Xu Leiqing, Meng Ruoxi, Huang Shuqing, Chen Zheng

Keywords： Urban Renewal; Healthy Street; Healing Environment; Restorative Environment; Virtual Reality Technology; Green Vision; Street Interface

Abstract：

This paper designs two virtual reality experiments to study the healing potential of urban environment. The first one uses Unreal Engine 4 with excellent immersion to model two different urban environments: streets and another with green space. Sympathetic conductance response data shows that green space has better healing potential than streets. In the second experiment, street models are constructed at different levels of green vision and street interfaces, and HTC helmet is used to display the virtual environment. The experimental result shows that that both the green viewing rate and the street interfaces have significant effects on healing potential on streets. Finally, the paper summarizes the influence of green vision rate and street interfaces on the healing potential of streets, and discusses the design strategies of Healing Street based on urban renewal.

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