Combining Cognitive Psychology
and Virtual Reality
to Evaluate Building Performance
An experimental stimulus will be developed for
evaluating cognitive activities performed
in an office environment. The applied methods
include constructing an virtual reality (VR)
model of the Adaptable Workplace Laboratory (AWL)
installed in the 7th floor at the
National Headquarters Building of the General
Services Administration in Washington DC,
which will be used as a setting to conduct psychological
experiments for evaluating the
efficiency of the spatial design. The expected
results will be a digital virtual reality model
of the office equipped with enough stimuli to
be used for future cognitive experiments.
Final PC model images, related 3D chroma, and stereoscopic images are displayed separately.
The following images show the progress of the
project.
This project combines thoughts developed on cognitive
studies (Chan,
1990) and current research
together to initiate a new frontier on utilizing
VR to detect the environmental impact on human cognition.