How do shared-street design and traffic restriction improve urban soundscape and human experience? —An online survey with virtual reality

Jiang, Like; Masullo, Massimiliano; Maffei, Luigi; Meng, Fanyu; Vorländer, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.07.005

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“…The first of our research objectives was to test the use of virtual models in evaluating design proposals for achieving access to blue spaces (within the size range represented as "urban acupuncture"). Judging by the content of the comments, we found that people participating in the experiment were often willing to look beyond visualisation accuracy, contrary to the feedback received by Jiang et al [59] in their study where the quality of the visualisation and sound was heavily commented. They were also able to judge designs at the real landscape scale and they also showed their understanding of the accommodation capacity of each design.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…A major concern, still not adequately addressed, is the issue of application in real-life planning and participation situations where VR is used as a tool to define design and planning solutions through informed participation en masse [40,41,[54][55][56]. However, some examples of research where design alternatives have been evaluated with the help of the wider public do exist, covering transportation infrastructure [57][58][59][60][61] solutions and green space planning [62,63]. By developing and presenting different design options in a structured way (where all the variables are controlled) differences between options can be identified as being related to specific aspects of the designs as opposed to random environmental factors (such as the effect of image lighting).…”

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Urban Blue Acupuncture: An Experiment on Preferences for Design Options Using Virtual Models

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Within the BlueHealth project, funded under the Horizon 2020 European Union research framework, a number of targeted experimental design interventions created in virtual reality (VR) were used to test the effect and impact of planning and design on encouraging people to use various blue spaces. A set of designs in three different coastal landscape types—a cliff/steep slope; a sandy beach and an area of reed beds—located in Tallinn, Estonia, were used as the sites for nine different intervention designs. The designs were based on a combination of the site features and inspirations from solutions found in different locations internationally. Using 3D modelling and a Virtual Reality system, a set of nine videos, one to depict each intervention, was created and shown to a quota sample of 252 Estonian residents. Respondents were asked a set of questions associated with each option. The results were analysed statistically and qualitatively. The results uncovered key preferences for designs and revealed differences among age groups and the levels of personal interconnection with nature. However, there were problems associated with the interpretation and understanding of some of the options by some of the people due to the degree of realism of the VR representations, which may have affected the results. The project shows that VR could be a useful tool for testing design ideas as part of public participation approaches but that care is needed in ensuring that viewers understand what they are assessing.

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Urban Blue Acupuncture: An Experiment on Preferences for Design Options Using Virtual Models

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“…In order to unequivocally state that the idea of the developed system is correct, some research should be carried out to confirm or contradict the thesis that virtual reality can be used in the process of smart designing and evaluating of lighting [49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61]. Initially, the decision was made to use the indoor scene for testing.…”

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Virtual Reality System and Scientific Visualisation for Smart Designing and Evaluating of Lighting

Krupiński

2020

Energies

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The current lighting solutions, both in terms of design process and later implementation, are becoming more and more intelligent. It mainly arises from higher opportunities to use information technology (IT) processes for these purposes. Designs cover many aspects, from physiological to including technical. The paper describes the problems faced by any designers while creating, evaluating them, and presenting the final results of their work in a visualisation form. Development of virtual reality (VR) technology and augmented reality, which is now taking place before our eyes, makes us inclined to think how to use this reality in lighting technology. The article presents some examples of applying VR technology in various types of smart lighting designs, for interiors and outdoor objects. The performed computer simulations are compared to reality. Some surveys, in terms of visualization rendering, were carried out. In the article, the current capabilities and main limitations of virtual reality of lighting are discussed, as well as what can be expected in the future. The luminance analysis of the virtual reality display is carried out, which shows that this equipment can be used in lighting technology after the appropriate calibration. Moreover, an innovative lighting design system based on virtual reality is presented.

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“…For visual rendering, many studies used non-HMD options. Some of them adopted non-immersive methods, such as a monitor screen [8,19,45,[67][68][69], visual screen [70] and 2D projection [71,72]. Some of the studies utilized the immersive Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) system [65,73].…”

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Ecological Validity of Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) Techniques for the Perception of Urban Sound Environments

Oberman

Aletta

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Acoustics

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Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) is a simulated technology used to deliver multisensory information to people under different environmental conditions. When IVR is generally applied in urban planning and soundscape research, it reveals attractive possibilities for the assessment of urban sound environments with higher immersion for human participation. In virtual sound environments, various topics and measures are designed to collect subjective responses from participants under simulated laboratory conditions. Soundscape or noise assessment studies during virtual experiences adopt an evaluation approach similar to in situ methods. This paper aims to review the approaches that are utilized to assess the ecological validity of IVR for the perception of urban sound environments and the necessary technologies during audio–visual reproduction to establish a dynamic IVR experience that ensures ecological validity. The review shows that, through the use of laboratory tests including subjective response surveys, cognitive performance tests and physiological responses, the ecological validity of IVR can be assessed for the perception of urban sound environments. The reproduction system with head-tracking functions synchronizing spatial audio and visual stimuli (e.g., head-mounted displays (HMDs) with first-order Ambisonics (FOA)-tracked binaural playback) represents the prevailing trend to achieve high ecological validity. These studies potentially contribute to the outcomes of a normalized evaluation framework for subjective soundscape and noise assessments in virtual environments.

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How do shared-street design and traffic restriction improve urban soundscape and human experience? —An online survey with virtual reality

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Cited by 45 publications

References 36 publications

Urban Blue Acupuncture: An Experiment on Preferences for Design Options Using Virtual Models

Urban Blue Acupuncture: An Experiment on Preferences for Design Options Using Virtual Models

Virtual Reality System and Scientific Visualisation for Smart Designing and Evaluating of Lighting

Ecological Validity of Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) Techniques for the Perception of Urban Sound Environments

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