Access to an unobstructed view of the outside through a window has been shown to play a critical role in supporting occupants’ visual comfort, psychological well-being, and cognitive performance, as it provides environmental connection and redu...
This paper summarises findings from two workshops evaluating a series of views in various settings by an interdisciplinary group of experts. In the first one (Trondheim, June 2022), ten experts visited and assessed views from nine rooms. In the secon...
Our surroundings, as viewed through the window, have a significant impact on how we feel, how we think, and how productive we are. In order to build settings that promote pleasant emotions and support mental health, whether at home or at work, it is...
12 October 2021
Hospital ratings reflect patient satisfaction, consumer perception of care, and create the context for quality improvement in healthcare settings. Despite an abundance of studies on the health benefits of the presence and content of window views, the...
Multi-view 3D reconstruction aims to discover 3D characteristics based on visual information captured across multiple viewpoints. Transformer networks have shown remarkable success in various computer vision tasks, including multi-view 3D reconstruct...
25 October 2018
With the growing interest among researchers, practitioners, and urban decision makers in the influence of the built environment on peoples’ health, there is increasing emphasis on using scientific knowledge to inform urban design, including met...
Students often experience high levels of daily academic pressure, spending extended periods within indoor classroom environments. Windows, as a medium of proximity to nature, play an important role in relieving stress. However, the broader implicatio...
This study probed how baseline cortisol (BC), negative emotionality (NE), and environmental facets—classroom size and window view—interact to affect executive function (EF) in preschoolers using virtual reality (VR). In a cohort of 144 ch...
Despite the increasing enrollment of young children in childcare institutes, there have been few empirical studies on the effects of spatial elements on their development. This study explored the impact of preschool classroom size (large vs. small) a...
The view from the window is an important parameter of living comfort. Previous studies have defined several important characteristics of views, but there are very few studies that addressed window views in dense urban environments and their influence...
In recent decades, the quality of life in cities has declined due to rapid growth. The global ecological crisis and climate change are leading to pollution and overheating of the environment, resulting in deteriorating health conditions and social se...
A window view affects a person’s well-being and comfort. The effect of visual contact with nature on people depends on the quality of the outside scenery, which in turn depends on parameters such as the number of visible layers, the distance to...
Urbanisation and densification of the built environment is an important feature of the future sustainable environment, which importantly influences the window view quality. This survey addresses a research gap on unfavourable reactions to window view...
Observing peaceful natural environments has been shown to restore cognitive abilities and reduce stress. As a result, visual access to natural environments is becoming increasingly common in educational settings. However, most current research on cla...
6 May 2024
Previous studies have shown that natural window views are beneficial for mental health, but it is still unclear which specific features constitute a ‘natural’ window view. On the other hand, studies on image analysis found that low-level ...
As people spend extended periods of time indoors, stress and negative emotions caused by work have become increasingly difficult to ignore. Observing window views is widely considered an effective method to alleviate stress and promote mental health....
Residential window views provide a perspective on urban landscapes that is difficult to observe at large scale. This study uses real-estate panoramas to quantify residential window-view composition, describe its spatial distribution in Wuhan, and exa...
We improved the three-dimensional (3D) crosstalk level of multi-view 3D displays using a lens array with small f-number, thereby facilitating a wide 3D viewing window. In particular, we designed a polarization-dependent-switching liquid crystal (LC)-...
In this study, we enhance the angular-selective light absorption capabilities of guest–host liquid crystal (GHLC) cells by introducing a novel design featuring a uniform lying helix (ULH) structure. Previously GHLC cells, predominantly vertical...
This paper presents a computational method for spatial visualization and probability evaluations of window view access in architecture based on human eyes’ vision fields and biophilic recommendations. Window view access establishes occupants’ visual...
Modern lifestyles result in people spending 90% of their time indoors, where windows serve as a unique component providing an outdoor view and enabling visual experiences. Chromogenic windows, which adjust both thermal and visual conditions, represen...
17 August 2022
This study explores how windows with a green view might affect the mental health (i.e., depressive/anxiety symptoms) of home-isolated populations. An online survey was conducted among 508 adults isolated under government quarantine policies for COVID...
This review investigates the role of building windows in supporting occupant well-being through access to natural views and daylight. This review synthesizes recent interdisciplinary research from environmental psychology, building science, and human...
Quality of life is a multidimensional concept that includes characteristics of the residence and the wider living environment. The aim of the paper is to examine whether age groups differ in satisfaction with selected spatial characteristics of the r...
This paper investigates whether various forms of green spaces in the residential environment are associated with city dwellers’ life satisfaction and their willingness to relocate. Previous research on different forms of green spaces in the residenti...
We aimed to investigate what broiler chickens prefer when given free choice between a barn side with artificial lighting only as opposed to the other barn side with natural light through glass windows and artificial light. Eighty-five 1 day-old male...
The autonomous landing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) relies on a precise relative 6D pose between platforms. Existing model-based monocular pose estimation methods need an accurate 3D model of the target. They cannot handle the absence of an acc...
Background/Objectives: Intraoperative margin assessments of oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are fundamentally limited by sampling errors and freezing artifacts inherent to standard frozen section analysis. We developed a mobile, multi-scale, wide...
Studies on the effects of visitors on zoo animals have shown mixed findings and as a result, the manner in which visitors affect zoo animals remains unclear for many species, including a rarely studied taxa such as penguins. Penguins are a common zoo...
Stress states are increasing with global urbanization, but evidence on the physiological impact of urban blue-space exposure remains limited compared to green spaces. In this randomized within-subject crossover study, we examined the physiological ef...
Naturally ventilated office spaces present a dual challenge: open windows are sources of thermal comfort and acoustic disturbances. Despite growing interest in adaptive comfort frameworks, the acoustic adaptation effects specific to naturally ventila...
Aim of the study: The aim of this study was to perform a comparative analysis of severity of discordant aortic stenosis (AS) assessment using multiposition scanning and the standard apical window. Materials and Methods: All patients (n = 104) underwe...
In the domain of deep-sea buoyancy material applications, hollow ceramic spheres, known for their high strength and low mass-to-drainage ratio, contribute to increased buoyancy and payload capacity enhancement for deep submersibles, constituting buoy...
Windows Push Notifications (WPN) is a relevant part of Windows 10 interaction with the user. It is comprised of badges, tiles and toasts. Important and meaningful data can be conveyed by notifications, namely by so-called toasts that can popup with i...
Perforated windows are essential landscape elements in Chinese classical gardens that combine artistic design with multiple functions. This study examines the Ho family Garden, a representative Yangzhou salt merchant garden, to classify perforated wi...
While previous research has shown the use of attachable air-caps on windows to efficiently reduce a building’s energy consumption, the air-caps considered had to be attached to the entire window’s surface, thus limiting the occupants’ view and creati...
What if the window of our cars is a magic window, which transforms dark views outside of the window at night into bright ones as we can see in the daytime? To realize such a window, one of important requirements is that the stream of transformed imag...
Low-latitude plateau classrooms, such as those in Kunming, experience intense solar radiation that often causes insufficient far-window illumination, excessive near-window brightness, and viewing-direction glare under side-lighting conditions. To inv...
One of the measures to reduce energy consumption in buildings in Nordic countries is limiting the window area, as windows contribute to significantly higher heat loss than walls during a long hot season. This conflicts with user needs for daylight an...
In this study, we analyzed angular-selective absorption in a guest–host liquid crystal (GHLC) cell for its application in smart windows. For reducing the energy consumption, angular-selective absorption is desired because the light transmitted...
Building penetrations are the most-potent elements providing daylight and moderating the lighting energy consumption and affecting indoor comfort and consequent energy usage. In a semi-tropical climate with a green environment such as Sydney, there i...
Contemporary urban planning increasingly refers to pro-environmental standards, among which the 3–30–300 principle plays a significant role. One of its key assumptions is that at least three trees should be visible from every dwelling. Ho...
Carbon black (CB) is used in polyethylene (PE) pipes to protect against thermal and photooxidation. However, when CB is not properly dispersed in the PE matrix during processing, white regions having little or no CB concentration, known as “win...
Advanced visual display technologies typically supplement the out-of-window view with separate displays (e.g., analog speedometer or artificial horizon) or with overlays (e.g., projected speedometer or map). Studies on head-up displays suggest that a...
Indoor biophilic design may support student well-being and learning, yet evidence relevant to higher education interior environments has not undergone systematic synthesis with formal quality appraisal. This systematic mixed-methods review followed t...
The photochromic coating is a promising smart technology that provides different optical properties in response to daylight variations. The application of photochromic coatings with various colors/shades on window glass is one of the current research...
26 April 2023
Exposure to nature views has been associated with diverse mental health and cognitive capacity benefits. Yet, much of this evidence was derived in adult samples and typically only involves residential views of nature. Findings from studies with child...
The fluorescence microscope has been widely used to explore dynamic processes in vivo in mouse brains, with advantages of a large field-of-view and high spatiotemporal resolution. However, owing to background light and tissue scattering, the single-p...
People with bipolar disorder (BD) present with mood instability resulting from more frequent and intense emotions in response to environmental conditions relative to healthy subjects. The aim of this study was to investigate the time course of emotio...
The visual linking of a building’s occupants with the outside views is a basic property of windows. However, vision through windows is not yet a metricized factor. The previous research employs a human survey methods to assess the vision throug...
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