Land use decision making in a virtual environment

Abstract

This chapter outlines a study that investigates the use of a virtual decision-making environment as a tool for better understanding individual land use choice behaviour. This chapter describes a preliminary study into the extent to which peoples’ land use decisions are affected by varying the visual and social context provided in the virtual environment. Early results indicate that individuals’ land use choices do vary under different configurations of the virtual environment, although not always as anticipated. Under more complex configurations of the virtual environment, users tend to deviate from what would be predicted based on their stated value priorities. Several users found that the ..