Using virtual reality to characterize cultural ecosystem services provisioning by green stormwater infrastructure – Lessons for participatory design

IF 6.7 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Lauren Krauss, Megan A. Rippy, Megan Blumenauer
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This study explores the potential of virtual reality (VR) to capture community perceptions of cultural ecosystem services provisioning (e.g., aesthetics, sense of place) by green stormwater infrastructure. Surveys were administered to > 500 people at the University of Maryland, each of whom viewed a bioretention system (UMD West or UMD Creek) or its corresponding virtual model. Two models were prepared for each real site (bioretention-only and situated within the landscape) to explore the importance of incorporating situational context into VR simulations. Our results suggest that virtual bioretention models reproduce many of the patterns in cultural ecosystem services provisioning observed in real bioretention systems; they co-provide aesthetic and sense of place services and were perceived to provide more services relative to parking lots and messy greenspace than manicured greenspace. However, perceptual accuracy was inconsistent, both across bioretention sites and model simulations, with the situated model of UMD Creek exhibiting significantly elevated cultural ecosystem service scores. The bias associated with this particular model appears to reflect the absence of contextual factors (e.g., signs of neglect, messy complexity, and anthropogenic noise) that were present in the real environment. The direction of the bias has implications for participatory design – namely, care should be taken with situational context to avoid overpromising services to viewers. These results have important implications for landscape professionals who are interested in leveraging new technologies for community-centered design as well as the communities they serve who have the potential to benefit from participatory design approaches and more culturally sensitive stormwater infrastructure.
利用虚拟现实表征绿色雨水基础设施提供的文化生态系统服务——参与式设计的经验教训
本研究探讨了虚拟现实(VR)的潜力,以捕捉社区对绿色雨水基础设施提供的文化生态系统服务的看法(例如,美学,地方感)。研究人员对马里兰大学(University of Maryland) >; 的500人进行了调查,每个人都观看了生物滞留系统(UMD West或UMD Creek)或相应的虚拟模型。为每个真实场地(仅保留生物并位于景观中)准备了两个模型,以探索将情境背景纳入VR模拟的重要性。我们的研究结果表明,虚拟生物保留模型再现了许多在真实生物保留系统中观察到的文化生态系统服务提供模式;它们共同提供美学和场所感服务,相对于停车场和凌乱的绿地,它们被认为提供了更多的服务,而不是修剪整齐的绿地。然而,在不同的生物保留点和模型模拟中,感知准确性是不一致的,UMD Creek的定位模型显示出显著提高的文化生态系统服务得分。与这个特定模型相关的偏差似乎反映了真实环境中存在的上下文因素(例如,忽视的迹象,混乱的复杂性和人为噪音)的缺失。偏见的方向对参与式设计有影响-即,应注意情境背景,以避免向观众过度承诺服务。这些结果对景观专业人士以及他们所服务的社区具有重要意义,这些景观专业人士对利用新技术进行以社区为中心的设计感兴趣,他们有可能从参与式设计方法和更具文化敏感性的雨水基础设施中受益。
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来源期刊
CiteScore
11.70
自引率
12.50%
发文量
289
审稿时长
70 days
期刊介绍: Urban Forestry and Urban Greening is a refereed, international journal aimed at presenting high-quality research with urban and peri-urban woody and non-woody vegetation and its use, planning, design, establishment and management as its main topics. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening concentrates on all tree-dominated (as joint together in the urban forest) as well as other green resources in and around urban areas, such as woodlands, public and private urban parks and gardens, urban nature areas, street tree and square plantations, botanical gardens and cemeteries. The journal welcomes basic and applied research papers, as well as review papers and short communications. Contributions should focus on one or more of the following aspects: -Form and functions of urban forests and other vegetation, including aspects of urban ecology. -Policy-making, planning and design related to urban forests and other vegetation. -Selection and establishment of tree resources and other vegetation for urban environments. -Management of urban forests and other vegetation. Original contributions of a high academic standard are invited from a wide range of disciplines and fields, including forestry, biology, horticulture, arboriculture, landscape ecology, pathology, soil science, hydrology, landscape architecture, landscape planning, urban planning and design, economics, sociology, environmental psychology, public health, and education.
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