Viewer preference for spatial arrangement of park trees: An application of video-imaging technology |
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Authors: | Herbert W Schroeder Brian Orland |
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Institution: | (1) USDA Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station, 5801 N. Pulaski Rd., Bldg. C, 60646 Chicago, Illinois, USA;(2) Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, 61801 Urbana, Illinois, USA |
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Abstract: | Research on perception of parks and recreation settings has examined several important tree attributes that influence people's
visual preferences. This research, however, has usually not considered the spatial arrangement of the trees, partly because
of the lack of adequate methods for representing tree arrangements with systematically manipulated geometries. In the study
reported here, computer video-imaging techniques were used to construct simulated landscape scenes that varied on specific
dimensions of the spatial configuration of trees. The simulations were rated for visual preference by three respondent groups:
a university class, a bicycle club, and a women's civic group. Preference ratings were significantly influenced by the number
of trees in the scene, by the number of clumps into which trees were grouped, and by the diameter of the clumps. The video-imaging
technology implemented in this study offers important methodological advantages for the design of carefully controlled experiments
to study human response to variation in landscape treatments. |
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Keywords: | Trees Spacing Parks Video-imaging Landscape |
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