Charalambous, E;
Hanna, S;
Penn, A;
(2017)
Visibility analysis, spatial experience and EEG recordings in virtual reality environments: The experience of ‘knowing where one is’ and isovist properties as a means to assess the related brain activity.
In: Heitor, T and Serra, M and Silva, JP and Bacharel, M and da Silva, LC, (eds.)
Proceedings of the 11th Space Syntax Symposium - 2017.
(pp. 128.1-128.12).
Instituto Superior Técnico, Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Georrecursos, Portugal: Lisbon, Portugal.
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Abstract
Virtual Reality environments in combination with brain activity recordings using electroencephalography (EEG) offer a fruitful method to investigate the emergence of specific experiential events in response to the built environment. However, real-world experimental settings involve dynamic and complex conditions which are difficult to be controlled in order to test specific hypothesis that are related to neurophysiology. We discuss here several factors that should be taking into account when designing ecological EEG experiments such as a reflective approach on the human spatial experience, consideration of first-person perspectives and a quantitative analysis of the spatial context. The focus of this paper is to propose a methodology that may facilitate the design of virtual reality EEG experiments that aim to investigate the human experience and cognition within and of the built environment. A pilot virtual reality case study is presented to illustrate how the experience of 'suddenly knowing where one is' could be approached. In this case the isovist measurements of area and revelation along participants' paths offer a useful 'tool' that allows us to isolate and study with further analysis of the EEG signal, the moment that this experience might be manifested as neuronal firing patterns in the human brain.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Visibility analysis, spatial experience and EEG recordings in virtual reality environments: The experience of ‘knowing where one is’ and isovist properties as a means to assess the related brain activity |
| Event: | 11th Space Syntax Symposium |
| Location: | Lisbon |
| Dates: | 03 July 2017 - 07 July 2017 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-972-98994-4-7 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.11ssslisbon.pt/docs/proceedings/papers/... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Virtual Reality, Spatial Cognition, Ecological Experiments, EEG, isovist |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1574330 |
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