What Will Virtual Reality Bring to the Qualification of Visual Walkability in Cities?

Chongan Wang, Vincent Tourre, Thomas Leduc, Myriam Servières

2024

Abstract

Walking as a daily activity has become increasingly popular in recent years. It is not only good for people’s health, but it also helps reduce the air pollution and other nuisances associated with vehicle use. As such, we have witnessed the shift in urban design towards a pedestrian-friendly city. While walkability is a broad concept consisting of many different aspects, our work focuses on only one part of it, namely “visual walk-ability”. While standard research on visual walkability tends to conduct field experiments to collect data, we present a novel method to qualify visual walkability, namely assessment in virtual reality with omnidirectional videos. We analyze the possible questions we would encounter and propose an experiment with answers for each question.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Wang C., Tourre V., Leduc T. and Servières M. (2024). What Will Virtual Reality Bring to the Qualification of Visual Walkability in Cities?. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM; ISBN 978-989-758-694-1, SciTePress, pages 203-210. DOI: 10.5220/0012731200003696

in Bibtex Style

@conference{gistam24,
author={Chongan Wang and Vincent Tourre and Thomas Leduc and Myriam Servières},
title={What Will Virtual Reality Bring to the Qualification of Visual Walkability in Cities?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM},
year={2024},
pages={203-210},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012731200003696},
isbn={978-989-758-694-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM
TI - What Will Virtual Reality Bring to the Qualification of Visual Walkability in Cities?
SN - 978-989-758-694-1
AU - Wang C.
AU - Tourre V.
AU - Leduc T.
AU - Servières M.
PY - 2024
SP - 203
EP - 210
DO - 10.5220/0012731200003696
PB - SciTePress