Physiological indicators and subjective restorativeness with audio-visual interactions in urban soundscapes

Li, Zhongzhe; Ba, Meihui; Kang, Jian

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2021.103360

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“…This research tried to understand the impact of emotion-eliciting stimuli in space on environmental perception. Since environmental quality is beneficial to achieving a sustainable and communicative design ( Li et al, 2021 ), we relied on human subjective evaluation (HSE) of space, previously developed by Zawidzki (2016b) , to capture the association of normalized factors of spatial quality with chills, pleasure, arousal, and dominance in three films. Besides this, significant psychological feedback was also extracted by editing affect-based video clips with a potential valence-arousal feature ( Soleymani et al, 2009 ).…”

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Spatial stimuli in films: Uncovering the relationship between cognitive emotion and perceived environmental quality

2022

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ObjectivesThe research paper establishes the impact of spatial stimulus on human cognition and emotion by studying environmental events as cues to understand how people perceive spatial qualities. The medium of film to implement visually disruptive events was used in the research to find the relationship between the subjective evaluation of space and emotional responses.MethodNinety participants participated in watching three films showcasing unexpected spatial stimuli, thus impacting their psychological state. Standard questionnaires involving Aesthetic chills and The Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) model were used to capture emotional responses, and Normalized Accumulated Quality (NAQ) model was used to receive space quality assessments. The Pearson correlation coefficient was subsequently used to find the association of chills and The SAM with NAQ. Univariate and multivariate regression models were also conducted to find the impact of emotional responses on NAQ.ResultsA significant association of NAQ with chills (p-value: 0.001), pleasure (p-value <0.001), arousal (p-value: 0.016), and dominance (p-value: 0.015) was witnessed in film 1. In film 2, NAQ was significantly associated with pleasure (p-value <0.001), while in film 3, NAQ was highly associated with arousal (p-value: 0.043). According to the adjusted impact of variables on NAQ in film 1, significant impacts of chills (p-value: 0.028), arousal (p-value: 0.117), pleasure (p-value <0.001), and dominance (p-value: 0.113) on NAQ were observed. In film 2, pleasure (p-value <0.001) and dominance (p-value: 0.113) impacted NAQ using the univariate model, while only pleasure had an impact on NAQ in the multivariate model. In film 3, arousal was the only variable to impact NAQ (p-value: 0.043) in a univariate model. In regression analyses, higher slopes were witnessed for models in film 1.ConclusionThe experiment highlighted that using affect-based video clips can help us capture the relationship between emotional responses and perceived quality of space. The appearance of spatial stimuli can engage learning, expectation, and attention, leading to a superior improvement of cognitive ability and mental health in space. This level of understanding can help design a more sustainable place.

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Spatial stimuli in films: Uncovering the relationship between cognitive emotion and perceived environmental quality

2022

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“…Electrodermal activity (EDA) and HR are widely used to assess the physiological response to sound stimuli and are suggested as sensitive indicators for evaluating the impact of sounds [ 23 , 24 , 25 ]. The EDA was measured using two electrodes (HKR-11, range: 100 to 2500 kΩ; accuracy: 2.5 kΩ; sample frequency: 50 Hz) attached to the subject’s index and middle fingers of the non-dominant hand.…”

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Research on the Effects of Soundscapes on Human Psychological Health in an Old Community of a Cold Region

Cui

Xia

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IJERPH

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The acoustic environment of residential areas is critical to the health of the residents. To reveal the impact of the acoustic environment on people’s mental health and create a satisfactory acoustic setting, this study took a typical old residential area in Harbin as an example, conducted a field measurement and questionnaire survey on it, and took typical acoustic sources as the research object for human body index measurement. The relationship between heart rate (HR), skin conductivity level (SCL), physiological indicators, semantic differences (SD), and psychological indicators was studied. The sound distribution in the old community was obtained, determining that gender, age, and education level are significant factors producing different sound source evaluations. Music can alleviate residents’ psychological depression, while traffic sounds and residents’ psychological state can affect the satisfaction evaluation of the sound environment. There is a significant correlation between the physiological and psychological changes produced by different sounds. Pleasant sounds increase a person’s HR and decrease skin conductivity. The subjects’ HR increased 3.24 times per minute on average, and SCL decreased 1.65 times per minute on average in relation to hearing various sound sources. The SD evaluation showed that lively, pleasant, and attractive birdsongs and music produced the greatest HR and SCL changes, and that the sound barrier works best when placed 8 m and 18 m from the road.

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“…The human perception of architecture and built environment affects the emotional and physiological states of their immediate surroundings originating from the impact of sensory stimuli in space ( Homolja et al, 2020 ). This perception is not generated by a sole isolated sense ( Li et al, 2021 ); Instead, various sensory organs notice the environment’s physical characteristics and incorporate the physical information with multimodal perception to shape the so-called bottom-up cognitive process ( Kayser and Logothetis, 2007 ). This cognitive process is then proved to be coordinated by emotion and human behavior ( Talsma et al, 2010 ), consequently forming subjective perceptual experience ( Choi et al, 2018 ).…”

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“…These sensory features associated with sensation felt from the architectural space characteristics (e.g., color, light, sounds, or textures) can engage the arousal level of human perception ( Lang, 1988 ; Nasar, 1997 ; Sanoff, 2016 ; Cho and Kim, 2017 ). The physiological responses from emotional arousal ( Kreibig, 2010 ) help detect auditory and visual signals in the environment and lead to the activation of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), which include both sympathetic (SNS) and parasympathetic (PNS) nervous systems ( Li et al, 2021 ). The SNS activates in response to stress, while the PNS maintains the balance after the occurrence of stress ( Li et al, 2021 ).…”

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Assessing the association between subjective evaluation of space qualities and physiological responses through cinematic environments’ emotion-eliciting stimuli

Sakhaei

Gu²,

Looha³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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ObjectivesHuman perception of the built environment affects emotional and physiological states. This research focused on the association between evaluating a space’s visual qualities and physiological responses by mediating film contents to indicate the association between physiological indicators and assessing the quality of space in the presence of environmental stimuli.MethodData collection was conducted using a psychological questionnaire and physiological indicators of heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP), skin resistance level (SRL), and body temperature (BT) during the film screening. The ANOVA was conducted to compare different variables in the three films alongside linear regression to analyze the impact of variables on space quality. Spearman correlation coefficient analyses were performed to find the association between variables.ResultsThe descriptive statistics showed significant changes in psychological and physiological variables in films. Associations between the NAQ factor and physiological changes in HR, SBP, and DBP factors were significant. The results derived from the simple and multiple linear regressions depicted the significant impact of physiological factors on HR and BP on perceiving the quality of space.ConclusionIt was concluded that physiological changes caused by emotional arousal could be strongly associated with psychological assessments. Stimuli-affected video contents illustrating architectural spaces could efficiently extract the impact of physiological states and human cognitive responses to the space quality. Physiological characteristics related to the space appraisal could help realize the human-environment interaction in a multi-layered approach to the built environment and spatial cognition.

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Physiological indicators and subjective restorativeness with audio-visual interactions in urban soundscapes

Cited by 43 publications

References 103 publications

Spatial stimuli in films: Uncovering the relationship between cognitive emotion and perceived environmental quality

Spatial stimuli in films: Uncovering the relationship between cognitive emotion and perceived environmental quality

Research on the Effects of Soundscapes on Human Psychological Health in an Old Community of a Cold Region

Assessing the association between subjective evaluation of space qualities and physiological responses through cinematic environments’ emotion-eliciting stimuli

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