Academic Consortium Publications for November 2023

There is growing interest in understanding how places are experienced. Enter the Sensory Walk Questionnaire, introduced in a recent publication by Pohjanheimo et al. (2023). Subjects stroll about and answer a structured ballot, which includes questions about attribute presence, intensity, liking, and appropriateness. Spaces are characterized using 136 sensory terms in four broad domains: visual, auditory, olfactory, and somatosensory. The questionnaire was used to evaluate three points of an indoor lunch restaurant, but the “walk” can be applied to evaluate both indoor and outdoor places. Perfect for your next shopping mall trip or botanical garden visit, or perhaps even less conventional places: cruise ships, Everest basecamps, and space stations (calling all astronauts @nasa). If adapted for a lunar landing, we think it could be called the Sensory Moonwalk Questionnaire. Read about this and other peer-reviewed publications from members of the Compusense Academic Consortium here.