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

• Modeling restorative potential of urban environments by coupling viewscape analysis of lidar data with experiments in immersive virtual environments (2020)
• Neighborhood Dynamics and Long-Term Change (2020)
• Rural tourism microentrepreneurs' self-representation through photography: a counter-hegemonic approach (2019)
• 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)

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