網路數位城市的空間認知界面-視覺性分析

Abstract

網際環境中的數位城市，透過城市的隱喻，整合了都市生活的資訊，並創造虛擬空間，提供人們在其中生活。然而人類是如何進入這新浮現的數位空間，來感知並在其『空間』中瀏覽。本研究將從空間認知的觀點，來探討網際環境的空間知識結構，並以視覺性來分析網路數位城市的空間認知界面。 在研究網際空間與數位城市的空間結構時，網際空間性的認知是重要的研究取向；而多數的研究都是被Lynch在認知圖繪的空間性知識所影響。這些研究指出人類在網際環境中的行為，是基於實體環境中某些相似的空間行為與經驗。因此，本研究透過空間學習、認知圖繪與瀏覽探路的行為理論，來理解人類在網際與實體環境中的認知經驗關係；以及在空間中瀏覽時，空間知識之心理再現的空間性資訊。而基於網際空間性認知的研究取向，本研究將先描述Kwan所提出的認知模型，來作為探討實體與數位城市在空間認知關係的切入點。 因此，將透過分析空間認知與空間知識來修正Kwan認知模型的不足之處，提出一個包含網際環境空間知識的初期模型。然後透過對數位媒材視覺性因子的認知實驗，來發展初期模型在圖形界面中的視覺性空間因子關係。最後將修正後的模型，以網際環境中的數位城市來驗證說明。

By using a city metaphor, the Cyber-environment as digital cities integrates urban information and creates virtual spaces for people living in the cities. However, human how to entry into the new emerging digital place, to percept and navigate themselves in around “space”? This paper studied by the viewpoint of spatial cognition in order to explore the spatial knowledge of cyber-environments. By exploring the visual factors to interpret that human how to image and percept the spatial form of cyber-environments through with the interface of spatial cognition. The cyberspatial cognition approach in studying spatial structures of cyberspace and digital cities is an important access. Interestingly, the most studies of cyberspace and digital cities were influenced by the spatial knowledge of cognitive mapping, which has developed by Lynch. Their research had indicated that human behavior in cyberspace bases on certain similarities with spatial behavior in the physical world. Many above-mention theories about spatial learning, cognitive mapping, and wayfinding behavior are helpful for understanding the cognitive experience of human in cyberspace and physical space. We examine our mental representations of spatial knowledge include information about spatial relationships and about how to navigate in our environment. With this background on spatial knowledge and cognitive cyberspace, we will describe Kwan’s conceptual model to understand cyberspatial cognition, then to treat the cognitive difference on the physical and digital city. The first step of this research is to study the processes of spatial cognition and the spatial knowledge from the researches between cognition and space, then to revise the pre-conceptual model of Kwan’s cyberspatial cognition to be the interface of cognition and space by the spatial knowledge. Secondly, we base on the model to develop visual facts of the GUI by the cognitive experiment of digital media. In the end, we verify the theoretical model by the online observation of digital city, to provide the spatial elements to describe the model.