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Permeability and environmental enclosure.

Arthur E Stamps1

  • 1Institute of Environmental Quality, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA. artstamps@worldnet.att.net

Perceptual and Motor Skills
|August 22, 2003
PubMed
Summary

Environmental enclosure judgments are influenced by room height, permeability, and size. Taller walls and less permeable spaces increase perceived enclosure, while larger horizontal sizes decrease it. These factors significantly impact how people perceive enclosed spaces.

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Area of Science:

  • Environmental psychology
  • Perception science

Background:

  • J. J. Gibson and H. Hediger's theories highlight the significance of environmental enclosure.
  • Re-examination suggests perceived enclosure is influenced by spatial region permeability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effects of spatial permeability, room horizontal size, and wall height on judgments of environmental enclosure.
  • To quantify the relationships between these factors and perceived enclosure.

Main Methods:

  • 64 respondents evaluated 24 scenes based on the criterion of enclosure.
  • Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated to assess the relationship between judged enclosure and the three independent variables.

Main Results:

  • A strong positive correlation was found between judged enclosure and wall height (r=.68).
  • Judged enclosure showed a negative correlation with permeability (r=-.51) and horizontal room size (r=-.31).
  • Interactions between the factors had minimal impact on enclosure judgments.

Conclusions:

  • Wall height, spatial permeability, and horizontal room size are significant determinants of perceived environmental enclosure.
  • The findings refine theoretical understandings of enclosure perception in environmental psychology.

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