Perver uses geospatial analytics to improve our understanding of how natural and built environments contribute to active living, health, quality of life, and sustainability. She develops immersive virtual environments to understand how urban, neighborhood, and open space environments support physical activity, psychological restoration, safety, park use, and quality of urban life. Other interests include 3-D city modeling for urban planning, urban design, innovative public participation methods, and cartographic design.

Roles

• Fellows
• Instructors

Publications

• An exploratory study of perceived safety in a neighborhood park using immersive virtual environments (2018)
• Can trail spatial attributes predict trail use level in urban forest park? An examination integrating GPS data and space syntax theory (2018)
• Exploring perceived restoration potential of urban green enclosure through immersive virtual environments (2018)
• Spatial distributions and use patterns of user groups in urban forest parks: An examination utilizing GPS tracker (2018)
• Urban park pathway design characteristics and senior walking behavior (2017)
• Do configurational attributes matter in context of urban parks? Park pathway configurational attributes and senior walking (2016)
• Residents' perception of cultural activities as quality of life in Istanbul (2015)
• Social and environmental factors related to boys' and girls' park-based physical activity (2015)
• Park use among youth and adults: Examination of individual, social, and urban form factors (2014)
• Does intelligibility affect place legibility? Understanding the relationship between objective and subjective evaluations of the urban environment (2012)

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