DYNAMIC CONSPICUITY OF WIND POWER PLANTS FOCUSING ON TURBINE ROTATION

Abstract

 While accurate environmental impact assessment of wind farm is required due to frequent landscape disputes, current assessment criteria do not discuss the viewpoint that wind turbines are rotating structures. In this study, we conducted five experiments to examine visual search and instantaneous vision using both simple and landscape models from the viewpoint of attentional capture caused by the motion of rotating turbines of wind power plant, were conducted. The results indicated differences in gazing behavior between the case when the windmill was stationary and when it was rotating. This suggests that visual attention is captured by the dynamic conspicuity.