The Cyber-walk: Its Space Resistance and the Potentiality to Supplant the Town-walk

Abstract

Nowadays, barriers of distance are gradually taken away by information technologies. It is likely that shopping activities in cyber-space are being substituted for that in town-space. This study aims to clarify the potentiality of the cyber-space to supplant the town-walk in near future. Questionnaire survey with experiment of cyber-walk has executed. It is clarified that, 1) destinations of cyber-walk are completely different from those of town-walk, 2) cyber-walk is truly “distance free” activity and 3) town-walk and cyber-walk are not always compete, but those have possibilities to complement.