屋内でも自然の癒しを：拡張空間音響による屋外の回復効果の代替
Substituting Restorative Benefits of Being Outdoors through Interactive Augmented Spatial Soundscapes
高齢者施設の入居者を対象に、拡張空間音響で屋外の自然音を再現し、屋外活動がもたらす回復・社会・体験的効果を屋内で代替できるか調査する研究計画を提案した。
著者: Swapna Joshi, Kostas Stavrianakis, Sanchari Das
分類: cs.CY, cs.HC, cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Geriatric depression is a common mental health condition affecting majority of older adults in the US. As per Attention Restoration Theory (ART), participation in outdoor activities is known to reduce depression and provide restorative benefits. However, many older adults, who suffer from depression, especially those who receive care in organizational settings, have less access to sensory experiences of the outdoor natural environment. This is often due to their physical or cognitive limitations and from lack of organizational resources to support outdoor activities. To address this, we plan to study how technology can bring the restorative benefits of outdoors to the indoor environments through augmented spatial natural soundscapes. Thus, we propose an interview and observation-based study at an assisted living facility to evaluate how augmented soundscapes substitute for outdoor restorative, social, and experiential benefits. We aim to integrate these findings into a minimally intrusive and intuitive design of an interactive augmented soundscape, for indoor organizational care settings.