The Effect of Landscape Ecological Structure on the Psychological and Physiological Responses in School Environment
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Lee, Ching-Hsien
Abstract
People who live in urban are often stress on job and society. Because these all kind of stress and anxiety, many people have been shown negative impact on both physical and psychological. The natural environment has physical and psychological effects on the recovery, but the people who live in the city have seldom chances to close the natural environment. Therefore, school plays a very important role to people live in urban. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among different landscape structure index and respondents’ attention level, landscape preference and their physiological responses. This study chose 20 campus settings in National Taiwan University and collected samples from every settings. The study applied of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to digitize the aerial photography of every campus settings and classify land cover type into four different types -grassland, artificial land, forest land and waterbody. Then we calculate the landscape structure indices of each setting. In this study we chose four Landscape structure indices including Number of Patches(NP), Mean Patch Size(MPS), Mean Shape Index(MSI), and Percentage of Landscape (PERCLAND).We collected research data on-site. The Perceived restorativeness scale (PRS) and landscape preference were applied as the index of respondents'' psychological responses. The physical response includes Electromyography (EMG) and Heart rate (HR). Large areas of grass, waterbody and more natural shape of the grass land, waterbody were more preferred and better for attention restoration. And the higher waterbody’s mean patch size the lower heart rate. Artificial land would have a negative impact on landscape quality. The campus environment is more suitable for spread the planting of trees. And the higher forest land’s percentage the lower EMG activity. This means that people feel relaxed. The information can help the site plan make the environment become a healthy place.
Subjects
attention restoration
landscape structure index
landscape preference campus
psycho-physiological benefits
SDGs
Type
thesis
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