THE USABILITY OF THE SIMULATION MEDIUM FOR PERCEPTS AND JUDGMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL SPACE : Studies on the planning of exterior spaces, 6

Abstract

We have developed a simulator which enables us to observe scale models from eye level. The purpose of this study is to confirm the usability of the simulator for architectural planning. After several experiments, we got the following data in the real space and the simulated one: 1) perceptual constancy by psychological method, 2) emotional meanings by S. D. method and 3) perceptual distances and eye movements by Eye-Mark-Recoder. Using these data, we compared the qualities of both spaces. As the result, we found that we can perceive the simulated space as the real one and this simulator is useful for perception and judgment of architectural space.