Visualizing Our Options for Coastal Places: Exploring Realistic Immersive Geovisualizations as Tools for Inclusive Approaches to Coastal Planning and Management

Newell, Robert; Canessa, Rosaline; Sharma, Tara

doi:10.3389/fmars.2017.00290

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“…This research follows two review-based studies that (respectively) uncover areas of convergence between place theory and applications of geovisualizations ( Newell and Canessa, 2015 ) and explore place-based considerations around building coastal geovisualizations ( Newell and Canessa, 2017a ). The findings from this study and the review-based work informed applied research on developing and employing a geovisualization of a particular coastal place located in the Capital Regional District of British Columbia, Canada ( Newell et al., 2017a , b ). Accordingly, this study focuses on residents living in coastal British Columbia, and it examines the place and visual relationships that said residents form with the local coastal environment.…”

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“…In the case of this research, some coastal users with particularly strong place dependence might ‘imagine’ coastal places from the perspective of being on a boat, and thus coastal geovisualizations should include options to examine scenarios from the boaters' perspective to better connect with the sense of place of these user groups. As noted in Background , this study has informed applied research on coastal geovisulizations, and following the findings of the study, an option for teleporting and experiencing scenarios from aboard a boat was built into a case study geovisualization developed through the applied work ( Newell et al., 2017b ).…”

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From sense of place to visualization of place: examining people-place relationships for insight on developing geovisualizations

Newell

Canessa

2018

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Effective resource planning incorporates people-place relationships, allowing these efforts to be inclusive of the different local beliefs, interests, activities and needs. ‘Geovisualizations’ can serve as potentially powerful tools for facilitating ‘place-conscious’ resource planning, as they can be developed with high degrees of realism and accuracy, allowing people to recognize and relate to them as ‘real places’. However, little research has been done on this potential, and the place-based applications of these visual tools are poorly understood. This study takes steps toward addressing this gap by exploring the relationship between sense of place and ‘visualization of place’. Residents of the Capital Regional District of BC, Canada, were surveyed about their relationship with local coastal places, concerns for the coast, and how they mentally visualize these places. Factor analysis identified four sense of place dimensions - nature protection values, community and economic well-being values, place identity and place dependence, and four coastal concerns dimensions - ecological, private opportunities, public space and boating impacts. Visualization data were coded and treated as dependent variables in a series of logistic regressions that used sense of place and coastal concerns dimensions as predictors. Results indicated that different aspects of sense of place and (to a lesser degree) concerns for places influence the types of elements people include in their mental visualization of place. In addition, sense of place influenced the position and perspective people assume in these visualizations. These findings suggest that key visual elements and perspectives speak to different place relationships, which has implications for developing and using geovisualizations in terms of what elements should be included in tools and (if appropriate) depicted as affected by potential management or development scenarios.

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From sense of place to visualization of place: examining people-place relationships for insight on developing geovisualizations

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Canessa

2018

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“…For example, the application ConfocalVR 16 allows multiple users to interact in a virtual space and this has shown to be beneficial for understanding cellular structure (Stefani et al, 2018). VR-enabled collaboration could also be used for policy making, as has been previously done for coastal management and planning when stakeholders used these visualizations to assess the potential outcome of marine conservation and sustainability projects (Newell et al, 2017). While viewing holographic microscope and Wirewalker data in the Brown CCV YURT, multiple users had access to the same 3D visualization simultaneously without the use of a HMD (see Supplementary Movie 6) and this led to lively conversation and interaction.…”

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Virtual Reality and Oceanography: Overview, Applications, and Perspective

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With the ongoing, exponential increase in ocean data from autonomous platforms, satellites, models, and in particular, the growing field of quantitative imaging, there arises a need for scalable and cost-efficient visualization tools to interpret these large volumes of data. With the recent proliferation of consumer grade head-mounted displays, the emerging field of virtual reality (VR) has demonstrated its benefit in numerous disciplines, ranging from medicine to archeology. However, these benefits have not received as much attention in the ocean sciences. Here, we summarize some of the ways that virtual reality has been applied to this field. We highlight a few examples in which we (the authors) demonstrate the utility of VR as a tool for ocean scientists. For oceanic datasets that are well-suited for three-dimensional visualization, virtual reality has the potential to enhance the practice of ocean science.

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“…In other words, the studies transform numbers first into a figure (diagram, flow chart), and then into symbols or even images, photographs that represent risks or impact (e.g. Burch et al, 2010;Eppler & Platts, 2009;Kask et al, 2018;Lovett et al, 2015;Newell et al, 2017). Over the years, the authors increasingly include the public in the development of the datasets and visuals, for example, by including them in the development of 3D visualizations for strategic tourism planning (STP) (see, for example, Kask et al, 2018, p. 375;Orenstein et al, 2015).…”

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Visualization in environmental policy and planning: a systematic review and research agenda

Metze

2020

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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Visualizations are increasingly important for environmental policy and planning. They have great impact on how we perceive environmental problems, their solutions, and if we consider policies legitimate. The systematic review in this paper brings together 20 years of studies in visualization in environmental policy and planning. This review shows that over the last two decades, more and more studies have demonstrated that visualization plays a role in data-communication, influences decision making, public perception, public participation, and knowledge cocreation. Based on the systematic review, three research lines are developed that aim to better take into account the challenges of a global and active public that through internet and social media is formed around environmental and planning issues. We can do this by (1) moving beyond a knowledge deficit model (2) pay more attention to the material dimensions of visualizations and their role in opening up spaces for cocreation, and (3) include the study of found images as these contain information on public sentiment, and are a form of public accountability.

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Visualizing Our Options for Coastal Places: Exploring Realistic Immersive Geovisualizations as Tools for Inclusive Approaches to Coastal Planning and Management

Cited by 16 publications

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From sense of place to visualization of place: examining people-place relationships for insight on developing geovisualizations

From sense of place to visualization of place: examining people-place relationships for insight on developing geovisualizations

Virtual Reality and Oceanography: Overview, Applications, and Perspective

Visualization in environmental policy and planning: a systematic review and research agenda

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