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Is virtual reality a valid tool for restorative environments research? [PDF]
Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 2022 This study examines the validity of virtual reality for assessing the restorative quality of environments. In Study 1, participants (N = 23) visited a real natural and a real urban environment, after completing a task to induce mental fatigue (i.e., a ...
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Restorative urban environments for healthy cities: a theoretical model for the study of restorative experiences in urban built settings [PDF]
Landscape Research, 2023 Urban landscapes are becoming the main ecosystem for human life. Given that urban living can be associated with poor psychological health, one specific challenge faced by cities is related to psychological well-being.
Anna Bornioli, Mikel Subiza-Pérez
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Intelligent Buildings International, 2020This is an illustrative review on studies revealing the restorative, that is, stress-reducing, effects of natural settings. We focus on the effects of viewing or being physically active in the natural setting and the effects of indoor plants and window views on restoration and recovery.
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AbstractRestorative environment research is flourishing. Widespread appreciation of the concept has been spurred by two influential theories and has led to a substantive body of research. This chapter gives an overview of what has happened in this area.
van den Berg, A.E., Joye, Y.
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AbstractRestorative environment research is flourishing. Widespread appreciation of the concept has been spurred by two influential theories and has led to a substantive body of research. This chapter gives an overview of what has happened in this area.
van den Berg, A.E., Joye, Y.
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The monastery as a restorative environment
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2005Abstract This study of the restorative benefits of a retreat experience at a Benedictine monastery was based on questionnaire responses by 521 visitors. Factor analysis of the reasons for coming yielded a four-factor solution that both supports and extends the Attention Restoration Theory (ART) model on which the study was based.
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Restorative Effects of Exercise in Virtual Environments
Proceedings of the 9th Augmented Human International Conference, 2018Development of virtual reality devices cannot consider effects of exercise experiences by virtual environments. In this paper, we compared exercise experience by 3 environments (Indoor, Virtual urban, Virtual nature), focusing on restorative effects. We conducted the experiment that rode a bicycle while watching 360 degrees video in each environment ...
Taekyu Kim, Sangwon Lee 0009
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Restorative Environments and Health
2016The vast majority of people live in urbanized areas. These offer numerous advantages, such as access to a great variety of entertainment and cultural events, services such as educational and medical centers, and opportunities for mixing with different kinds of people in lively public places.
Silvia Collado +3 more
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System restoration in a liberalized environment
CIGRE/IEEE PES International Symposium Quality and Security of Electric Power Delivery Systems, 2003. CIGRE/PES 2003., 2003The liberalisation in the electricity supply industry, many changes have emerged, and as a consequence, system operation complexity has increased radically. Changes also effect the operation in abnormal system states and thus impact the performance of the human operators in the control centres.
J. Bogas +8 more
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An Interactive Distributed Environment for Digital Film Restoration
2004The paper presents FESR an interactive environment enabling collaborative digital film restoration over a digital network by connecting seamless the supervisor and operators graphical frameworks, a parallel Image Processing server, a video stream server and a DBMS server.
Fabio Collura +2 more
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Protection and Restoration of the Environment VII
Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2006Among living organisms plants are the most tolerant to pollution. This fact, emphasizes their utility for phytoremediation, a promising technology for environmental cleanup. Many botanical families include multiple species which exhibit a notable phytoremediation potential.
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