Effects of Various Spatial Elements on the Intensity of Attracting People to Stay in an Open Space by the Computer Graphic Prediction Method

Abstract

In reality, an open space comprises various spatial elements, and people choose a place for sojourn according to the attraction created by the spatial elements. In the first stage, this study develops a simple computer graphic prediction method, where the prediction results of computer graphics are compared with that of the reality. After confirming the reliability of the method, it was applied in the second stage in order to analyze the degrees to which the spatial elements attract people for sojourn. Fifty subjects participated in the actual space experiment, and another group of 50 participated in the computer graphic experiment. Three hundred and twelve subjects participated in the second stage experiment. Both the actual space and the computer graphic experiments show that people tend to choose a place featuring ″seating″, ″trees″, ″shade″ and ″the front of a wall″ for sojourn. The result of the computer graphic experiment is very similar to the actual space experiment, which proves that the computer graphic prediction method is feasible in predicting the places of sojourn of a real space. The priority of people′s choosing a place to stay is: ″a corner + a place to sit″>″a corner″>″the shade″>″a place to sit″>″the front of a wall″.

Keywords

• position
• security
• psychology
• priority
• space