Centre for Design Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia.
Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 11;20(2):1341. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20021341.
As our cities grow, it is important to develop policies and streetscape designs that provide pedestrians with safe comfortable walking conditions and acknowledge the challenges involved in making urban places feel liveable and safe while understanding the critical role of streets around busy destinations. To understand these challenges at a nuanced, human level, new methods of citizen engagement are needed. This paper outlines the development and application of a new citizen perception collection method, using immersive virtual environments (IVE), coupled with an interactive emoji affective activation-pleasure grid and digital slider elements, embedded within an online e-participation survey to quantify, and rank the impact of individual (single-variable) urban design elements and safe system treatments on pedestrians' perceptions of safety and place. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of this method for providing detailed, interrogable, scalable citizen perception data of a variety of urban street design elements and safe system treatments, which allows a statistical analysis of responses and prioritization of the most effective pedestrian-oriented interventions for maintaining or enhancing street vibrancy and liveability. Our IVE e-participation approach is an important contribution to forming a better understanding of streetscapes and provides a valuable method for urban designers and transport planners to prioritise different streetscape place and safety approaches.
随着城市的发展,制定政策和街道景观设计以提供行人安全舒适的步行条件非常重要,同时要认识到在理解围绕繁忙目的地的街道的关键作用的同时,使城市空间具有宜居性和安全性所涉及的挑战。为了在细微、人性化的层面上理解这些挑战,需要采用新的公民参与方法。本文概述了一种新的公民感知收集方法的开发和应用,该方法使用沉浸式虚拟环境(IVE),结合互动表情情感激活-愉悦网格和数字滑块元素,嵌入在线电子参与调查中,以量化和对行人对安全和场所的感知进行排名,分析单个(单变量)城市设计元素和安全系统处理对其的影响。结果表明,该方法可有效提供各种城市街道设计元素和安全系统处理的详细、可询问、可扩展的公民感知数据,从而可以对响应进行统计分析,并为维持或提高街道活力和宜居性确定最有效的面向行人的干预措施。我们的 IVE 电子参与方法是对街道景观形成更好理解的重要贡献,并为城市设计师和交通规划者提供了一种宝贵的方法,用于优先考虑不同的街道景观和安全方法。