markedly upon the recreational enjoyment and valuation of the beach experience.

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“…The basis for the evaluation of realism in a simulation is a comparison of responses to real places and simulated places (Bosselman, 1993). The aim of the present study therefore is to compare environmental evaluation and cognitive mapping performance in a real-world environment with those in an accurate computer simulation of that environment.…”

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Virtual Laboratories: Comparability of Real and Virtual Environments for Environmental Psychology

Kort

IJsselsteijn

Kooijman

et al. 2003

Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments

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Virtual environments have the potential to become important new research tools in environment behavior research. They could even become the future (virtual) laboratories, if reactions of people to virtual environments are similar to those in real environments. The present study is an exploration of the comparability of research findings in real and virtual environments. In the study, 101 participants explored an identical space, either in reality or in a computer-simulated environment. Additionally, the presence of plants in the space was manipulated, resulting in a 2 (environment) ϫ 2 (plants) between-subjects design. Employing a broad set of measurements, we found mixed results. Performances on size estimations and a cognitive mapping task were significantly better in the real environment. Factor analyses of bipolar adjectives indicated that, although four dimensions were similar for both environments, a fifth dimension of environmental assessment-termed arousal-was absent in the virtual environment. In addition, we found significant differences on the scores of four of the scales. However, no significant interactions appeared between environment and plants. Experience of and behavior in virtual environments have similarities to that in real environments, but there are important differences as well. We conclude that this is not only a necessary, but also a very interesting research subject for environmental psychology.

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Dynamic Simulations of Urban Environments

Cited by 10 publications

References 9 publications

The paradox of environmental psychology.

The paradox of environmental psychology.

Beach users’ aesthetic and economic evaluation of a “minor change” to the hard engineering coastal defences at Wiseman’s Bridge, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Virtual Laboratories: Comparability of Real and Virtual Environments for Environmental Psychology

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