HOW TO UTILIZE COASTAL PRIMARY PSYCHO-SCENES FOR COASTAL IMPROVEMENT WORKS

Abstract

It has been getting important recently to take a local resident's request into consideration for coastal improvement works. Based on the questionnaire survey for the coastal primary psycho-scenes, items that related to the coastal primary psycho-scenes were studied. The items have four types; activity in amenity spaces, things and natural phenomenon, five physical senses and Kansei (sensitivity). Since the people can become pleasant when seeing beautiful scenery, this sensitivity was defined as “Kansei” and its strength as “Kansei point”. The Kansei points could be estimated by using the each items It was found that a correlation coefficient for the five senses and Kansei point was high. The common items related to the coastal primary psycho-scenes are as following: waves, bridges rock and evening sun.