Affective evaluation

Autor: admin June - 29 - 2009

Places arouse emotions and feelings. Place can be evaluated as arousing positive or negative affect, as being stimulating or quite the opposite–as calming us down. Emotions awakened by certain place often determine the sort of people who want to spend time in such a place, the way this place will be used, what kind of activities will be taken up there, and whether such a place is perceived as safe or not. Environmental psychologists have acquired methods based on contacts with inhabitants, which enable us to evaluate a place of any scale on emotional dimensions. Professionally-prepared assessment on the emotional (affective) dimension can provide important information that explains the reasons that some places in certain areas function in different ways, which parts of the building are the most popular and why, and what features of the space are a source of positive or negative feelings for its users.