论文标题
通过交互式增强空间景观来代替室外的恢复性好处
Substituting Restorative Benefits of Being Outdoors through Interactive Augmented Spatial Soundscapes
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论文摘要
老年抑郁症是影响美国大多数老年人的常见心理健康状况。根据注意恢复理论（ART），众所周知，参与户外活动可减少抑郁症并提供恢复性的好处。但是，许多患有抑郁症的老年人，尤其是那些在组织环境中受到护理的人，他们获得了户外自然环境的感官体验的机会。这通常是由于它们的身体或认知局限性以及缺乏支持户外活动的组织资源。为了解决这个问题，我们计划研究技术如何通过增强的空间自然音景通过增强的室内环境带来室内环境的恢复性益处。因此，我们在辅助生活设施中提出了一项基于访谈和基于观察的研究，以评估如何增强音景替代户外修复，社交和体验式益处。我们的目的是将这些发现集成到交互式增强音景的最小侵入性和直观的设计中，以供室内组织护理设置。
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.
