Hello,
Last year I completed a senior thesis that uses the case study of an
American college campus to compare space syntax measures of urban form
with behavioral measures of spatial judgment and memory. I found that
the global integration of a location on the campus predicts students'
accuracy at recalling that location when asked under controlled
conditions. The document is available on-line as a PDF, along with a
brief summary handout, a demo of the spatial judgment and memory tasks,
and the axial map that I used:
http://drew.dara-abrams.com/research/
I would appreciate any questions, comments, or suggestions you may have.
I am currently revising this work at University of California, Santa
Barbara, and readying it for publication. While preparing to run the
study on this campus, I have been wondering about how to best use axial
maps and visibility graphs to characterize outdoor settings that are not
simply open streets and solid buildings. For instance, the university
campuses that I am considering are filled with landscaping as well as
roadways, some of which can be walked across and some of which cannot be
traversed but can be seen across. I am planning on doing two sets of
models, one that describes spaces that are accessible/can be walked
across and a second that describes spaces that are visible/can be seen.
As I am doing this, I am trying to assemble some rough guidelines for
which physical features to ignore and which to include in space syntax
models when "ground truthing" CAD plans, but I don't want to duplicate
work that may have been done previously. I would greatly appreciate any
literature references or other suggestions on methodology.
Thank you for your time,
Drew Dara-Abrams
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Drew Dara-Abrams
University of California, Santa Barbara
Dept. of Psychology - Cognitive and Perceptual Sciences
NSF IGERT in Interactive Digital Multimedia
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