Subjective responses toward daylight changes in window views: Assessing dynamic environmental attributes in an immersive experiment

In urbanized settlements, ensuring access to the outdoor environment is essential stimulate well-being responses indoors. Windows provide aesthetic and natural features bring in clues about time, weather, seasonal conditions outdoors. Although dynamic environmental attributes are inherent view qualities, no studies have explored effects induced by such on individuals, limiting extent which these might inform design guidelines for sustained indoor well-being. To address this gap, a virtual reality experiment was conducted analyze subjective lightness changes views with respect three constructs (i.e., preference, recovery, imageability). A novel framework classifying, capturing, analyzing urban extended generate stimuli material consisting of static scenes panorama images 360° videos). Attitudes toward were tested an adjusted rating instrument. Results showed significant interactions between type change factors presented format. Mean scores presenting variations higher than those observed identical portraying variations. Low coefficients variation individual questions found, suggesting adequacy instruments evaluate views. Moderate high positive Pearson correlation found construct pairs, indicating links approaches examine The findings study demonstrate that attitudes strongly mediated presence luminous