Possible Town Hall Surveying Methods

There are 5 elements of an environment which would help make a virtural world seem to be reality, other than smell; Geometry, Lighting, Sounds, Interaction and Texture.

Methods:

Geometry:

Photos with Scale rulers: By placing a scaled ruler, 1m or 60cm, against the object or wall, and then take a photo, we can reduce the time to measure the area as we can judge the size of surrounding elements at home.

Trigonometry: To measure heights that aren't reachable or slopes. Image Modeler and Photo modeler help do all the trig for you (plug-ins in Autocad)

Gradients: To measture slopes.

Laser Measure: Measuring, acurately to 3mm, the shape of the space.

Lighting:

Photos: Will help record general placement of lights and shadows and their colours.

Video: Will help capture flickering of lights, movement patterns.

Light Meter: Use to measure the amount of light in the space. Normally used to help photographers determine how much exposure is needed.

Sound:

Decibel Meter: Measures Sound, intensity and loudness
Video Recorder, or Sound Recorder: Measures what is heard and where

Interaction:

Photos: Capturing specific experiences and movements.

Vibration meter: Footsteps (however not as affective near the train)

Heat Scanner: To measure where people are, or where they are congregating

Human Mapping: Plotting dots on a map where people congregate- more sparse, there are less people, and where there is more, there are more people. Over time (peak hour)

Sensors: The ones that are on the automatic doors of shopping centres.

Requesting Tickets: Requesting the transit office for how many tickets are bought to go to Central (only find the numbers)