de la Fuente Suárez Luis Alfonso
Architecture School, Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico.
Front Psychol. 2024 Jun 5;15:1303397. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1303397. eCollection 2024.
This article proposes a data collection technique for describing experiences of a built environment. Besides the experiences of the visual and physical aspects of the place, this technique helps describe the sensory, bodily, emotional, interactive, and social experiences occurring during the human-environment encounter. The enabling technique presented is called Reactions and Actions Description Survey (RADES). It employs 120 images depicting people going through different situations involving all the senses, showing expressions related to positive and negative emotions, and realizing varied activities. Forty-five participants visited the esplanade in the exterior of a historic building called Obispado. The case study is located on a hill and is a scenic viewpoint of Monterrey, Mexico. The participants answered the RADES and the Environmental Description Survey (ENVIDES), which focuses on describing the qualities of the place and the appraisals with which it is experienced. The comments about the experiences of the place obtained through both surveys were grouped into 133 categories. Qualitative and quantitative data about the experiences of the place were obtained through both techniques. A quantitative analysis of the data was realized since the participants not only described their experiences with words but also indicated numerically the intensity of such experiences. Spearman correlations between the experiences were calculated, and a general map of the experiences of the place was created through multidimensional scaling analysis (MDS). The study revealed the connections between the elements and qualities of the site and the views with specific positive and negative experiences occurring during the visit. Furthermore, MDS allowed the discovery of 10 dimensions of environmental experience-pleasure/displeasure, high/low arousal, dominance/submissiveness, knowing/inhabiting, environment/self, higher/lower cognition, spatiality/materiality, states/processes, natural/built, and visual/sensory. The presented techniques and the findings obtained through them can assist architects in recognizing valuable environmental features for the design of livable spaces.
本文提出了一种用于描述建筑环境体验的数据收集技术。除了场所视觉和物理方面的体验外，该技术还有助于描述人类与环境相遇时发生的感官、身体、情感、互动和社会体验。所提出的支持技术称为反应与行动描述调查（RADES）。它采用120张图像，描绘人们经历涉及所有感官的不同情境，展示与积极和消极情绪相关的表情，并进行各种活动。45名参与者参观了一座名为主教宫的历史建筑外部的广场。该案例研究位于一座山上，是墨西哥蒙特雷的一个景点。参与者回答了RADES和环境描述调查（ENVIDES），后者侧重于描述场所的品质以及体验场所时的评价。通过这两项调查获得的关于场所体验的评论被归为133类。通过这两种技术获得了关于场所体验的定性和定量数据。由于参与者不仅用文字描述了他们的体验，还以数字形式指出了这些体验的强度，因此对数据进行了定量分析。计算了体验之间的斯皮尔曼相关性，并通过多维尺度分析（MDS）创建了场所体验的总图。该研究揭示了场地元素和品质与参观期间发生的特定积极和消极体验的观点之间的联系。此外，MDS还发现了环境体验的10个维度——愉悦/不悦、高/低唤醒、主导/顺从、了解/居住、环境/自我、更高/更低认知、空间性/物质性、状态/过程、自然/人造以及视觉/感官。所提出的技术以及通过它们获得的研究结果可以帮助建筑师识别宜居空间设计中有价值的环境特征。
