Measuring Physiological Responses to VR-Based Urban Environments

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In order to ensure social acceptance and to reduce the risk of lengthy legal procedures, modern urban planning uses approaches that include different stakeholders in the planning process. However, to effectively communicate different planning scenarios to stakeholders such as residents, investors, or political decision makers, suitable cartographic visualization methods are required The cartographic methods available for visualizing spatial scenarios are continuously expanded based on technological advances Examples are the introduction of interactive multimedia cartography and 3D spatial representations. As a next step from screen based 3D representations, the recent availability of cheap and effective Virtual Reality (VR) hardware enables unprecedented levels of immersion in spatial perception of urban planning scenarios In VR, spatial planning scenarios can be represented in a scale of 1:1 (Hruby et al., 2020) and perceived from a multitude of egocentric perspectives Thus, by using VR technology, stakeholders can experience urban planning scenarios in ways that closely resemble the natural perceptions of real-world environments