Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
The immersive visualization theater: A new tool for ecosystem assessment and landscape planning
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2598-3704
Abstract In this study focusing on human–environment interactions, we analyze the use of an immersive visualization theater (IVT) for exploring how humans use and value cultural ecosystem services provided by natural landscapes in Israel's Carmel Forest. Our goal in this inductive, exploratory study is to assess the impact of the IVT on the quality and content of stakeholder discussions held in the theater. We facilitated 10 focus group discussions in the IVT, where a series of high-resolution photographs were projected. Participants were asked (in writing and orally) to choose from among the scenes where they would prefer to spend time, and then asked to explain their answers. Next, they were asked to describe activities in selected scenes in which they were likely to participate. We suggest that the immersion theater, due to screen size, photo resolution, social interaction, and group isolation within the theater, elicited attention to detail and triggered memories and sensory responses to various landscapes. The qualitative data derived from focus group discussions add to our understanding of the diverse meanings and importance that different people attribute to the landscape, contribute to understanding the social processes and conditions through which participants attribute value to cultural ecosystem services, and allow us to generate testable hypotheses for continuing research.
Highlights Focus-group discussions about perceptions of forested landscapes were conducted in an immersive visualization theater Screen size, isolation within the theater and group social interaction may contribute to the quality of discussions Cultural services from forests include solitude, exploration, social interaction, relaxation and a home for biodiversity The theater is recommended for planning with communities and research on landscape perceptions and cultural services
The immersive visualization theater: A new tool for ecosystem assessment and landscape planning
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2598-3704
Abstract In this study focusing on human–environment interactions, we analyze the use of an immersive visualization theater (IVT) for exploring how humans use and value cultural ecosystem services provided by natural landscapes in Israel's Carmel Forest. Our goal in this inductive, exploratory study is to assess the impact of the IVT on the quality and content of stakeholder discussions held in the theater. We facilitated 10 focus group discussions in the IVT, where a series of high-resolution photographs were projected. Participants were asked (in writing and orally) to choose from among the scenes where they would prefer to spend time, and then asked to explain their answers. Next, they were asked to describe activities in selected scenes in which they were likely to participate. We suggest that the immersion theater, due to screen size, photo resolution, social interaction, and group isolation within the theater, elicited attention to detail and triggered memories and sensory responses to various landscapes. The qualitative data derived from focus group discussions add to our understanding of the diverse meanings and importance that different people attribute to the landscape, contribute to understanding the social processes and conditions through which participants attribute value to cultural ecosystem services, and allow us to generate testable hypotheses for continuing research.
Highlights Focus-group discussions about perceptions of forested landscapes were conducted in an immersive visualization theater Screen size, isolation within the theater and group social interaction may contribute to the quality of discussions Cultural services from forests include solitude, exploration, social interaction, relaxation and a home for biodiversity The theater is recommended for planning with communities and research on landscape perceptions and cultural services
The immersive visualization theater: A new tool for ecosystem assessment and landscape planning
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2598-3704
Abstract In this study focusing on human–environment interactions, we analyze the use of an immersive visualization theater (IVT) for exploring how humans use and value cultural ecosystem services provided by natural landscapes in Israel's Carmel Forest. Our goal in this inductive, exploratory study is to assess the impact of the IVT on the quality and content of stakeholder discussions held in the theater. We facilitated 10 focus group discussions in the IVT, where a series of high-resolution photographs were projected. Participants were asked (in writing and orally) to choose from among the scenes where they would prefer to spend time, and then asked to explain their answers. Next, they were asked to describe activities in selected scenes in which they were likely to participate. We suggest that the immersion theater, due to screen size, photo resolution, social interaction, and group isolation within the theater, elicited attention to detail and triggered memories and sensory responses to various landscapes. The qualitative data derived from focus group discussions add to our understanding of the diverse meanings and importance that different people attribute to the landscape, contribute to understanding the social processes and conditions through which participants attribute value to cultural ecosystem services, and allow us to generate testable hypotheses for continuing research.
Highlights Focus-group discussions about perceptions of forested landscapes were conducted in an immersive visualization theater Screen size, isolation within the theater and group social interaction may contribute to the quality of discussions Cultural services from forests include solitude, exploration, social interaction, relaxation and a home for biodiversity The theater is recommended for planning with communities and research on landscape perceptions and cultural services
The immersive visualization theater: A new tool for ecosystem assessment and landscape planning
Orenstein, Daniel E. (Autor:in) / Zimroni, Hagit (Autor:in) / Eizenberg, Efrat (Autor:in)
Computers, Environments and Urban Systems ; 54 ; 347-355
13.10.2015
9 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
The immersive visualization theater: A new tool for ecosystem assessment and landscape planning
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