Effect of Visual Stimuli of Indoor Floor Plants upon the Human Responses
| Autor: | Agnes Nyilas, Tadahiro Tsuchikawa, Kenta Fukagawa, Kunihito Tobita, Reiko Hashimoto, Ken Yamashita, Yoshiaki Yamato, Yoshihito Kurazumi, Emi Kondo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Visual perception
Monstera biology business.industry 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Thermal sensation biology.organism_classification Gaze 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Air temperature Sensation General Earth and Planetary Sciences Environmental science Computer vision 030212 general & internal medicine Artificial intelligence business General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Health. 10:928-948 |
| ISSN: | 1949-5005 1949-4998 |
| Popis: | The biophilia hypothesis maintains that animals, which bring benefits for human survival, evolve adaptively to cause a positive emotional response or actions in the human evolution process. When connected in an advantageous environment for survival, effective relaxation and recovery from fatigue are brought about as further physiological functions, rather than a simple stress-free situation. The aim of this study is to clarify the significance of the visual stimulation of indoor floor plants placed in an office floor space. We examined how the green covering factor and gaze distance to indoor floor plants placed on the floor influenced thermal sensation. The thermal environment conditions were set at 3 levels, 25°C, 28°C, and 31°C and the floor and air temperature were homogenous. We set up 8 office floor plans that had no visual stimulation and used indoor floor plants including pachira, monstera, butterfly palm, yucca elephantipes, weeping fig, umbellate, and snake plant for a visual stimulation. The gaze distance, measured from the center of the subject presented with a visual stimulation and the center of the plant, was set at 3 distances: 2.0, 4.5 and 8.0 m. When the conduction-corrected modified effective temperature (ETF) was below 26°C, the visual stimulation of the indoor floor plants umbellata and monstera, which have a silhouette with low leaf density and rounded leaves, were shown to mitigate the sensation of being cool. The visual stimulation of indoor floor plants with rounded leaves, such as, pachira, monstera, weeping fig, and umbellata, were shown to decrease the feeling of discomfort. For a gaze distance below 4.5 m, a green covering accounting for less than 5% was shown to be necessary for mitigating the sensation of being cool and improving the feeling of discomfort. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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