ABSTRACT

The present study investigated cognitive map development in multilevel built environments. Three experiments were conducted in complex virtual buildings to examine the effects of five between-floor structural factors that may impede the accuracy of humans’ ability to build multilevel cognitive maps. Results from Experiments 1 and 2 (of three experiments) revealed that difficulties in developing multilevel cognitive maps are not solely caused by the z-axis offset, as is suggested in the literature, but are due to the factorial combination of a between-floor overlap and a z-axis offset. Results from Experiment 2 showed that this process becomes substantially more difficult when the reference directions between different floors have an angular offset from each other. Finally, results from Experiment 3 demonstrated that confusing between-floor heading shifts in aligned buildings did not make it reliably harder to build multilevel cognitive maps. The implications of these findings are discussed in terms of theories of mental representations in multilayered three-dimensional spaces, as well as for architectural design.

摘要

本研究调查了多层建筑环境中的认知图开发。在复杂的虚拟建筑物中进行了三个实验，以检查可能影响人类构建多层认知图的准确性的五个楼层间结构因素的影响。实验1和2（三个实验）的结果表明，开发多层次认知图的困难不仅是由文献中提出的，不仅是由z轴偏移引起的，而且还归因于地板间重叠的因子组合。和z轴偏移。实验2的结果表明，当不同楼层之间的参考方向彼此之间存在角度偏移时，此过程将变得更加困难。最后，实验3的结果表明，在对齐的建筑物中令人困惑的楼层间前进方向偏移并没有使构建多层认知图变得更加可靠。这些发现的含义将在多层三维空间中的心理表征理论以及建筑设计方面进行讨论。