Embodied visuo-locomotive experience analysis: immersive reality based summarisation of experiments in environment-behaviour studies

Abstract

Evidence-based design (EBD) for architecture involves the study of post-occupancy behaviour of building users with the aim to provide an empirical basis for improving building performance [Hamilton and Watkins 2009]. Within EBD, the high-level, qualitative analysis of the embodied visuo-locomotive experience of representative groups of building users (e.g., children, senior citizens, individuals facing physical challenges) constitutes a foundational approach for understanding the impact of architectural design decisions, and functional building performance from the viewpoint of areas such as environmental psychology, wayfinding research, human visual perception studies, spatial cognition, and the built environment [Bhatt and Schultz 2016].