自然與都市景觀對創造思考、注意力恢復力及生理反應的影響

Influences of Natural and Urban Landscapes on Creative Thinking, Attention Restoration and Physiological Responses

研究指出自然環境對人的健康、學習及工作上具有正面的幫助，因此本研究欲了解不同環境中的生心理反應與創造思考的關係。以二個自然景觀點及二個街道景觀點進行現地實驗，實驗步驟依次為感受現地環境並完成環境恢復力知覺量表，戴上生理感測儀器感受環境並進行創造思考作業，最後為感受環境的生理放鬆後測。研究結果顯示，自然環境相較於都市環境在創造思考力的原創性及變通性面項、注意力恢復力及生理放鬆效益上有較佳的表現。

Environment affects physical and psychological reactions has been approved by many studies. The benefits of natural landscapes on human health, learning and working are emphasized by landscape researchers and designer. Creative thinking is an important mental process by value of ''looking for the possibilities of things'' (White, 1990). Does natured landscape environment affect creativity? In order to understand the relationship between psychological benefits and creative thinking in different environments, this study conducted experiments in four sites including two natural and two urban environments. The participants experienced one of the experimental environments and completed the perceived restorative scale firstly. Second, they wore the biofeedback sensor, then experienced the environment and took creative tasks. Last, they experienced the environment and post-test their physiological response. Total experiment took about 25 minutes to complete. The results indicated that the natural environment was significantly more restorative than urban environment on both psychological and physiological aspects. Moreover, people performed better on originality and flexibility of the creative task in natural environment compared to urban environment. To sum up, this study shown that natural environment is more restorative and facilitated creative then urban environment.