| Title |
A Evaluation of the Subjective Responses on Image of Night Streetscape |
| Authors |
Hyun-Tae Ahn ; Yoon-Seok Choi ; In-Young Jeong ; Jeong-Tai Kim |
| Keywords |
Night image ; Streetscape ; Questionnaire Survey ; Subjective Response |
| Abstract |
As one of the important metropolitan cities in Asia, Seoul shows vibrant atmosphere in the night as well as daytime. Colorful signboards and outdoor lightings are consists of major night elements. In this research, nightscapes of four major streets in Seoul are photographed to analyze the image of Seoul at night. After preparing of slides, questionnaire survey is conducted to study people"s subjective responses on the images of streets at night. After survey, SPSS 10.0 statistical program was used to analyze the results of subjective responses on the nightseapes in Seoul. According to the result, night streetscape 4(shopping and business district)shows vibrant and interesting image. Meanwhile, streetscape 1(high-rise with exterior lighting in shopping district)shows beautiful and harmonious image. Major factor"s are named as "harmonious" and "vibrant". Variable "arranged" shows the highest coefficient to the variable "harmonious", Every variables except the variable "warm" shows significant difference among the mean values of each variables. |