Study on the Evaluation of Impression in Streetscapes in Algeria and Japan Using Kansei Engineering

Abstract

This study aims to explore the semantic attributes of a dataset composed of 74 streetscape images collected in Algeria and Japan. Authors collected and evaluated human judgmental responses using SD method as a tool of Kansei engineering in order to provide information about human perception of the visual attributes of the collected images. The research process included: (1) Semantic selection of bipolar adjective pairs. (2) Psychological evaluation of the visual stimuli using a questionnaire of 40 adjectives presented in French and Japanese. (3) Semantic evaluation of the participants' rating using factor analysis, cluster analysis and analysis of variance (ANOVA). The results showed that: (1) The semantic space was described by three independent axes which explained 79.80% of the variability. (2) Low correlation between the impressions of Algerian and Japanese participants in both Algerian and Japanese streetscapes. (3) Differences in the distribution of responses among the 7-point scale and also in the number of axes. And (4) Gender differences showed small differences in the axis of activity that represent less than 0.74% of explained variance.

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Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) [Volume 2]

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