Comparative Study on Visual Environment of Traditional Street to Modern Street Using Electroencephalographic Analysis

Abstract

The purpose is to get a variance evidence of the physiological reaction to the visual environment between streets of "Important Preservation Districts for Groups of Historic Buildings" and streets of modern residential districts by using the electroencephalographic analysis. We tested the variance of the effect to the human psychology by comparing alpha wave activation in the simulation of visual environment to show the video of both streets. The streets of "Important Preservation Districts for Groups of Historic Buildings" tend to give more relax and calm than the streets of modern residential districts as a result.