Exploring the use of immersive virtual reality to assess occupants’ productivity and comfort in workplaces: An experimental study on the role of walls colour

Latini, Arianna; Giuseppe, Elisa Di; D’Orazio, Marco; Perna, Costanzo Di

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111508

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“…Although the evaluation of the 3D landscape design effect not only includes concentrated areas of green and blue, but gray in the glass curtain wall, with a strong sense of science and technology, the above three colors are typical representatives of low carbon emission and play a boosting role in the quantitative and qualitative research of green and low carbon. This is consistent with the research results of Kim 2021) who used VR technology for the visualized analysis of human and animal sensory recognition in the fields of environment, color, and carbon emission [61][62][63]. Moreover, this research also has some limitations.…”

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Effects of Low-Carbon Visualizations in Landscape Design Based on Virtual Eye-Movement Behavior Preference

Lin

Wang

et al. 2022

Land

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Three-dimensional geovisualization in landscape design can be used to evaluate the efforts of mitigating CO2 emissions. This study evaluated subjects’ emotional preferences for 3D landscape design through an eye movement tracking experiment. In the case that the color of the building materials was positively correlated with low carbon emissions, green, blue, and gray were typical representatives of low carbon emissions. Through the eye movement tracking experiment, subjects’ emotional preferences for different building colors were obtained. The results show that the fixation trajectory is consistent with the preset green and energy saving parameters, and the design effect of the architectural landscape can be evaluated by detecting virtual eye movement tracking. There is a coupling relationship between virtual eye movement tracking, expert interviews, and evaluation results, so that it presents a logical relationship between virtual eye movement, the color of low-carbon materials, and carbon emissions. In addition, the affective preference analysis and entropy weight method confirmed their effectiveness in the evaluation of the 3D landscape design effect, which had a positive impact on the CO2 emission reduction of the construction industry. These results will contribute to the development of 3D landscape design in the architecture industry and provide new ideas and methods for the carbon peak project.

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Effects of Low-Carbon Visualizations in Landscape Design Based on Virtual Eye-Movement Behavior Preference

Lin

Wang

et al. 2022

Land

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“…1. analyzing people's perception of the visual environment considering different parameters (e.g., multiple façade patterns, sky type, and window size) [39,[44][45][46][47][48], 2. assessing the correlation between lighting temperatures and occupants' thermal perception [49,50] and 3. analyzing users behavior in different conditions of light and control systems [51][52][53]. In recent years, utilizing Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR) ,and VR have been increased in building science to make complex building information more comprehensible .…”

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Evaluation of Occupants’ Visual Perception in Day Lit Scenes: A Virtual Reality Experiment

Mirdamadi

Zomorodian

Tahsildoost

2023

Journal of Daylighting

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Daylight improves indoor environmental quality, the physical and mental health of occupants, and their efficiency. Research in the area of human-centric lighting that considers the visual and non-visual effects of light on human vision, have focused on examining human visual perception in response to a wide variety of lighting aspects. To investigate the effect of surface materials, window size, and shading patterns on participants’ evaluation of brightness, daylight distribution, contrast, and satisfaction with view, a virtual reality experiment is implemented in a university classroom. Moreover, responses are compared with metrics (i.e., RAMMG and illumines level) to evaluate their performance and robustness. Thirty-three subjects evaluated thirteen immersive virtual environments (IVEs) with different glazing visible light transmittance, reflectance coefficient of surfaces, window to wall ratio, number of windows, and shading geometry using a Likert-type scale survey. The results indicated that participants’ evaluation of brightness is influenced by reflection coefficient of the surfaces and WWR. While daylight distribution is affected by number of windows and shading geometry in addition to other studied parameters. Based on the subjects’ responses the contrast is only affected by reflection coefficient of the surfaces. Their satisfaction with amount of outside view is also influenced by WWR and number of windows. Moreover, based on statistical results defining a specific range of acceptable contrast based on the RAMMG metric is not suggested, and users' evaluation depends on the surface material in addition to the reflection coefficient of them. Furthermore, the level of lighting perceived by people is affected by materials and their color (beside the reflection coefficient of the surfaces), number of windows (even with similar WWR), and shading pattern (even with the same aperture ratio) as well as the glazing visible light transmittance.

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“…Recently, researchers adopted VR to study NBS thanks to its many advantages as a low-cost and flexible solution that facilitates the collection of complex data in highly realistic one-to-one environments [50]. VR and Immersive Virtual Environments (IVE) are valid means to simulate alternative design configurations, without the limitation of laboratory-based studies [51]. Researchers and professionals are then supported to improve the integration of the «human dimension» from the early design stages, for example, to measure end-user behaviour, collect feedback in real-time, and improve communication for a better understanding of the project via multisensory 3D environments [52].…”

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“…However previous validation studies confirmed the reliability and effectiveness of VR as a research tool in this domain (e.g., Refs. [51,52,65,66]).…”

Section: Using Virtual Reality To Assess the Benefits Of Biophilic De...mentioning

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Effects of Biophilic Design Interventions on University Students' Cognitive Performance: An Audio-Visual Experimental Study in an Immersive Virtual Office Environment

Latini,

Torresin,

Oberman

et al. 2023

SSRN Journal

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Exploring the use of immersive virtual reality to assess occupants’ productivity and comfort in workplaces: An experimental study on the role of walls colour

Cited by 37 publications

References 51 publications

Effects of Low-Carbon Visualizations in Landscape Design Based on Virtual Eye-Movement Behavior Preference

Effects of Low-Carbon Visualizations in Landscape Design Based on Virtual Eye-Movement Behavior Preference

Evaluation of Occupants’ Visual Perception in Day Lit Scenes: A Virtual Reality Experiment

Effects of Biophilic Design Interventions on University Students' Cognitive Performance: An Audio-Visual Experimental Study in an Immersive Virtual Office Environment

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