Interactions between landscape elements and tranquility evaluation based on eye tracking experiments

Ren, Xinxin; Kang, Jian

doi:10.1121/1.4934955

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“…More specifically, such attributes (so called "basic" or "preattentive" features) are available in a primary stage of vision and they are able to guide the selective visual attention process in a "bottom-up" way [63]. Additionally, the drawn of attention in specific buildings or infrastructures (e.g., with different shapes than others) during the observation of different landscapes has also been observed in previous studies (e.g., [64]). Eventually, the examination of the produced heatmaps indicates that observers are able to detect multiple actions that may be presented in a UAV video (e.g., an action of a group of pedestrian when a main human object is presented in a scene).…”

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Monitoring Human Visual Behavior during the Observation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Videos

Krassanakis

Silva

Ricordel

2018

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The present article describes an experimental study towards the examination of human visual behavior during the observation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) videos. Experimental performance is based on the collection and the quantitative & qualitative analysis of eye tracking data. The results highlight that UAV flight altitude serves as a dominant specification that affects the visual attention process, while the presence of sky in the video background seems to be the less affecting factor in this procedure. Additionally, the main surrounding environment, the main size of the observed object as well as the main perceived angle between UAV’s flight plain and ground appear to have an equivalent influence in observers’ visual reaction during the exploration of such stimuli. Moreover, the provided heatmap visualizations indicate the most salient locations in the used UAVs videos. All produced data (raw gaze data, fixation and saccade events, and heatmap visualizations) are freely distributed to the scientific community as a new dataset (EyeTrackUAV) that can be served as an objective ground truth in future studies.

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Monitoring Human Visual Behavior during the Observation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Videos

Krassanakis

Silva

Ricordel

2018

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“…Another study indicated that the presence of music can prolong the duration of stay in a tunnel when compared with silence, and classical music caused the longest duration of stay ( Aletta et al, 2016 ). It has also been found that in the case of sound stimulation in the audio–visual environment of the countryside, study participants’ gazing range was demonstrated to be significantly more dispersed than when no sound stimulation was present ( Ren and Kang, 2015 ). Previous studies have mainly focused on the effect of the sound environment on one’s action ( Zakariya et al, 2014 ; Aletta et al, 2016 ; Lepore et al, 2016 ).…”

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Influence of Music on the Behaviors of Crowd in Urban Open Public Spaces

2018

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Sound environment plays an important role in urban open spaces, yet studies on the effects of perception of the sound environment on crowd behaviors have been limited. The aim of this study, therefore, is to explore how music, which is considered an important soundscape element, affects crowd behaviors in urban open spaces. On-site observations were performed at a 100 m × 70 m urban leisure square in Harbin, China. Typical music was used to study the effects of perception of the sound environment on crowd behaviors; then, these behaviors were classified into movement (passing by and walking around) and non-movement behaviors (sitting). The results show that the path of passing by in an urban leisure square with music was more centralized than without music. Without music, 8.3% of people passing by walked near the edge of the square, whereas with music, this percentage was zero. In terms of the speed of passing by behavior, no significant difference was observed with the presence or absence of background music. Regarding the effect of music on walking around behavior in the square, the mean area and perimeter when background music was played were smaller than without background music. The mean speed of those exhibiting walking around behavior with background music in the square was 0.296 m/s slower than when no background music was played. For those exhibiting sitting behavior, when background music was not present, crowd density showed no variation based on the distance from the sound source. When music was present, it was observed that as the distance from the sound source increased, crowd density of those sitting behavior decreased accordingly.

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“…the matching phenomenon of audiovisual information (Ren and Kang, 2015b), where the untidy 247 family houses scene moderated the uncomfortable audio perception of the artificial sound (house 248 repair sound). 249…”

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Effects of soundscape on rural landscape evaluations

Ren

Kang

Zhu

et al. 2018

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

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The present study analyses the effects of soundscape on rural landscape evaluations, 8including landscape visual aesthetic quality (VAQ), landscape tranquility and landscape 9preference, based on audiovisual information collected in typical rural villages using the methods 10 of an audiovisual experiment and eye-tracking test. First, the results showed the landscape 11 evaluations influenced by different soundscapes are significantly different. Generally, the 12 evaluation scores with natural or musical sounds were higher, and for positive landscapes, the 13 difference among different sounds is greater than that for negative landscapes. Moreover, the 14 landscape evaluations could be enhanced by sound stimuli, including natural or artificial 15 soundscapes and for both positive and negative landscapes. Third, soundscapes can also 16 modulate the effects of landscape elements on landscape evaluations. No-vegetation ground, 17vegetation, mountains, the sky, and water were found to be significant landscape elements that 18influence landscape evaluations with sound stimuli, and in particular, the landscape evaluations 19 could be substantially decreased by particular disturbing elements together with artificial sounds. 20

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Interactions between landscape elements and tranquility evaluation based on eye tracking experiments

Cited by 44 publications

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Monitoring Human Visual Behavior during the Observation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Videos

Monitoring Human Visual Behavior during the Observation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Videos

Influence of Music on the Behaviors of Crowd in Urban Open Public Spaces

Effects of soundscape on rural landscape evaluations

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