Architectural experience: Clarifying its central components and their relation to core affect with a set of first-person-view videos

Gregorians, Lara; Velasco, Pablo; Zisch, Fiona; Spiers, Hugo J.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101841

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“…Emotional states were characterized not only by subjective evaluation but also through data collected from the brain (electroencephalography marker of arousal), electrodermal activity (EDA), and heart rate variability (HRV). Some studies suggest that the "affective charge" of spaces is important for way nding: environments with strong emotional associations are more memorable, negatively-laden landmarks are associated with improved way nding performance and recognition and positively-laden landmarks and high arousing landmarks are linked to enhanced route drawing abilities (Gregorians et al 2022). Moreover, this might align with research indicating that the presence of safety range may serve as a protective factor against the recurrence of getting lost in AD patients (Kwok et al 2010).…”

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confidence: 78%

The impact of urban environment on spatial navigation in elderly people with mild cognitive impairment

Santos-Rocha,

Bonifácio,

Almeida

et al. 2024

Preprint

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Spatial cognition deficits are particularly prevalent in early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and in individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). Previous research using simplistic virtual reality (VR) settings was able to show such navigation impairments. However, the degree to which such results apply to more naturalistic environments remains unknown. Our study aims to test the hypothesis that spatial navigation in an elderly population with MCI could be improved by re-designing an urban space. Twenty-five MCI patients and a similar group of age- and gender-matched controls will be recruited to perform an urban spatial navigation VR task (uSNT). The uSNT is a modified version of the well-known virtual supermarket paradigm (designed to assess both egocentric and allocentric orientation processes), but the VR environment will be a real neighborhood of Lisbon. Specific interventions will be performed to various key parameters (street-level complexity, land-use, design, and green areas) and potential confounding elements (colors, textures, street occupation) of the urban scenario. Furthermore, eye tracking and electroencephalography data will be collected. Details of our task design and methodological approach to compare the navigation performance of both groups will be provided. In the future, we expect that the urban (re-)design interventions will positively impact on the navigation performance of MCI participants, being a clear proof-of-principle, that customize urban planning/design is key to enhance the autonomy and quality of life of such patients. Additionally, this research will establish the feasibility of replicating experimental conditions and ensuring consistency across different studies and subjects.

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confidence: 78%

The impact of urban environment on spatial navigation in elderly people with mild cognitive impairment

Santos-Rocha,

Bonifácio,

Almeida

et al. 2024

Preprint

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“…Among promising investigations into quantifying beauty, another related approach measures the three factors: coherence, fascination, and hominess (Coburn et al, 2020;Gregorians et al, 2022). Originally introduced in a study of how architectural interiors affect neurological responses, this idea is now being applied to evaluate exteriors, and, more importantly, to study the dynamic effects of moving through a scene.…”

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AI, the beauty of places, and the metaverse: beyond “geometrical fundamentalism”

Lavdas

Mehaffy

Salingaros

2023

ARIN

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As the tech world moves increasingly toward an AI-generated virtual universe — the so-called “metaverse” — new paradigms define the impacts of this technology on its human users. AI and VR, like the Internet before them, offer both remarkable opportunities and pitfalls. Virtual Reality constitutes a new kind of human environment, and experiencing it relies upon human neurological mechanisms evolved to negotiate — and survive in — our ancestral physical environments. Despite the unrestricted freedom of designing the virtual universe, interacting with it is affected strongly by the body’s built-in physiological and psychological constraints. The eventual success of the metaverse will be determined by how successfully its designers manage to accommodate unconscious mechanisms of emotional attachment and wellbeing. Some fundamental misunderstandings coming from antiquated design models have influenced virtual environmental structures. It is likely that those design decisions may be handicapping the metaverse’s ultimate appeal and utility.

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“…Depending on the nature of the synthetic content, this is either defined as dynamic or static (Marín-Morales et al, 2018). Dynamic content allows the participant to interact with it and explore, while static content present passive stimuli such as photographs or sounds (Kuliga et al, 2015;Gregorians et al, 2022;Marín-Morales et al, 2018).…”

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“…What these methods lack is the recreation of walking and exploring when inside a building. This study is motivated by the works that consider the temporal dimension in architectural experience (Gregorians et al, 2022, Marín-Morales et al, 2018 and immersive media studies, assessing the importance of situated presence in eliciting emotions (Riva et al, 2007, Kuliga et al, 2015.…”

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Eliciting and Annotating Emotion in Virtual Spaces

Xylakis,

Najm,

Liapis

et al. 2023

eCAADe Proceedings

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We propose an online methodology where moment-to-moment affect annotations are gathered while exploring and visually interacting with virtual environments. For this task we developed an application to support this methodology, targeting both a VR and a desktop experience, and conducted a study to evaluate these two media of display. Results show that in terms of usability, both experiences were perceived equally positive. Presence was rated significantly higher for the VR experience, while participant ratings indicated a tendency for medium distraction during the annotation process. Additionally, effects between the architectural design elements were identified with perceived pleasure. The strengths and limitations of the proposed approach are highlighted to ground further work in gathering affect data in immersive and interactive media within the context of architectural appraisal.

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Architectural experience: Clarifying its central components and their relation to core affect with a set of first-person-view videos

Cited by 14 publications

References 78 publications

The impact of urban environment on spatial navigation in elderly people with mild cognitive impairment

The impact of urban environment on spatial navigation in elderly people with mild cognitive impairment

AI, the beauty of places, and the metaverse: beyond “geometrical fundamentalism”

Eliciting and Annotating Emotion in Virtual Spaces

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