School of Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis, The Bartlett, UCL, London, UK.
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Researchers in environmental psychology, health studies and urban design are interested in the relationship between the environment, behaviour settings and emotions. In particular, happiness, or the presence of positive emotional mindsets, broadens an individual's thought-action repertoire with positive benefits to physical and intellectual activities, and to social and psychological resources. This occurs through play, exploration or similar activities. In addition, a body of restorative literature focuses on the potential benefits to emotional recovery from stress offered by green space and 'soft fascination'. However, access to the cortical correlates of emotional states of a person actively engaged within an environment has not been possible until recently. This study investigates the use of mobile electroencephalography (EEG) as a method to record and analyse the emotional experience of a group of walkers in three types of urban environment including a green space setting.
Using Emotiv EPOC, a low-cost mobile EEG recorder, participants took part in a 25 min walk through three different areas of Edinburgh. The areas (of approximately equal length) were labelled zone 1 (urban shopping street), zone 2 (path through green space) and zone 3 (street in a busy commercial district). The equipment provided continuous recordings from five channels, labelled excitement (short-term), frustration, engagement, long-term excitement (or arousal) and meditation.
A new form of high-dimensional correlated component logistic regression analysis showed evidence of lower frustration, engagement and arousal, and higher meditation when moving into the green space zone; and higher engagement when moving out of it.
Systematic differences in EEG recordings were found between three urban areas in line with restoration theory. This has implications for promoting urban green space as a mood-enhancing environment for walking or for other forms of physical or reflective activity.
环境心理学、健康研究和城市设计领域的研究人员对环境、行为环境和情绪之间的关系感兴趣。特别是，幸福感或积极情绪心态的存在，通过对身体和智力活动、社会和心理资源产生积极的影响，拓宽了个体的思维-行动范围。这是通过游戏、探索或类似的活动来实现的。此外，大量的恢复性文献关注的是绿色空间和“软性吸引”为从压力中恢复情绪提供的潜在益处。然而，直到最近，人们才有可能获得一个人在环境中积极参与时的情绪状态的皮质相关物。本研究使用移动脑电图 (EEG) 来记录和分析一组步行者在三种城市环境中的情绪体验，这三种环境包括绿色空间环境。
使用低成本的移动 EEG 记录器 Emotiv EPOC，参与者在爱丁堡的三个不同区域进行了 25 分钟的步行。这些区域（长度大致相等）被标记为 1 区（城市购物街）、2 区（绿色空间中的小路）和 3 区（繁华商业区的街道）。该设备提供了来自五个通道的连续记录，分别标记为兴奋（短期）、沮丧、参与、长期兴奋（或唤醒）和冥想。
一种新的高维相关成分逻辑回归分析表明，当进入绿色空间区域时，沮丧、参与和唤醒程度降低，冥想程度升高；而当离开绿色空间区域时，参与程度升高。
在三个城市区域之间发现了 EEG 记录的系统差异，这与恢复理论一致。这意味着可以将城市绿地作为增强步行者情绪的环境，或者作为其他形式的身体或反思活动的环境。
