Virtual Nature Environments Based on Fractal Geometry for Optimizing Restorative Effects

scite shows how a scientific paper has been cited by providing the context of the citation, a classification describing whether it supports, mentions, or contrasts the cited claim, and a label indicating in which section the citation was made.

Header Abstract Content Author and article information REFERENCES Comments

Record: found
Abstract: found
Conference Proceedings: found

Is Open Access

Virtual Nature Environments Based on Fractal Geometry for Optimizing Restorative Effects

Published

proceedings-article

Author(s): Marc van Almkerk ¹ , Gijs Huisman ¹

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

Keywords: Fractals, Attention Restoration Theory, Virtual Nature, Scenery Assessment, Visual perception

Bookmark

Abstract

Content

Author and article information

Contributors

Marc van Almkerk

Gijs Huisman

Conference

Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 1-11

Affiliations

[1 ] University of Twente

The Netherlands

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.55

SO-VID: 57a9855a-fc18-4be7-bcb9-9a63ca9b6df1

License:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 32

Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

History

Product

1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

Self URI (article page): https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.55

Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/

REFERENCES

D. J. AksJ. C. Sprott 1996 Quantifying Aesthetic Preference for Chaotic Patterns Empirical Studies of the Arts 14 1 1 16 http://doi.org/10.2190/6V31-7M9R-T9L5-CDG9
L. BartramA. PatraM. Stone 2017 Affective Color in Visualization In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 1364 1374 New York, NY, USA ACM http://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026041
T. S. BehrendD. J. SharekA. W. MeadeE. N. Wiebe 2011 The viability of crowdsourcing for survey research Behavior Research Methods 43 3 800 813 http://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-011-0081-0
W. Boucsein 2012 Electrodermal Activity Springer Science & Business Media
J. J. BraithwaiteD. G. WatsonR. JonesM. Rowe 2013 A guide for analysing electrodermal activity (EDA) & skin conductance responses (SCRs) for psychological experiments Psychophysiology 49 1 1017 1034
A. Brouwer-M., & M. A. Hogervorst 2014 A new paradigm to induce mental stress: the Sing-a-Song Stress Test (SSST) Frontiers in Neuroscience 8 http://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00224
A. J. CammM. MalikJ. T. BiggerG. BreithardtS. CeruttiR. J. CohenD. Singer 1996 Heart rate variability. Standards of measurement, physiological interpretation, and clinical use EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL 17 3 354 381
Y. A. W. de KortA. L. MeijndersA. A. G. SponseleeW. A. IJsselsteijn 2006 What’s wrong with virtual trees? Restoring from stress in a mediated environment Journal of Environmental Psychology 26 4 309 320 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2006.09.001
J. P. A. DelaneyD. A. Brodie 2000 Effects of Short-Term Psychological Stress on the Time and Frequency Domains of Heart-Rate Variability Perceptual and Motor Skills 91 2 515 524 http://doi.org/10.2466/pms.2000.91.2.515
M. H. DepledgeR. J. StoneW. J. Bird 2011 Can Natural and Virtual Environments Be Used To Promote Improved Human Health and Wellbeing? Environmental Science & Technology 45 11 4660 4665 http://doi.org/10.1021/es103907m
R. M. FrongilloE. LockD. A. Brown 2007 Symmetric fractal trees in three dimensions Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 32 2 284 295 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2006.04.036
H. R. GimblettR. M. ItamiJ. E. Fitzgibbon 1985 Mystery in an Information Processing Model of Landscape Preference Landscape Journal 4 2 87 95 http://doi.org/10.3368/lj.4.2.87
C. M. HagerhallT. LaikeR. P. TaylorM. KüllerR. KüllerT. P. Martin 2008 Investigations of Human EEG Response to Viewing Fractal Patterns Perception 37 10 1488 1494 http://doi.org/10.1068/p5918
C. M. HagerhallT. PurcellR. Taylor 2004 Fractal dimension of landscape silhouette outlines as a predictor of landscape preference Journal of Environmental Psychology 24 2 247 255 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2003.12.004
T. HartigF. G. KaiserP. A. Bowler 1997 Further development of a measure of perceived environmental restorativeness. Institutet för bostads-och urbanforskning
D. C. HoaglinB. Iglewicz 1987 Fine-Tuning Some Resistant Rules for Outlier Labeling Journal of the American Statistical Association 82 400 1147 1149 http://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.1987.10478551
D. C. HoaglinB. IglewiczJ. W. Tukey 1986 Performance of Some Resistant Rules for Outlier Labeling Journal of the American Statistical Association 81 396 991 999 http://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.1986.10478363
J. K. JonesH. FarleyA. Murphy 2018 Virtual Worlds as Restorative Environments In Authentic Virtual World Education 45 59 Springer, Singapore http://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6382-4_4
Y. Joye 2007 Architectural lessons from environmental psychology: The case of biophilic architecture Review of General Psychology 11 4 305 328 http://doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.11.4.305
S. Kaplan 1995 The restorative benefits of nature: Toward an integrative framework Journal of Environmental Psychology 15 3 169 182 http://doi.org/10.1016/0272-4944(95)90001-2
R. KaplanS. Kaplan 1989 The Experience of Nature: A Psychological Perspective. CUP Archive
K. M. KorpelaT. HartigF. G. KaiserU. Fuhrer 2001 Restorative Experience and Self-Regulation in Favorite Places Environment and Behavior 33 4 572 589 http://doi.org/10.1177/00139160121973133
N. LechtzinA. M. BusseM. T. SmithS. GrossmanS. NesbitG. B. Diette 2010 A Randomized Trial of Nature Scenery and Sounds Versus Urban Scenery and Sounds to Reduce Pain in Adults Undergoing Bone Marrow Aspirate and Biopsy The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 16 9 965 972 http://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2009.0531
J. LeeB. Park-J., Y. TsunetsuguT. KagawaY. Miyazaki 2009 Restorative effects of viewing real forest landscapes, based on a comparison with urban landscapes Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 24 3 227 234 http://doi.org/10.1080/02827580902903341
B. B. Mandelbrot 1982 The fractal geometry of nature (Vol. 982). Freeman, San Francisco
T. PurcellE. PeronR. Berto 2001 Why do Preferences Differ between Scene Types? Environment and Behavior 33 1 93 106 http://doi.org/10.1177/00139160121972882
L. SalahuddinJ. ChoM. G. JeongD. Kim 2007 Ultra Short Term Analysis of Heart Rate Variability for Monitoring Mental Stress in Mobile Settings In 2007 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 4656 4659 http://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353378
A. E. Stamps 2004 Mystery, complexity, legibility and coherence: A meta-analysis Journal of Environmental Psychology 24 1 1 16 http://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-4944(03)00023-9
R. TaylorB. SpeharC. HagerhallP. Van Donkelaar 2011 Perceptual and Physiological Responses to Jackson Pollock’s Fractals Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 5 http://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00060
R. S. Ulrich 1979 Visual landscapes and psychological well‐being. Landscape Research 4 1 17 23 http://doi.org/10.1080/01426397908705892
R. S. Ulrich 1981 Natural Versus Urban Scenes: Some Psychophysiological Effects Environment and Behavior 13 5 523 556 http://doi.org/10.1177/0013916581135001
R. S. UlrichR. F. SimonsB. D. LositoE. FioritoM. A. MilesM. Zelson 1991 Stress recovery during exposure to natural and urban environments Journal of Environmental Psychology 11 3 201 230 http://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-4944(05)80184-7
D. ValtchanovK. R. BartonC. Ellard 2010 Restorative Effects of Virtual Nature Settings Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 13 5 503 512 http://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2009.0308
T. J. L. van RompayT. Jol 2016 Wild and free: Unpredictability and spaciousness as predictors of creative performance Journal of Environmental Psychology, 48 140 148 https: //doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2016.10.001
B. Yang 1989 A cross-cultural comparison of preference for Korean Japanese and Western landscape styles

Comments

Comment on this article

[1] D. J. AksJ. C. Sprott 1996 Quantifying Aesthetic Preference for Chaotic Patterns Empirical Studies of the Arts 14 1 1 16 http://doi.org/10.2190/6V31-7M9R-T9L5-CDG9

[2] L. BartramA. PatraM. Stone 2017 Affective Color in Visualization In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 1364 1374 New York, NY, USA ACM http://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026041

[3] T. S. BehrendD. J. SharekA. W. MeadeE. N. Wiebe 2011 The viability of crowdsourcing for survey research Behavior Research Methods 43 3 800 813 http://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-011-0081-0

[4] W. Boucsein 2012 Electrodermal Activity Springer Science & Business Media

[5] J. J. BraithwaiteD. G. WatsonR. JonesM. Rowe 2013 A guide for analysing electrodermal activity (EDA) & skin conductance responses (SCRs) for psychological experiments Psychophysiology 49 1 1017 1034

[6] A. Brouwer-M., & M. A. Hogervorst 2014 A new paradigm to induce mental stress: the Sing-a-Song Stress Test (SSST) Frontiers in Neuroscience 8 http://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00224

[7] A. J. CammM. MalikJ. T. BiggerG. BreithardtS. CeruttiR. J. CohenD. Singer 1996 Heart rate variability. Standards of measurement, physiological interpretation, and clinical use EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL 17 3 354 381

[8] Y. A. W. de KortA. L. MeijndersA. A. G. SponseleeW. A. IJsselsteijn 2006 What’s wrong with virtual trees? Restoring from stress in a mediated environment Journal of Environmental Psychology 26 4 309 320 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2006.09.001

[9] J. P. A. DelaneyD. A. Brodie 2000 Effects of Short-Term Psychological Stress on the Time and Frequency Domains of Heart-Rate Variability Perceptual and Motor Skills 91 2 515 524 http://doi.org/10.2466/pms.2000.91.2.515

[10] M. H. DepledgeR. J. StoneW. J. Bird 2011 Can Natural and Virtual Environments Be Used To Promote Improved Human Health and Wellbeing? Environmental Science & Technology 45 11 4660 4665 http://doi.org/10.1021/es103907m

[11] R. M. FrongilloE. LockD. A. Brown 2007 Symmetric fractal trees in three dimensions Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 32 2 284 295 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2006.04.036

[12] H. R. GimblettR. M. ItamiJ. E. Fitzgibbon 1985 Mystery in an Information Processing Model of Landscape Preference Landscape Journal 4 2 87 95 http://doi.org/10.3368/lj.4.2.87

[13] C. M. HagerhallT. LaikeR. P. TaylorM. KüllerR. KüllerT. P. Martin 2008 Investigations of Human EEG Response to Viewing Fractal Patterns Perception 37 10 1488 1494 http://doi.org/10.1068/p5918

[14] C. M. HagerhallT. PurcellR. Taylor 2004 Fractal dimension of landscape silhouette outlines as a predictor of landscape preference Journal of Environmental Psychology 24 2 247 255 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2003.12.004

[15] T. HartigF. G. KaiserP. A. Bowler 1997 Further development of a measure of perceived environmental restorativeness. Institutet för bostads-och urbanforskning

[16] D. C. HoaglinB. Iglewicz 1987 Fine-Tuning Some Resistant Rules for Outlier Labeling Journal of the American Statistical Association 82 400 1147 1149 http://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.1987.10478551

[17] D. C. HoaglinB. IglewiczJ. W. Tukey 1986 Performance of Some Resistant Rules for Outlier Labeling Journal of the American Statistical Association 81 396 991 999 http://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.1986.10478363

[18] J. K. JonesH. FarleyA. Murphy 2018 Virtual Worlds as Restorative Environments In Authentic Virtual World Education 45 59 Springer, Singapore http://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6382-4_4

[19] Y. Joye 2007 Architectural lessons from environmental psychology: The case of biophilic architecture Review of General Psychology 11 4 305 328 http://doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.11.4.305

[20] S. Kaplan 1995 The restorative benefits of nature: Toward an integrative framework Journal of Environmental Psychology 15 3 169 182 http://doi.org/10.1016/0272-4944(95)90001-2

[21] R. KaplanS. Kaplan 1989 The Experience of Nature: A Psychological Perspective. CUP Archive

[22] K. M. KorpelaT. HartigF. G. KaiserU. Fuhrer 2001 Restorative Experience and Self-Regulation in Favorite Places Environment and Behavior 33 4 572 589 http://doi.org/10.1177/00139160121973133

[23] N. LechtzinA. M. BusseM. T. SmithS. GrossmanS. NesbitG. B. Diette 2010 A Randomized Trial of Nature Scenery and Sounds Versus Urban Scenery and Sounds to Reduce Pain in Adults Undergoing Bone Marrow Aspirate and Biopsy The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 16 9 965 972 http://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2009.0531

[24] J. LeeB. Park-J., Y. TsunetsuguT. KagawaY. Miyazaki 2009 Restorative effects of viewing real forest landscapes, based on a comparison with urban landscapes Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 24 3 227 234 http://doi.org/10.1080/02827580902903341

[25] B. B. Mandelbrot 1982 The fractal geometry of nature (Vol. 982). Freeman, San Francisco

[26] T. PurcellE. PeronR. Berto 2001 Why do Preferences Differ between Scene Types? Environment and Behavior 33 1 93 106 http://doi.org/10.1177/00139160121972882

[27] L. SalahuddinJ. ChoM. G. JeongD. Kim 2007 Ultra Short Term Analysis of Heart Rate Variability for Monitoring Mental Stress in Mobile Settings In 2007 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society 4656 4659 http://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353378

[28] A. E. Stamps 2004 Mystery, complexity, legibility and coherence: A meta-analysis Journal of Environmental Psychology 24 1 1 16 http://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-4944(03)00023-9

[29] R. TaylorB. SpeharC. HagerhallP. Van Donkelaar 2011 Perceptual and Physiological Responses to Jackson Pollock’s Fractals Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 5 http://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00060

[30] R. S. Ulrich 1979 Visual landscapes and psychological well‐being. Landscape Research 4 1 17 23 http://doi.org/10.1080/01426397908705892

[31] R. S. Ulrich 1981 Natural Versus Urban Scenes: Some Psychophysiological Effects Environment and Behavior 13 5 523 556 http://doi.org/10.1177/0013916581135001

[32] R. S. UlrichR. F. SimonsB. D. LositoE. FioritoM. A. MilesM. Zelson 1991 Stress recovery during exposure to natural and urban environments Journal of Environmental Psychology 11 3 201 230 http://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-4944(05)80184-7

[33] D. ValtchanovK. R. BartonC. Ellard 2010 Restorative Effects of Virtual Nature Settings Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 13 5 503 512 http://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2009.0308

[34] T. J. L. van RompayT. Jol 2016 Wild and free: Unpredictability and spaciousness as predictors of creative performance Journal of Environmental Psychology, 48 140 148 https: //doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2016.10.001

[35] B. Yang 1989 A cross-cultural comparison of preference for Korean Japanese and Western landscape styles

UK Computing Summit 2025: Navigating change (surviving and beyond) - 29-30 April @ Sheffield Hallam University - Register here.

Virtual Nature Environments Based on Fractal Geometry for Optimizing Restorative Effects

Contributors

Conference

Affiliations

Article

History

Product

Categories

Comment on this article