Call for papers edra37/2006
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2005/05/04作成
2006年5月に以下のように北米を中心とする環境心理に関する国際学会edra37/2006が開催されます。大学院生諸君も是非参加してください。
また、どなたでも関心がある方の参加は歓迎されています。
The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) is an international multi-disciplinary organization of designers, researchers, educators, and other professionals involved in the design and management of the physical environment. Our mission is to advance and disseminate knowledge of the relationship between people and their surroundings, thereby promoting the creation of environments responsive to human needs on many levels.
Venue: Sheraton Midtown Atlanta - Colony Square, Atlanta Georgia
This Call for Papers invites you to participate in EDRA 's 37th Annual Meeting, being held at the Sheraton Midtown Atlanta - Colony Square, May 3 - 7, 2006.
As the capitol of the New South, Atlanta is the commercial, industrial and financial giant of the Southeast United States. At its center, towering skyscrapers rise along streets with names evocative of the Old South.
As a transportation hub, visitors come to Atlanta from around the world, and it is the number one destination for African Americans. Indeed, Atlanta has become one of the United States' most culturally diverse cities, with large Hispanic, Asian and African communities making a significant mark on the city.
With daytime temperatures in the 70s, early May makes a perfect time to visit Atlanta. The Sheraton hotel sits in the center of Atlanta's prestigious Midtown area, a short walk from the Arts Center, the Olmsted-designed Piedmont Park and Atlanta Botanical Gardens, museums, premier restaurants and nightclubs, as well as the city's
subway system.
From the Civil War through the Civil Rights movement, Atlanta has been at the center of social and cultural change, and experienced its fair share of conflict.
Theme: Beyond Conflict
John Dewey wrote that "conflict is the gadfly of thought," and EDRA37 highlights the many ways conflict stimulates new ways of seeing and creating the built environment. Conflicts emerge in many ways and take many forms, but they often result in new designs.
Atlanta's own conflicts highlight this growth. Burned by Sherman in the U.S. Civil War, Atlanta's rebuilding took a number of different directions - planned and unplanned. However, gems from its past still remain to remind residents and visitors alike of the conflicts that shaped the city.
Perhaps the most significant conflict since the Civil War was that over civil rights. Home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other movement leaders, Atlanta still feels the influence of those modern giants, and the structures that shaped the movement still play a role in the city.
Other conflicts, both historic and on-going, continue to shape Atlanta. Some of these include broad issues like white flight and its current opposite, the gentrification of in-town neighborhoods; competing needs of growth and preservation; and attempts to revitalize urban areas. Other conflicts have been as restricted as disputes over neighborhood aesthetics, appropriate use of specific parks, and even decisions about naming public facilities. Even in Atlanta, the self-proclaimed City too busy too hate," these conflicts continue.
At its worst, conflict destroys those things we treasure. Even then, however, it creates the stimulus for the creation of new treasures, be they physical or intellectual. At its best, conflict allows those who once opposed each other to find common ground and move far beyond where they were when the conflict began.
| May 1, 2005 |
Call for Proposals |
| Oct. 1, 2005 |
Deadline for Submissions |
| Dec. 31, 2005 |
Selection of Papers & Acceptance Notification |
March 20, 2006 |
Registration Deadline for All Presenters* |
* reduced fee; all presenters are required to be registered by this date to be included in the conference program
| March 21 -May 2006 |
Full-fee Registration |
| May 3, 2006 |
edra37 Intensives |
| May 4- 7, 2006 |
edra37 Conference |
Submission Types:
Intensives
Design Projects
Interactive Poster and Paper Presentations
Workshops/Working Groups
Student Paper Awards
Standard Abstract Format
Please note that all 500-word abstracts need to follow this standard format, and include a completed cover sheet in order to be reviewed, accepted, and published.
All submitters are encouraged to submit their abstracts in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), or Microsoft Word (.doc) format to ensure prompt review. It is particularly important that full length papers be submitted in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. All figures and graphs should be included in the full-length submissions for review purposes. All submitted files need to allow for editing and annotations.
The standard format for all ABSTRACTS follows:
Last Name, First Name (Affiliation, Place, 2-digit country code, if desired) "Title of Presentation" Abstract text. Additional presenters, if applicable (affiliations). 5 keywords taken from the cover-sheet list. Inclusive total not to exceed 500 words.
Example Abstract:
Haq, Saif (Texas Tech University, TX), and Girotto, Sara (Texas Tech University, TX). "The Role Of Relations: Environmental Properties In Sketch Maps And Wayfinding Behavior."
There seems to be a growing consensus in the literature that topological variables, both in the environment and in the sketch maps, are reliable indicators of wayfinding performance. Rovine and Wiseman (1995) found that topological accuracy of sketch maps was highly correlated to wayfinding behavior. Haq and Zimring (2001) described a process where wayfinding uses of spaces was correlated to topological variables of the layout as determined from Space Syntax analysis. They asserted that the topological configuration of the physical setting featured prominently in the sketch maps of the subjects and wayfinding was more successful when started from spaces of lower topological depth (Haq, 2002). In spite of such findings, the relationship between topological variables of sketch maps and of the environment remains far from clear. This study deals with procedures of sketch map analyses and their comparisons, relationships between sketch map variables and wayfinding performance, and associations between self-reported strategies of wayfinding and real world performance. The research uses data derived from an empirical experiment conducted in two complex hospitals located in a major US city. Ninety-six volunteers, completely unfamiliar with the two environments, performed open explorations and wayfinding tasks. They first gave the participants an opportunity to become familiar with the environment, and in the second, they were required to find specific destinations. Moreover, the participants were asked to point to locations that were not visible from their position, to draw sketch maps of the hospitals, and to fill in a questionnaire (taken from Lawton, 1996) concerning their wayfinding strategies (orientation or route). Space Syntax techniques were used to compute some values of the environmental units. Data reporting the total number of lines, nodes and redundant nodes used during the experiment were derived. In summary, five different sets of data were produced: personal data, sketch map variables, wayfinding performance indicators (coefficient of success, total lines used, total nodes used, redundant node use and repeat visits), cognitive tasks (average pointing error and average distance estimation error), and self-reported strategy scores (mean score for orientation and route strategy). Preliminary analyses suggest that: A) There are gender differences in terms of wayfinding and cognitive tasks; B) The configuration of an environment influences wayfinding and cognitive performances; C) For complex buildings, self-reported strategies differ significantly from what Lawton described (1996); D) Topological accuracy of sketch maps is a good predictor of pointing accuracy; E) Orientation strategy score can predict pointing accuracy. Although topological variables are important, the overall complexity of the physical setting is essential to consider in sketch maps and wayfinding performance. Therefore, certain descriptions of the built environment must be an integral part of any relationship that is proposed between the physical environment and its cognition or wayfinding performance within it.
Keywords: Cognition, institution, topology, wayfinding, space syntax.