TY - JOUR
T1 - Using virtual reality environments to unveil the imageability of the city in homogenous and heterogeneous environments
AU - Shushan, Yossi
AU - Portugali, Juval
AU - Blumenfeld-Lieberthal, Efrat
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2016/7/1
Y1 - 2016/7/1
N2 - The presented work explores the way the information conveyed by the morphology of urban artifacts affects the way we perceive the built environment. The above exploration is implemented by means of Virtual Reality Environments we have specifically developed for this purpose. We compare heterogeneous environments characterized by a heavy tailed distribution with homogeneous environments that are characterized by normal distribution and show that the former provide higher level of information and thus better imageability than the latter.
AB - The presented work explores the way the information conveyed by the morphology of urban artifacts affects the way we perceive the built environment. The above exploration is implemented by means of Virtual Reality Environments we have specifically developed for this purpose. We compare heterogeneous environments characterized by a heavy tailed distribution with homogeneous environments that are characterized by normal distribution and show that the former provide higher level of information and thus better imageability than the latter.
KW - Heavy tailed distributions
KW - Imageability
KW - Shannonian information
KW - Virtual environments
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84961898788&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2016.02.008
DO - 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2016.02.008
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AN - SCOPUS:84961898788
SN - 0198-9715
VL - 58
SP - 29
EP - 38
JO - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
JF - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
ER -