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The Effects of Environmentally Modulated Visual Accessibility to Caregivers on Early Peer Interactions
Methods and Measures: Growth mixture modeling: A method for identifying differences in longitudinal change among unobserved groups
Commentary on Plomin, R. (1994). Advice to the new social genetics: lessons partly learned from the genetics of mental development
Sequential Variations in the Interactions of Caregivers and Hospitalized Seriously Ill Children and Adolescents
Isovists as a means to predict spatial experience and behavior
Two experiments are presented studying interrelations between spatial properties of environments and both experience and spatial behavior. In order to systematically study such interrelations, a generic description of space is required that provides comparability between arbitrarily shaped environments and that captures behaviorally relevant properties of space. In this study the suitability of isovist derived measurands for this purpose was explored. Isovist-based descriptions of 16 virtual indoor scenes were correlated with behavioral data from two experimental tasks. For both tasks, an active navigation task and a rating of experiential qualities, strong correlations between subjects‘ behavior and measurands derived from isovist analysis were found. The general outcomes suggest that isovist measurands are indeed a promising means to predict experience of space and spatial behavior for the chosen experimental tasks