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Title: Effects of evocative audio-visual installations on the restorativeness in urban parks
Authors: Masullo, M
Maffei, L
Pascale, A
Senese, VP
De, Stefano, S
Chau, CK 
Issue Date: Aug-2021
Source: Sustainability, Aug. 2021, v. 13, no. 15, 8328
Abstract: Road traffic noise is responsible for several negative health effects for citizens in modern cities. Inside urban parks, which citizens use for social inclusion and cohesion, psychological and physical restoration, and physical activities, road traffic noise may significantly reduce the potential of these places to induce or enhance well-being. Although access restriction schemes and screens could be effective solutions to limit noise inside urban park areas, preserving their potential regenerative role may engender mobility, social, aesthetic, and architectural issues. Due to the positive effects that natural elements and water sounds can have on human perception, and based on the previous findings of the beneficial effects of audio-visual installations, this paper investigates the possibility of using audio-visual installations that simply evoke some natural features to improve the restoration of individuals inside urban parks. The study has been carried out using immersive virtual environments in two different experimental laboratory sessions in Hong Kong (China) and Aversa (Italy). The results showed that the positive effects provided by evocative installations were similar to those provided by traditional installations. Furthermore, the effects on the restoration increased as the installations became larger and included enveloping shapes. Furthermore, we found that the amount of evocative water installations’ material was responsible for changes in restoration. In contrast, the Chinese groups were less influenced by these installations.
Keywords: Informational masking
Restorativeness
Urban parks
Publisher: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
Journal: Sustainability 
EISSN: 2071-1050
DOI: 10.3390/su13158328
Rights: © 2021 by the authors.Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.This article is an open access articledistributed under the terms andconditions of the Creative CommonsAttribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
The following publication Masullo, M.; Maffei, L.;Pascale, A.; Senese, V.P.; De Stefano,S.; Chau, C.K. Effects of EvocativeAudio-Visual Installations on theRestorativeness in Urban Parks.Sustainability 2021, 13, 8328 is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158328
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