Experimental Study of Factors to Select Places Based on observation of human behavior in urban public spaces

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to know the process how people select the place where people do some behavior. The author focused on environment-factors like street-furnitures and plants in urban publicspaces and explain how people use them. In the beginning, the author collected data on 193 sample cases of human behavior and sorted thosecases by location, posture, height of street-furniture. As the results, the author focused on "drinking and eating" and conducted surveys and observations for recording how street-furnitures and plants effect human behavior at Shinagawa Central Garden and Tokyo International Forum. The author gave subjects boxed lunches and asked them to eat it at somewhere they like. In order to understand their psychological tendency and the process how they selected the place to eat, the author recorded their conversation and behavior with IC-recorder and video camera. As the result, the author found 9 priorities of environment-factors of places where people select. 1. able to eat with sitting, 2. clean area, 3. situation eaten calmly, 4. moderate temperature, 5. comfortable material to sit, 6. interesting factor, 7. good landscape, 8. comfortable shape to sit, 9. table.