The Influences of Different Landscape Types on Attention

• Main Authors: Wan-Yu Luan, 欒婉玉
• Other Authors: 林晏州
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70307343484500879662

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 園藝學研究所 === 95 === Many studies indicated that when human beings exposed to natural environments, they could get rid of psychology fatigue about working and pressure, and then had more ability to focus attention. The purpose of this study is to figure out that how human beings’ attention will be affected by the artificial and the natural landscapes. And then the examination is going to focus on the performance brought from the four elements, including the visual percepted greening ratio, the types of plants , the kinds of color (the green plants v.s. the colorful plants), the environment with waterscape or not when subjects view natural landscape. Subjects were tested how they were concentrative by viewing 60 pictures of landscape and were evaluated by Necker Cube Pattern Control (NCPC) test. During testing, they have a pretest and a posttest. We discuss how the four important elements will influence people’s attention. In the examinations, different sets of pictures were offered: 1. the artificial; 2.the natural; 3. the high visual percepted greening ratio (the multiple plants, the green plants, the environment without waterscape); 4. the low visual percepted greening ratio; 5. the unitary plant; 6. the colorful plants; 7. the environment with waterscape. According to the report, significantly, we found that the subjects who looked at natural landscape pictures were more concentrative than the others who viewed the artificial pictures. It showed that natural environment really has positive influence on human. We discussed the elements of natural landscape. The result showed that the performance on the test about attention declined from pretest to posttest in the case of the environment with unitary plant, low visual percepted greening ratio. But the performance maintained the same quality in the environment of colorful plants. And the other performance improved. When it comes to the case with good performance, the subjects viewing waterscape improved significantly. Otherwise, the group of the multiple plants performed better than the one of unitary plant. In sum, viewing natural landscape pictures contribute to the improvement of attention. The two elements, the types of plants and the environment with waterscape or not, will have more influence on attention. It is a suggestion for landscape designers to keep the point when they have plans about landscaping. In this way, they could not only beautify environment but also bestead human’s attention.