| id |
sigradi2005_529 |
| authors |
Bourdakis, Vassilis; Anna Chronaki |
| year |
2005 |
| title |
A Social and gendered analysis of the utilization of a VR planning tool for public participation |
| source |
SIGraDi 2005 - [Proceedings of the 9th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] Lima - Peru 21-24 november 2005, vol. 2, pp. 529-534 |
| summary |
The paper is a follow-up to earlier work investigating the research hypothesis that Virtual Reality (VR) is nowadays a maturetechnology, suitable for communicating planning ideas. A work in progress involving the redesign of two squares within the urbanfabric of a deprived Athenian neighbourhood is presented. A VR model of existing and proposed layouts was constructed, focusingon accuracy of visualisation, ease of navigation, online spatialized commenting mechanism and ease of access. User groups weresupported with appropriate training—researchers had the opportunity to observe the reactions of people and deliver questionnairesthat help identify problem areas related to technophobia, disbelief, past knowledge, communication skills, understanding of thevisualisation system used, usability of the navigation system as well as the commenting mechanism. Gender and social exclusionare key issues in this particular multicultural neighbourhood. Collecting demographic data on all participants (age, sex, educationlevel, employment, marital status, etc.) during the commenting process enables a series of analyses testing the ways the system isused. |
| series |
SIGRADI |
| email |
|
| full text |
 file.pdf (259,688 bytes) |
| references |
Content-type: text/plain
|
| last changed |
2016/03/10 09:47 |
|
