Urban Design
Esmat Paikan; Mohammad Reza Pourjafar; Ehsan Ranjbar
Abstract
The environment can cause positive and negative emotions in citizens. The main part of the importance of emotions is due to the impact on people's behaviors. because emotions is one of the main components of social behavior, and the extraction of emotional responses is one of the best ways to understand ...
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The environment can cause positive and negative emotions in citizens. The main part of the importance of emotions is due to the impact on people's behaviors. because emotions is one of the main components of social behavior, and the extraction of emotional responses is one of the best ways to understand different fields of experience and perception.Nowadays, mental health problems and the emphasis on increasing social interactions have led to more and more attention to the subject of emotions, but among the studies, the impact of physical-spatial factors has received less attention.The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of physical-spatial measures of urban street on emotional responses of pedestrians, by placing the person in a pseudo-real environment. On the other hand, this study makes possible the use of a new neural measurement tool in urban studies and evaluates its accuracy. The present study has been performed experimentally by simulating 18 tests of different types of urban streets. Two methods of personal reporting (SAM) and electroencephalography (EEG) were selected to measure emotion. After confirming the data extracted from 50 subjects by General Health (GHQ) and Stroop test, data analysis was performed by quantitative-statistical method.The results show the shape and form of the street, the size and c enclosure of the street space, the presence of a spatial and physical element that creates attention and emphasis in the street, permeability in the spatial structure of the street, rotation along the street and perspective change along the path, two and three-dimensional wall street rhythms, the shape and form of the corners of the street intersection, all affect on the levels of emotional pleasure, arousal and control. But physical Indentations and protrusions have no effect on arousal, and visual permeability has no effect on pleasure. In addition, the results showed that the EEG data extracted from the headset (MindWave MW001) used in this study could well capture the emotions of individuals, thus being a good potential tool for evaluating environmental design interventions in the field of architecture and urban planning.Also, the results of the present study, which show the psychological effects of urban design of a street, help to select and design the appropriate elements and physical characteristics of the space, to increase positive emotions and reduce negative emotions, and ultimately improve the mental health of citizens.
