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Shaping pedestrian movement through playful
interventions in security planning: what do field
surveys suggest?
Marialena Nikolopoulou, Karen Martin & Ben Dalton
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Shaping pedestrian movement through playful interventions
in security planning: what do ield surveys suggest?
Marialena Nikolopouloua, Karen Martina and Ben Daltonb
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Centre for Architecture and Sustainable Environment, Kent School of Architecture, University of Kent,
Canterbury, UK; bFaculty of Art, Environment & Technology, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK
ABSTRACT
The control and shaping of pedestrian movement recurs as an
aspect of security planning for crowded spaces. Using the concepts
of triangulation, performance and low, this paper presents a series
of experiments designed to shape pedestrian movement patterns in
public spaces in diferent spatial and operation contexts, by eliciting
noticeable behaviours and disrupting routine use of space. The
hypothesis investigated is that playful, non-obstructive interventions
foster a positive social experience yet can be used to shape pedestrian
movement. The interventions examined were around the themes
of loor marking and mirrors. Analysis demonstrated that the
interventions were able to create zones of attraction and exclusion,
engage people’s curiosity and elicit playful actions. Habituation, goaldirected behaviour and the inluence of increased cognitive load at
personal level were all important factors responsible for reducing the
level of engagement with an intervention. The results suggest that
increased understanding between environmental and interpersonal
stimuli and behavioural responses can provide guidance in using
socially acceptable design interventions to inluence use of space in
diferent operational contexts, contributing to sustainable security.
Introduction
Design can play a strategic role in altering the low and shaping pedestrian movement
in a space across diferent scales. Such strategies are considered desirable for a range of
purposes from commerce and entertainment to security. The ields of art, architecture
and human-computer interaction can provide a broad palette of potential interventions
for this aim. This paper presents a series of experiments designed to shape people low
and pedestrian movement in various types of public spaces, in a positive social context for
security planning in counter-terrorism. It investigated the hypothesis that playful, non-obstructive interventions foster a positive social experience yet can be used to alter pedestrian
movement.
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Security design for public space includes consideration of a wide range of potential
elements from landscaping, gateways and buildings, to barriers, crowd control, sculpture,
furniture and materials, to signage, smart architecture, games and advertising, to police
tactics, performance and social stakeholder norms. These can be further divided into either
permanent or temporary interventions.
There is a growing emphasis on the role of design in counter-terrorism policy and
research for public spaces. The UK planning process now requires evidence of counter-terrorism security design for new projects (RIBA 2010). At the same time, there has been an
increasing recognition that reduction of fear, and in particular community acceptance
and comfort, must play a primary role in counter-terrorism policy, and design practice in
particular, if it is to be efective and sustainable (Braithwaite 2013). permanent interventions have progressed signiicantly in this respect, with a shift from often alarmist and
ad hoc ‘strong-arm tactics’ to architecturally sympathetic and socially acceptable design
interventions.
Unfortunately, too frequently counter-terrorism design interventions have resulted in
hastily retroitted target-hardening or ad hoc solutions focusing on extensive attempts to
disrupt covert terrorist activities, with little consideration for the resulting public realm,
openness of the space and social interaction. Target hardening is visible in the construction of the ‘ring of steel’ fortiications, around the City of london following the Bishopsgate
bombing in 1993 (Coafee, o’Hare, and Hawkesworth 2009) and in the sunken paths encircling the Washington Monument, Washington DC (Benton-Short 2007). Such authority-focused responses can be disorientating and threatening for the general public, diminishing
the quality of experience of a space (Benton-Short 2007). Furthermore, the proliferation of
security bollards and barriers has caused detrimental impact to the quality of the space in
many urban environments (FeMA 430 2007), leading to what the National Capital Urban
Design and Security plan for Washington referred to in 2002 as the “present intolerable
environment” (NCpC 2002, 5).
petroski’s exasperation with the above situation is relected in a paradigm shift with evidence that:
… architects and engineers have been rising to the occasion and recapturing public spaces
from ugly Jersey barriers, unattractive metal detectors, and other oppressive obstructions of
virtually no design value. (petroski 2004, 166)
Indeed, recent strategies for securing public space have shifted from such overt security
measures to less conspicuous responses such as the manipulation of form, materials and
coniguration to create spaces, spatial features and street furniture that intend to inluence
people’s movement and emotional state (Adey 2008; Coafee, o’Hare, and Hawkesworth
2009).
In comparison to permanent architecture and built environment policy, temporary interventions have lagged behind. Analysis of existing counter-terrorism strategies for temporary
interventions in public space highlights an overemphasis on a small palette of authority-focused approaches. However, a wider palette of socially acceptable interventions is required
for long-term sustainable efectiveness (Martin, Dalton, and Nikolopoulou 2013). Here, this
paper focuses speciically on testing temporary interventions for shaping pedestrian low.
The emphasis on design is highlighted in a recent Home oice report (2012) which provides advice on how to integrate such measures at diferent stages, from conception to
development so that “… vulnerability of crowded places to terrorist attack can be tackled
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in an imaginative and considered way” (Home oice 2012, 3). This last point is critical if we
are to develop and manage public spaces in way that will not have a detrimental efect on
the quality of the public realm, but will be socially responsive, enhancing a sense of vitality
and well-being.
This paper focuses on the above dilemma, investigating whether it is possible to shape
pedestrian movement in public spaces, in what the Home oice aspire to be an imaginative
and considered way, applying efective uses of disruption while being socially responsive,
fostering corresponding routine and comfort. This is done employing the concepts of ‘triangulation’, ‘performance’ and ‘low’, as suggested by Martin, Dalton, and Nikolopoulou (2013),
to describe the desired efects of disruption in the current publicly visible counter-terrorism
measures. The irst section of this paper provides an overview of the literature on aspects
of pedestrian movement low that are currently employed in counter-terrorism strategies.
This informed the approach here. The interventions are described in the second section,
with the analysis and indings described in the third section. The inal section highlights the
conclusions drawn from this work.
Efects of disruption in publicly visible counter terrorism
The manipulation of the built environment for social change has been extensively explored
at diferent scales extending the concepts of ‘natural surveillance’ from Jacobs (1961) and
Newman (1972) to the context of counter-terrorism (Secured by Design 2011). Such ‘natural policing’ (Hillier 2004) is at the core of crime prevention through environmental design
(CpTeD), which has been employed globally (Cozens, Saville, and Hillier 2005) with the goal
of reducing both fear and incidence of crime. Natural surveillance can be linked with social
resilience, as increasing social cohesion and connections is identiied as a means of augmenting social resilience (Durodié 2004). Indeed, researchers have highlighted the synergies
between CpTeD and urban sustainability (Du plessis 1999; Cozens 2002), however, understanding how to achieve this social resilience is challenging.
Triangulation (Whyte 1988), the process that provides a linkage between people and the
stimulus for strangers to talk to each other, can be understood as a temporary disruption of
a state of ‘civil inattention’. In counter-terrorism strategy, reducing civil-inattention acts to
heighten opportunity for identifying and reporting of unusual activity of a potential hostile actor, or an unexpected item in a public space. This concept provides a framework to
understand existing counter terrorism signage, announcements and security, and begins to
suggest the ways in which alternative design approaches could support heightened awareness and reporting.
Numerous examples from art and advertising illustrate how temporary, playful interventions can increase social connections, encourage social interaction and raise engagement
with public space (lozano-Hemmer 2001; thefuntheory.com, 2009; Martin, Dalton, and
Nikolopoulou 2013). This provided the informed background for a series of interventions
to be employed that can inluence movement patterns.
publicly visible counter-terrorism interventions are often intended to evoke performances
from people in a space (edwards 2010) in an attempt to raise levels of discomfort. The goal of
this type of intervention is to elicit behavioural cues that help security staf identify people
who have something to hide. A visible security regime to ‘deter, detect and delay’ can play
an important role in deterring suspicious terrorist activity, including hostile reconnaissance
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(Home oice 2012). Initiatives such as BASS (Behaviour Analysis Screening System) in the UK
and SpoT (Securing passengers by observation Techniques) in the US train security staf to
try to identify suspicious behaviour and body language in response to temporary, high-visibility disruption of spaces such as temporary cordons and high visibility patrols (Coafee
et al. 2008). The queue and search routines of the archway metal detector are some of the
various security interventions that require pedestrians to perform in public view. For someone conducting hostile reconnaissance, the deterrence seems to lie in the performance of
normality that these interventions require of them.
In the context of deterring hostile reconnaissance, design and art can create physical
examples of unexpected playful disruption or a heightened sense of being on view. Such
design concepts are not only useful for stimulating triangulation but can also be efective
at encouraging performance from audiences.
Shaping the low of pedestrian movement is an integral aspect of security planning for
crowded spaces. examples vary from physical barriers to shape crowd low, particularly in
airports, stations and sports events, to overt displays of security as a means of ‘heating up’
key locations (Stratfor 2010) to move potential hostile reconnaissance away from one area
and into other areas where covert surveillance may be.
physical and social characteristics of a space are inter-dependent, and changes to one
element will elicit change in the other (Hillier and Sahbaz 2009). As an example, airport
designers manipulate form, materials and coniguration to elicit speciic emotions and to
direct passengers’ movement around airport departure areas (Adey 2008).
literature from criminology discusses how people carrying out crime develop a ‘crime
template’ or idealized site for their criminal act and then try to match this location with places
they already know or those that they come into contact with (Brantingham and Brantingham
1993). As a result, the ideal crime location is one where criminals are comfortable and feel
that they it in. By intervening at the point where situational aspects of covert activity converge, that is the times and places where the actors, location and opportunity for criminal
endeavours overlap, the intended action can be interrupted (Cornish 1994).
In the context of security planning in public places, this suggests a particularly strong
efect on low for disruptions that heighten crowd pleasure for many, while reducing feelings of control over ‘crime templates’ for a few. playfulness can be particularly efective in
encouraging pedestrians to engage, whilst reducing feelings of personal control through
disruption of routine for those with malicious intent.
In this framework using the concepts of triangulation, performance and low, the aim of
the study here was to design, install and evaluate a series of temporary interventions in
public spaces of diferent types that can shape pedestrian movement pattern by eliciting
noticeable behaviours and disrupting routine. This can be employed as a strategy to augment
existing policing techniques for identifying people engaged in suspicious activities. In all
cases, the interventions had to be able to win public support, which can be considered as
vital for counter-terrorism in order to reduce public anxiety and increase social resilience
and cohesion.
Design of interventions
The design of the interventions has built on existing work in the area of deception studies
and counter-terrorism, borrowing vocabulary from the arts. Martin, Dalton, and Nikolopoulou
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(2013) argued how a palette of art, advertising, architecture and entertainment projects
ofered examples of unexpected interventions that can heighten attention, disrupt planned
routine and elicit noticeable behaviours. The Safer Spaces Design guidelines (Triggs et al.
2012) advocate taking a design-led approach, drawing on designers’ perspectives, processes
and methods to develop site-speciic, participatory processes that build on current research
in counter-terrorism to create responses that are efective yet publically acceptable.
In choosing playful interventions to test, emphasis was placed on techniques that might
dissuade or reveal signs of malicious activity in addition to shaping general pedestrian low.
Findings and methods from deception studies were adapted for the experiments. The potential
for unanticipated questions to elicit noticeable responses in interviews has been discussed in
literature (Vrij et al. 2009). This method was appropriated and the studies were designed to
initiate unanticipated interactions and moments of public performance. The literature suggests
that asking temporal questions when suspecting a scripted answer can help reveal deceptive
responses. The analogy in physical space is shaping of crowd low to expose temporary areas
of high or low occupancy that in turn may highlight individual movement routines. The strategic use of evidence gathered from observations of typical movement patterns was used to
decide the location of the interventions with the goal of zones of attraction. These zones aimed
to encourage people to linger in areas where movement is normally lowing without pause.
Types of intervention
The hypothesis here is that playful, non-obstructive interventions foster a positive social
experience yet can be used to shape pedestrian movement. With this hypothesis in mind,
the aims of the interventions were to (a) alter the low of pedestrian movement through a
space, (b) create zones of attraction and exclusion within the space, and (c) engage people’s
curiosity and elicit playful actions. The irst two of these aims intend to address the ability of
interventions to shape pedestrian movement. The third aim addresses the ability of interventions to foster heightened awareness within a positive social experience. The design
interventions were intended to be lightweight, low-cost and temporary, which could be
installed for short periods of time as required.
Two categories of non-obstructive interventions were investigated, around the themes
of loor markings and mirrors, in a range of spatial and situational contexts. Floor markings
intervene in a space by changing the appearance of the ground. They were chosen as a
suitable form of intervention as they can guide movement through a space or establish
points of interest, yet do not physically impede pedestrian low. Floor marks are regularly
used in public spaces to assist direction to services (e.g. train platforms, lifts, taxis, etc.) or
advertising. As it is not necessary for pedestrians to alter their movement path in order to
pass through the space investigated, changes in behaviour in response to the intervention
can be attributed to engagement with the intervention.
Mirrors were considered as a form of intervention that suggests the potential to catch
and hold attention, and may also foster heightened self-awareness. Merleau-ponty (1958)
suggests that seeing relections of oneself in the mirror is engaging yet alienating. Becoming
a spectator of oneself is an illusory perception, which while often playful can be confusing
at the level of emotions, universally unsettling and even a source of anxiety and fear in the
context of heightened self-awareness (Rochat and Zahavi 2011). This unsettling experience
has been explored in various experimental studies investigating deceit. Mirrors have also
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been demonstrated to be a potential means to distinguish liars from truth-tellers in contained
environments (lawson et al. 2011, 2013).
Building on these indings, it was speculated that people trying to hide or disguise their
activities would feel uncomfortable seeing their relection in addition to the mirror surface
acting to increase the likelihood of an intervention attracting the attention of passers-by,
visually exaggerating change and movement in the space. Finally, mirrors ofer the potential
for altering movement low through using the relective surface to create playful and unexpected efects, evoking the spectacle of a hall-of-mirrors. By strategically placing mirrors in
unanticipated locations people may slow down, or stop, to investigate. It was speculated that
the sense of movement and change produced by this type of intervention would contribute
to eliciting curiosity from passers-by.
Two loor-marking and one mirror experiments were integrated with deception studies
to explore the efects of disruption, self-awareness and increased cognitive load on the
behaviour elicited by the interventions. In the experimental studies, the general public were
considered to be non-primed participants representing the behaviour of individuals with
benign intentions. This revealed how the interventions it into patterns of everyday behaviour and the types of response they elicit. The participants in the deception studies acted
as primed participants and they were not aware of the link between the deception study
and the interventions.
The hypothesis was that primed participants are involved with their task to such an extent
that they are less aware of their environment or less willing to deviate from prepared scripts
of activity, and therefore exhibit less playful behaviour than non-primed participants. This
could then elicit noticeable diferences in behaviour between those engaged in benign and
suspicious activities.
Methodology
A number of studies were developed for each type of intervention between May 2011
and May 2012. pilot studies were run for both types of intervention to assess their
viability before installing them in more challenging public environments. It was essential
for all the selected spaces to have a high footfall of transitory routes passing through
the space while also containing a cross-section of pedestrian uses with longer dwell
times.
In addition, all spaces were publicly accessible, whether privately or publicly owned.
Action research techniques enabled designing, implementing and analyzing interventions
in an iterative cycle. lessons learned and indings uncovered in one study informed subsequent experiments. grounded theory analysis was used to reveal and construct hypotheses
of how people respond to interventions in public space (Strauss and Corbin 1998).
Diferent methods of data analysis were employed. The researchers observing the spaces
were taking structured notes, while they also used maps to record movement patterns and
novel behaviours. Further analysis included video transcribing, along with automated video
recording in order to sample over longer time periods. For the selection of the public spaces
for the experiments, an essential criterion was that cameras could be positioned to capture
top-down views of pedestrian movement. Researchers watched the video output and noted
pre-selected behaviours, for example, direction of movement or pausing by the intervention. Spatial analysis of the movement and behaviour of passers-by enabled patterns of
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movement to be visualized and indicated how passers-by chose to position themselves
in relation to the intervention, which was supplemented by MATlAB image analysis. Heatmaps of space usage were derived from hand-mapped observations. This technique was
extended through the use of computer vision tracking of pedestrian movement using the
openCV library implementation of blobtracking. Averaging collections of movement trails
and normalizing for the busiest section of the map generated heat-maps. Visualizing patterns
in this way allows for analysis of space usage.
Questionnaires and surveys ofered an additional method of data collection for three of
the interventions. This provided further insights into the attitudes of passers-by to the space
and respective interventions. The responses enabled highlighting the relationship between
the properties of the space, the intervention and behaviour.
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Experimental studies
Seven diferent experiments are presented with diferent types of loor markings and mirrors
presenting the main interventions.
Floor-marking studies
Four diferent loor-marking interventions were designed, installed and studied in diferent
operational contexts of increasing complexity.
Tapelines
A pilot study was carried out with a pattern created using tape on the loor on the campus
at the University of Kent. The pattern was based on one of paul Klee’s drawings and covered
an area approximately 8 m long. The design was composed of a tapeline in two contrasting
colours, luorescent pink and luorescent yellow. This was to ensure visibility while minimizing
the possibility for any confusion with tape used to indicate safety issues.
The tapeline was positioned to relect the direction of pedestrian low through the space.
A path joins the area about halfway along the length of the line. The path is perpendicular
to the line. The hypothesis was that people might change their existing path of movement
and begin following the line. This response would be considered playful behaviour.
Tape maze
The next stage of loor intervention consisted of a maze design covering half the width of the
corridor in Warwick Business School (WBS).1 It was created out of black tape with pink tape
feet at each entrance to the maze to indicate that people should walk through it, covering
an area of 5 m x 2.5 m.
The intervention was presented to students as an artwork. In addition, WBS ran a deception study, where participants had to lie about the contents of a bag they were given to carry
along the corridor. They were not told of any connection between the deception study and
the maze intervention. The video rerecording was for four days.
Floor text: Portsmouth
The intervention consisted of a paragraph of text printed onto vinyl appropriate for attaching to outdoor loor surfaces. It was a simple design of black text on a white background,
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4 m x 3 m, placed in the centre of guildhall Square, portsmouth, for eight days. The space
consisted of low-density population at any one time, with a number of well-used pedestrian
commuter routes through the square along with a cafe, lunch spots and proximity to public
amenities, including a library.
The text was a paragraph from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (1839), from a section
of the novel set in portsmouth. No accreditation for the text was given on the vinyl, as the
authors speculated this anonymity would provoke curiosity and increase the chance of the
text being read in its entirety. portsmouth strongly associates with Charles Dickens who
was born in the town. During the time the loor vinyl was in place, the city celebrated the
bicentenary of his birth.
Floor text: Glasgow Queen Street station
A similar intervention to the loor vinyl used in portsmouth was applied to the Queen Street
railway station in glasgow. The space consisted of high-density population, particularly at
rush hour, with a mix of focused train activities, travelling directly to a platform or waiting
for information, along with shopping and cafes. The researchers speculated that people on
the station concourse would look around the environment while they waited. The proposal
was that the large loor vinyl would arouse their curiosity and draw them over to investigate
further.
The 3 m x 3 m loor vinyl was installed on the station concourse. It contained text from
the 1865 edition of Bradshaw’s Tourist Guide to the United Kingdom describing glasgow city
and the railway journeys it was possible to take from glasgow at this time. It was oriented
towards the passenger information boards at the far end of the concourse. Researchers
experimented with colouring the background and text, however, using colour created the
impression that the loor vinyl was a piece of advertising. The simple design with text in
black on a white background minimized this efect.
Beyond the video recording and analysis, surveys were also used, aiming to understand
if the loor vinyl contributed to a positive environment for occupants of the space. A small
number of the individuals on the station concourse, who had shown an interest in the intervention, were invited to take part. The questions focused on people’s perception of the
intervention (see Appendix A).
Mirror studies
Three studies with mirrors were designed and carried out in diferent settings, employing
both physical and digital mirrors ( Figure 1).
Library mirrors
A series of three mirrors were set up outside the entrance to the library at the University of
Kent, a busy area with students entering the library or waiting to meet friends. The mirrors
were set up to create a feedback efect as one passed between them.
Digital mirror: BBC Big Screen
This intervention was installed in guildhall Square, portsmouth. The BBC Big Screen is a
permanent ixture in the square. This study used the application Hand from Above by Chris
o’Shea (2009) to create a digital mirror (Figure 1). Hand from Above was designed for a BBC
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Figure 1. Mirrors (left) on the station concourse, Glasgow; (right) digital mirror with Hand from Above on
the BBC Big Screen, Portsmouth.
Big Screen and shows a live image of the space on the BBC Big Screen, efectively acting as
a digital mirror. At irregular intervals a large hand entered the screen to tickle or pick up one
of the people seen on the video image.
The authors believed that the Hand from Above artwork would create a fun experience for
visitors to the square. This assumption was based on documentation of previous showings
of Hand from Above (o’Shea 2009). The study ran for a period of a month, where for 12 days
a parallel study on deception with primed participants was also taking place, run by the
University of portsmouth.2
The deception study required primed participants to visit the square for a
photography task. Half of the participants were instructed to take photographs for a
tourist brochure and the others for use in hostile reconnaissance. The participants who
took photographs for use in hostile reconnaissance were asked to lie about the purpose
of their photographs during a subsequent interview with researchers. participants were
not told of any connection between the deception study and the Hand from Above
artwork. There were 83 participants in the deception study, 64 of whom were captured
on video.
A short questionnaire to elicit participants’ feelings about their experience in guildhall
Square was also completed at the end of the subsequent interview (see Appendix B).
Analysis focused on the participants in the deception study and their movement paths
were mapped onto a plan of the square. The time of their entry and exit into the space was
documented as well as times at which they exhibited notable behaviours.
Mirrors: Glasgow Queen Street station
Sheets of silver mirror HIpS were installed into three freestanding poster frames at Queen
Street station (Figure 1). organizational safety concerns prevented the mirrors being placed
in a location that the researchers felt had the potential to inluence pedestrian low and
behaviour, so the frames were placed adjacent to each other between two sets of gates
leading to the station platforms (Figure 1).
In addition to the video data collection, researchers approached people standing on the
station concourse in the vicinity of the intervention to enquire if they had noticed the mirrors,
and if so what they thought the purpose of the mirrors might be. Due to the restrictions on
the location little awareness of the intervention was demonstrated by passers-by. This was
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Figure 2. Playful behaviour engaging with the intervention (left) tapeline at Kent; (right) maze at Warwick.
Table 1. Movement path of passers-by in relation to the maze intervention.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Across (disregard
intervention)
664
1079
1183
1034
Around (indirect
engagement)
810
773
609
742
Follow (direct
engagement)
61
40
25
28
Around & Follow
(percentage of
direct & indirect
engagement)
57%
43%
35%
43%
highlighted by the survey indings (n = 35) that found very few people noticed anything
unusual about the station or noticed the mirrors in particular. As a result, this intervention
was discounted from further analysis.
Findings
This section is organized around the three aims: (a) alter the low of pedestrian movement
through a space, (b) create zones of attraction and exclusion within the space, and (c) engage
people’s curiosity and elicit playful actions. In addition, the efect of cognitive load and
task-oriented activity became increasingly noticeable during the implementation of the
interventions and this is considered as an additional point.
Alter low
The studies showed that pedestrians altered their movement paths in response to the
interventions. This was observed for both loor marking (Figure 2) and mirror interventions.
There were two aspects to this. First, people deviated from their current movement path to
avoid and go around the intervention. Second, interventions were seen to elicit a temporal
deviation where people would stop for longer in the space than their current movement
suggested they were planning to.
It became apparent that the tapeline intervention acted as an anchor point for people engaged in other activities, e.g. talking on the phone; stopping on the line without
paying close attention to the intervention. This effect was also seen with the library
mirror study.
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Figure 3. Visual analysis indicating movement paths: (left) without floor vinyl, 9–11 am Tuesday 3 April;
(right) with floor vinyl in place, 9–11am Friday 20 April.
Table 2. Level of engagement with the floor vinyl in Portsmouth.
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
TOTAL
Walk across
25
30
28
22
18
37
48
208
Stop to read
82
65
109
40
53
38
57
444
Analysis demonstrated diferent levels of interaction with the interventions. Deviating
from the current path to follow the WBS maze or the tapeline was considered to be direct
engagement with the intervention. people alone and in groups engaged directly with the
maze in this way. This behaviour was only observed in a small number who passed-by.
Altering the movement path to walk around the loor markings was considered to indicate an indirect acknowledgement of the intervention. This behaviour only occurs if there
is an awareness of its presence. Taking into account the number of people who acknowledge the presence of the maze by walking around it shows a signiicantly higher level of
engagement (Table 1). on average, the movement of 45% of the passers-by was afected
by the intervention.
The text intervention in portsmouth supported the indings that interventions can elicit
deviation from routine movement paths. The analysis of a two-hour period in the morning
rush-hour on a weekday shows the extensive use of the square. However, with the intervention in place, there is a more limited use of the section of ground covered by the intervention,
creating an exclusion zone, with movement paths deviating at the edges of the loor vinyl
with very few people walking across (Figure 3).
As with the WBS maze, there were diferent levels of engagement with the loor text
intervention. Stopping to read the text was considered to be direct engagement with the
intervention. Those who showed a peripheral acknowledgement of the intervention deviated
from their current movement path so as to avoid walking on the text. Table 2 demonstrates
that the number of people stopping to read the text was consistently higher than the number
of people walking across the intervention.
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Figure 4. Examples of noticeable behaviour, people stopping to read the text (left) in Portsmouth; (right)
at the concourse of Glasgow Queen Street train station.
Another important point when considering the ability of interventions to alter movement
low is the efect of habituation, i.e. the decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated
exposure to it. In the WBS maze study, the number of people engaging with the maze consistently decreased across the four days the intervention was installed (Table 1). The efect of
habituation was also noted at the portsmouth text intervention. The number of pedestrians
walking across the loor markings was always greater than number stopping to read, but
a decreased engagement with the intervention over the time it was installed can be seen
(Table 2).
Zones of attraction and exclusion
The tape maze intervention illustrated how a loor-marking intervention can act as an
attractor for people. The library mirrors intervention indicated that mirrors can elicit a similar response. The text interventions in portsmouth and glasgow also attracted passers-by.
people who engaged with the intervention by reading the text were observed to stand still
as they did so (Figure 4). They usually stood at the base of the text in order to read it easily.
The text interventions also seemed to provide a zone of exclusion as people rarely stood
on the loor vinyl unless preoccupied by another activity. even at busy times the loor vinyl
would remain clear (Figure 5). For the high density, task focused context of the station, it was
a diferent situation, and analysis of the video time-sections indicated no easily discernible
efect. As the vinyl was located in front of the gates leading to the train platforms, people
crossed the loor vinyl regularly, especially going to or from the platform gates.
Elicit playful behaviour
The analysis revealed that the digital mirror intervention was successful in eliciting playful and noticeable, performative behaviour from the general public (Figure 6), e.g. waving
to the camera. This type of response was also observed in response to the library mirror
intervention.
Following the loor markings of the tapelines and maze was considered playful and noticeable behaviour. Both interventions were successful at eliciting this behaviour, although the
number of people who engaged was low. The maze intervention also revealed a diferent
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Figure 5. Example of the mapping of movement around the intervention. Dots denote people standing,
whereas arrows denote people walking towards the direction of the arrow. Vinyl provided zone of
exclusion for stationary people.
Figure 6. Mirrors eliciting noticeable behaviour (left) in Portsmouth, (right) in Kent.
form of noticeable behaviour as people deviated from their movement path to walk around
the maze. Analysis of the text interventions at portsmouth and glasgow clearly demonstrated
their ability to attract attention and elicit curiosity as people were observed stopping to read
the loor vinyl (Figure 4).
Efect of cognitive load and goal-directed activity
The hypothesis was that participants in the deception study connected to the WBS maze
intervention would be less likely to engage in playful activity due to their heightened cognitive load caused by participating in the study. In total, participants passed the maze 236
times during the deception study. participants followed the maze on only two occasions,
corresponding to 0.8%. For other users of the corridor direct engagement was signiicantly
higher (over 4% on the irst day, dropping to 1.4% on day four).
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Figure 7. Visual analysis indicating movement paths of (left) truth tellers, taking pictures for a tourist
brochure and (right) liars, taking photos for reconnaissance.
The analysis also highlighted the efect of goal-directed behaviour on non-primed passers-by, as people engaged with other tasks, such as delivery of goods, more often walked
across the intervention than around it. For the text intervention in glasgow, as with the tape
maze, there is inluence of goal-directed behaviour, reducing the level of engagement with
the intervention. people crossing, or standing on, the loor vinyl were often preoccupied with
another activity looking for tickets or friends, running for trains, managing luggage, watching
the departure boards, etc. It is speculated that this may help to explain the diferences in the
indings of the text intervention in portsmouth where a clear zone of exclusion was created, and
the text intervention in glasgow where passers-by were more inclined to cross the intervention.
The deception study associated with the digital mirror intervention in portsmouth ofered
the opportunity to examine potential diferences in behaviours arising from the task-oriented
activity of truth tellers and liars. The assumption was that all participants in the deception
study would be involved with their task to such an extent that they would exhibit less playful
behaviour in front of the digital mirror than members of the general public. In addition, the
authors speculated that liars engaged in taking photographs for hostile reconnaissance
purposes might not wish to draw attention to themselves by having their image appear
on the screen and so would stand on the edge of the area detected by the camera. None
of the participants were observed interacting with or acknowledging the intervention irrespective of whether they were asked to carry out benign or suspicious activities. This efect
of increased cognitive load and goal-directed behaviour is consistent with the results from
the previous studies.
Analysis of movement using image processing of the participants’ individual paths on
MATlAB revealed diferences in patterns of spatial movement between those engaged in
benign and suspicious activities, or else truth-tellers and liars. This is best understood when
evaluated against the geometry of the space. The square is contained between buildings on
three sides, with steps on the east and west leading to the guildhall and the council oices.
overlaying the loor plan with heat maps of pedestrian movement through the space,
it is noticeable that truth-tellers appear to use more of the available loor area, including
the stairs (Figure 7). Conversely, the liars have a tendency to concentrate their movement
nearer the steps by the guildhall. This may be seen as ofering better protection and avoiding
unnecessary exposure.
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This feeling of exposure was conirmed by the post-survey interviews. A total of 23% of
the participants mentioned the space coniguration inluencing feelings of exposure, with
a focus on the openness of the space and their location in the space. There was a moderate
correlation between their feelings of exposure and being watched (r = 0.579, p = 0.000),
which then inluenced their conidence to get the required photos (r = -0.176, p = 0.003).
overall, there were no statistically signiicant diferences between liars and truth-tellers, or
males and females in the survey responses. Another diferentiation between truth-tellers
and liars was dwell time, as the latter on average spent less time in the space.
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Relections
Using the concepts of triangulation, performance and low, the work described in this paper
presented the indings from seven experimental studies designed to disrupt routine use of
space stimulating triangulation, while eliciting noticeable behaviours encouraging performances from audiences, as well as inluencing pedestrian movement and altering low in
public spaces. This was done through the design and installation of interventions in diferent
spatial and operational contexts ‒ university campuses, a civic square and a railway station.
These temporary and low-cost interventions were around the themes of loor markings
and mirrors.
The four loor-marking installations and the library mirrors were all successful in disrupting
routine behaviour in the space by altering low. This occurred as people deviated from their
existing movement path as a result of being attracted to the intervention. In that respect
loor markings had a greater efect on movement low than mirror interventions. The text
interventions also elicited a temporal deviation as people were encouraged to linger in the
space for longer, increasing their dwell time.
The disruption of routine movement paths illustrated how interventions can draw people to a speciic area or establish a zone of exclusion. Zones of attraction and exclusion
are not mutually exclusive efects. Interventions were observed to provide anchor points
for passers-by that simultaneously attracted people towards the area of space where the
intervention was located, while also encouraging them to keep certain areas of the space
clear. The orientation of the text-based interventions ofers further opportunities to inluence
people’s position while they engage with the intervention.
All the interventions, with the exception of the mirrors in Queen Street station, were
successful in stimulating triangulation and performances from the public, eliciting noticeable behaviours, mainly in terms of playfulness and curiosity. playfulness can be deined as
behaviour that appears out of place, unnecessary for the norms of the space and is intended
to entertain or amuse. Behaviour such as following the maze (WBS) or waving (Big Screen;
library mirrors) was considered to be playful behaviour. Curiosity can be deined as behaviour that indicates a desire to know more about the intervention. Stopping to read the text
(portsmouth; glasgow) or walking over to look at the relections in the mirror (library mirrors)
were considered to be examples of curiosity.
Such behaviours have been explored extensively in arts projects to engage with audiences
in public spaces (Martin, Dalton, and Nikolopoulou 2013). luke Jerram’s (2008) ‘play Me, I’m
Yours’ placed upright pianos into a number of empty locations with the invitation to play
as people chose, while the ‘piano Stairs’ transformed the entrance to a Stockholm subway
station into a keyboard where each step produced a diferent note, next to the escalator
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(DDB Stockholm 2009). Both were familiar objects, placed in atypical locations drawing
people in, and inviting unprompted, unexpected behaviour, encouraging triangulation and
performances from members of the public. Furthermore, the ‘piano Stairs’ demonstrates
how alterations to a physical space can lead to dramatic changes in low behaviour, as the
following day passengers altered their routine path to exit the station, with 66% more people
than usual choosing to take the stairs instead of the escalator.
In analyzing the interventions two levels of noticeable behaviour were identiied ‒ direct
engagement and acknowledgement. The former can be deined as a deliberate response
to an intervention, while the latter as behaviour indicating the person is aware of it. Direct
engagement refers to, for example, following the maze, waving into the mirror or reading
the text, while an example of acknowledging an intervention is altering their path to avoid
the loor marking, without appearing to pay any attention to the intervention.
Direct engagement was a noticeable trend in all studies that elicited noticeable
behaviour, but only from a small percentage of passers-by. Acknowledgement, on the
other hand, was elicited from a high percentage of users of the space. When the two
are considered together then approximately half of the passers-by elicited a form of
noticeable behaviour.
In all cases, the greatest efect occurs when the interventions are unexpected, which can
be regarded as a pre-requisite to attract curiosity and playfulness. They may have a form that
contrasts with its surrounding environment (maze; loor vinyls; library mirrors), or present a
diferent experience of the space from usual (digital mirror Big Screen). Interventions that
blend in with their surroundings in terms of form and experience (glasgow mirrors) are less
likely to elicit noticeable behaviours from passers-by.
The ability of interventions to alter low and elicit noticeable behaviours is also afected
by personal factors, such as increased cognitive load and goal-directed behaviour. As the
maze intervention at WBS and the text intervention in glasgow demonstrated with increasing
goal-directed behaviour (whether it was carrying goods, running for the train or checking
departure boards), people were less likely to respond to the interventions by disrupting routine behaviour or displaying signs of curiosity or playful engagement. This was particularly
noticeable with the increased cognitive load imposed on the participants in the deception
studies (maze; digital mirror), where they were least likely to alter their path or engage with
the interventions directly or indirectly.
The interventions had a more noticeable efect in spaces that were not very crowded.
The text interventions in portsmouth and glasgow provided an opportunity to compare
near-identical interventions in locations with diferent spatial and social characteristics. The
analysis showed that the text intervention in portsmouth produced more noticeable disruption to movement paths and routine behaviour. outside peak periods of use in glasgow there
was a tendency for bystanders to engage with the text; however, this diminished rapidly as
the station became densely populated and the intervention less visible.
Another very important factor is the efect of habituation, which became noticeable
in all studies. The studies indicated that the potential for interventions to disrupt routine
behaviour, create zones of attraction and exclusion decreases with repeated encounter.
Findings from the loor-marking studies suggest that the number of people passing by who
are inluenced by an intervention drops after the irst two or three days. The same efect was
noted for the ability of interventions to elicit noticeable behaviour.
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Towards design guidelines
Analysis of the data can also support the provision of basic guidelines for designing interventions to disrupt pedestrian low and elicit noticeable behaviours to be used in security
planning alongside more authority-focused interventions.
The form and purpose of an intervention should be led by the characteristics of the
space in which it will be located. Understanding the ongoing activities is essential to suggest appropriate types of interventions that may disrupt existing activities without causing
unnecessary inconvenience.
Spatial and morphological characteristics of the space afecting existing movement
patterns, along with the temporal rhythm of activities, should be considered. The level of
exposure experienced in the space, the arrangement of the buildings and the access points
inluence movement in and through a space. The crowdedness of the space should also be
considered, as a successful intervention may become less efective in crowded conditions.
Interventions in crowded situations may need to be bolder in order to attract attention.
To have the greatest chance of altering movement low and eliciting noticeable behaviour,
it is vital that the position of the intervention in the space is considered carefully and sited
in a location with the potential to disrupt existing low. If the intervention is away from the
area of routine movement or activity, the opportunity for meaningful engagement is minimized. Heat mapping typical movement patterns can assist in understanding low norms.
To maximize the potential for disrupting movement and eliciting noticeable behaviours
the interventions should allow for multiple levels of engagement and interaction ‒ direct
and indirect. Direct engagement with the interventions was the least frequent; however,
combined with acknowledgement and indirect interaction (such as altering one’s movement path) the number of interactions provided a noticeable efect in the space through
the creation of attraction and exclusion zones.
For best results the intervention should be unexpected and avoid the vocabulary of advertising, which is ubiquitous in public spaces, hence reducing the opportunities for engagement minimizing its efect.
Finally, even with the most successful design intervention, habituation will occur. As a result,
within a few days the level of engagement will begin to decrease and eventually they will be
part of the wallpaper, as was also highlighted at the ‘Safer Spaces’ project emphasizing the
need for periodic change (Triggs et al. 2012). Such indings are consistent with more traditional
strategies, such as CCTV where initial deterrence fades with time (Scottish government 2009).
This suggests that interventions should be quick and easy to install and remove, allowing
for a rapid turnaround to ensure continuing engagement. As designing and producing an
intervention can be time-consuming, it may be useful to create interventions that can easily
be implemented in a number of locations in diferent contexts.
Conclusions
Using the concepts of triangulation, performance and low, the paper has extensively discussed
diferent ways to disrupt routine use of space, by inluencing pedestrian movement and altering low in public spaces, as well as eliciting noticeable behaviours. The control and shaping of
pedestrian movement recurs as an aspect of security planning for crowded spaces. Triangulation
can be viewed as an efective way to disrupt a state of civil inattention. It is argued that using
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art-inspired interventions as an alternative to an overt security approach invites people to perform
in a public space, disrupting routine use of space to act as a form of deterrence, and shaping the
low of pedestrian movement which is an integral aspect of security planning.
In the context of deterring hostile reconnaissance, design and art can create physical
examples of ‘unexpected questioning’ through playful disruption or a heightened sense of
being on view (Dalton et al. 2015). Such playfulness can be regarded as a key strength in
amplifying desired disruption efects in public spaces. This is particularly beneicial, considering that a constant presence of traditional performances of authority in public space
risks trivializing the impact of necessary future displays of security strength. Furthermore,
in a wider cultural context over-policing has the potential to foment radicalization, particularly among communities who feel particularly targeted because of a recurring, heightened
authority presence in the spaces they use (Fussey 2007). All the above highlight the growing
awareness of the necessity for security measures to be socially acceptable (Németh 2010)
and this design-led approach has a positive inluence on one’s experience of space, “dwelling
through mobility” (McFarlane 2011, 663), increasing social sustainability.
The beneicial impact of art in drawing people in public spaces, as identiied by Whyte
(1980) over 30 years ago, has been highlighted as an important component in security
design. The Arts Council argues that “good art encourages greater use of public places and
increases individuals’ sense of security” (Arts Council 1991, 17), while the Mayor’s oice in
New York advocates its use for a similar purpose (Russell et al. 2002). More recently, the UK
Home oice (2012) recommends attracting people to spaces using positive features, even
incorporating public art, as a key strategy for enhancing security.
In a position paper discussing the logic of fear in terrorism and counter-terrorism,
Braithwaite argued that counter-terrorism policy would be well served by “more proactively attempting to improve average participant enjoyment of public spaces” (Braithwaite
2013, 100). Could then investing in the potential of a space or the opportunities for
creating a sense of place through a design-led approach for counter-terrorism provide a
new era in security planning? An era of ‘sustainable security’ (Crampton 2013), in which
sustainability does not refer to the inancial viability of the scheme, but the basis for
human well-being.
Notes
1. Warwick Business school (WBS) were partners in the project.
2. The University of portsmouth were partners in the project.
Acknowledgements
The authors wish to express their gratitude to their partners, the Centre for the protection of National
Infrastructure, User perspectives, the BBC Big Screen Manager in portsmouth and the following teams
for allowing them to install the various interventions on their property: University of Kent, glasgow
Queen Street railway station and portsmouth City Council. The authors would also like to thank the
following research students at the University of Kent: Carolina Vassilikou for her assistance with the
statistical analysis and Christina Chatzipoulka for her assistance with the MATlAB analysis.
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Disclosure statement
No potential conlict of interest was reported by the authors.
Funding
This research was conducted as part of the engineering and physical Sciences Research Council
(epSRC) project ‘Shades of grey ‒Towards a Science of Interventions for eliciting and Detecting Notable
Behaviours’ [grant number: ep/H02302X/1].
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Appendix A: Questionnaire for the glasgow Queen Street station.
Where 1‒7 scale required: [Strongly disagree, Disagree, Somewhat disagree, Neither agree or disagree,
Agree, Strongly agree]
How many times a month do you come through glasgow Queen Street station?
[I’ve never been here before ‒ once a month or less ‒ once a week ‒ every day]
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I feel at ease in Queen Street station [1‒7]
I feel vulnerable in Queen Street station [1‒7]
I believe I am aware of what is happening around me at the station [1‒7]
Do you notice anything unusual about the station today / this week? (depending on how often they
come through the station ‒ interventions will be in place for one week)
Have you noticed this at the station today? [Show photograph of current intervention] Y/N
I felt curious when I was looking at the text/mirrors [1‒7]
I felt awkward when I was looking at the text/mirrors [1‒7]
What prevented you from going over and looking at the text / mirrors?
What do you think about the text / mirrors being at the station?
gender [M/F] Age group
Appendix B: Questions used during the guildhall Square surveys (as part of an extensive interview
with portsmouth University).
gender [M/F] Age group
When you irst entered the square, how conident were you that you could get the photographs you
needed?
[Not at all 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 very conident]
Did you feel that people were watching you while you were taking photographs?
[Not at all 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 very much so]
How exposed did you feel in the space?
[Not at all 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 very exposed]