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      Visual perception of the built environment in virtual reality: a systematic characterization of human aesthetic experience in spaces with curved boundaries

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      Author(s)
      Boz, Tuğçe Elver
      Demirkan, Halime
      Ürgen, Burcu Ayşe
      Date
      2022-07-04
      Source Title
      Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
      Electronic ISSN
      1931-3896
      Publisher
      American Psychological Association
      Volume
      16
      Issue
      4
      Pages
      1 - 17
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      Visual perception of architectural spaces and human aesthetic experience in these spaces have recently received considerable interest in cognitive science. However, it has been difficult to construe a common understanding of aesthetic experience for architectural space, since different studies use different scales to measure aesthetic experiences. In this interdisciplinary study spanning cognitive science and architecture, we aim to provide an empirically driven systematic characterization of human aesthetic experience and investigate what aspects of the architectural spaces affect aesthetic experience. To this end, we manipulated various architectural variables including the shape of the curvilinear boundaries of architectural spaces as well as their size, light, texture, and color in virtual reality. We then had people evaluate these spaces by exhausting a large list of commonly used scales in the literature and applied principal component analysis to reveal the key dimensions of aesthetic experience. Our findings suggest that human aesthetic experience can be reduced to 3 key dimensions, namely familiarity, excitement, and fascination. Each of these dimensions are differentially affected by the various architectural variables revealing their differences. In sum, our study provides a comprehensive framework to characterize human aesthetic experience in virtual architectural spaces with curved boundaries.
      Keywords
      Aesthetic experience
      Emotion
      Environmental psychology
      Spatial cognition
      Virtual reality
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/111354
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      http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000504
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      • Department of Psychology 242
      • Graduate School of Engineering and Science 5
      • National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM) 301
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