Complexity as key to designing cognitive-friendly environments for older people

M Cassarino, A Setti - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The lived environment is the arena where our cognitive skills, preferences, and attitudes
come together to determine our ability to interact with the world. The mechanisms through …

Shortest path distance vs. least directional change: Empirical testing of space syntax and geographic theories concerning pedestrian route choice behaviour

F Shatu, T Yigitcanlar, J Bunker - Journal of Transport Geography, 2019 - Elsevier
Existing knowledge on the impact of built environment (BE) on route choice behaviour is
doubtful due to an unresolved tension between two schools of thought. One represented BE …

Seeing the city: Using eye-tracking technology to explore cognitive responses to the built environment

JB Hollander, A Purdy, A Wiley, V Foster… - Journal of Urbanism …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Context continually influences cognition and behavior, whether walking down a quiet rural
street or a busy city. Research in urban design and placemaking argues that different urban …

Entropy and a sub-group of geometric measures of paths predict the navigability of an environment

D Yesiltepe, PF Velasco, A Coutrot, AO Torun… - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite extensive research on navigation, it remains unclear which features of an
environment predict how difficult it will be to navigate. We analysed 478,170 trajectories from …

Managing mobile text in head mounted displays: studies on visual preference and text placement

J Orlosky, K Kiyokawa, H Takemura - ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, the development of wearable displays has seen a drastic increase.
However, there is still a strong resistance to using wearable technology for fear of decreased …

Psychiatric institutions and the physical environment: Combining medical architecture methodologies and architectural morphology to increase our understanding

E Chrysikou - Journal of Healthcare Engineering, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The pluralism that characterized the development of psychiatric services around the world
created a variety of policies, care models and building types, and fostered experimental …

Droplet etching of deep nanoholes for filling with self-aligned complex quantum structures

A Küster, C Heyn, A Ungeheuer, G Juska… - Nanoscale research …, 2016 - Springer
Strain-free epitaxial quantum dots (QDs) are fabricated by a combination of Al local droplet
etching (LDE) of nanoholes in AlGaAs surfaces and subsequent hole filling with GaAs. The …

Focal and ambient processing of built environments: intellectual and atmospheric experiences of architecture

KK Rooney, RJ Condia, LC Loschky - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Neuroscience has well established that human vision divides into the central and peripheral
fields of view. Central vision extends from the point of gaze (where we are looking) out to …

Spatialising happiness economics: Global metrics, urban politics, and embodied technologies

J Pykett - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Happiness has become a high‐profile goal for national governments, city authorities, and
technology developers finding new ways to map and measure emotions through happiness …

A review study of space perception and navigation of people with low vision: is simulated low vision a reliable methodology?

J Dong, C Karmann - IOP Conference Series: Earth and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The inclusion of visually impaired participants in research protocols concerning their
perception of space and navigation is essential for the reliability of the results, given the …